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Welcome upon arrival and transfer to the hotel, your room will be available on arrival (early check-in), breakfast, lunch at a restaurant, afternoon visit of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Santa Cruz de la Sierra is the largest and most influential city in Bolivia, located in the east of the country. Also known simply as Santa Cruz, this city is an important economic, cultural and commercial centre with a unique history and atmosphere. The city is a commercial and financial hub, known for its growing economy and its global market-oriented outlook. The 'Plaza 24 de Septiembre' is the heart of the historic centre of Santa Cruz, surrounded by colonial buildings and ancient trees. The city offers a variety of restaurants, cafés, shops and shopping centres, reflecting the vitality of urban life., visit of luoghi e dei monumenti più risaltanti come l’antico quartiere con i suoi marciapiedi esageratamente rialzati e circondati da portici. Al suo interno si trova la Piazza Principale e la Cattedrale di San Lorenzo, costruita nel 1609. In seguito, passeggiata per La Recoba, il mercato dell’artigianato. Accommodation Trasferimento porto - hotel o vv,

Breakfast, transfer to the airport, flight to Sucre (not included), arrival at Sucre, meeting with the guide, visit of the city, The administrative, political and religious centre of Bolivia during Spanish rule, is still officially the capital. A UNESCO World Heritage Site, Sucre is Bolivia's most refined a beautiful city, a masterpiece of immaculately preserved colonial architecture, full of elegant churches, mansions and museums. It’s also the market centre for the deeply traditional Quechua-speaking communities of the surrounding mountains, visit of museo tessile ASUR, che espone una mostra di tessuti indigeni. Il belvedere della Recoleta che domina tutta la città. In seguito, la Piazza Principale dove si può ammirare la facciata della cattedrale, la Prefettura, il Municipio e la “Casa de la Libertad” dove fu dichiarata l’Indipendenza della Bolivia. Proseguimento verso il parco Bolivar, dove si trova il Palazzo di Giustizia. Si conclude con la visita sui tetti del convento di San Felipe Neri per godere di una altra impressionante veduta della città, lunch at a restaurant. Accommodation trasferimento Palermo aeroporto - hotel zona Cefalù,

Breakfast, departure to, morning visit of, Potosí, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is the highest city in the world, 4100 m above sea level, on a desolate, windswept plain. The city owes its existence to Cerro Rico (Rich Mountain), the richest source of silver the world had ever seen: its mines turned Potosí into one of the world’s wealthiest and largest cities. In the early seventeenth century its population was 160,000, far bigger than contemporary Madrid, and equal in size to London. However, this wealth was achieved at the expense of the lives of millions of indigenous forced labourers and African slaves. Estimates of the total number who died over three centuries of colonial mining in Potosí run as high as nine million. Today it's a repository of colonial art and architecture., visit of “Real Casa de la Moneda” o Antica Zecca, uno dei pregevoli monumenti dell'America Ispanica, e dove i nativi e gli schiavi africani coniavano le monete con l’argento estratto dal famoso Cerro Rico, durante la dominazione spagnola. Si prosegue con una passeggiata per la Piazza Principale e le vie per ammirare le facciate delle chiese di San Lorenzo e San Francisco, lunch at a restaurant, in the afternoon, continue to Uyuni, arrival at Uyuni. Accommodation Baymont by Wyndham Cedar City - CHIUSO DEFINITIVAMENTE,

Breakfast, full day tour of Salar de Uyuni, The Uyuni Salt Flat, Salar de Uyuni in Spanish, 3,656 m asl, 10,582 square km, is not a lake in the conventional sense: though below there is water, its uppermost layer consists of a thick, hard crust of salt, capable of supporting the weight of a car. So harsh and inhospitable is this perfectly flat white expanse, with unbroken chains of snowcapped mountains lining the far horizon, that it’s easy to believe you’re on another planet. During the wet season, from December to April, it’s covered by a thin layer of water that forms a giant mirror, reflecting the sky so neatly that the line of the horizon disappears. In this extreme enviroment only tenacious ecosystems can survive, including colonies of cacti and other hardy plants and flocks of flamingoes. Equally hardy are the isolated communities of Aymara and Quechua campesinos. But the Salar is attracting the attention of the world for its vast reserves of untapped lithium and the Bolivian government is discussing options and feasibility for its extraction and production, visit Isola Incahuasi (prima erroneamente chiamata Del Pescado), situata nel cuore del Salar e popolata da cactus giganti. Dall’alto c’è una vista impressionante dell’area circostante along the journey, lunch during sightseeing, continue to Colchani, dinner at the hotel. Accommodation,

Breakfast, transfer to the airport, flight to La Paz (not included), arrival at, meeting with the guide, visit of the city, few cities in the world have as spectacular a setting as La Paz, hunched in a narrow canyon at over 3500 m above sea level. Congested and polluted, it is a city of stunning contrasts: church spires and office blocks in the downtown area, steep valley slopes covered by the ramshackle homes and the magnificent peak covered in ice of Mount Illimani. Though it is not the capital, La Paz is the political and commercial center of Bolivia, but always with a dual identity, the indigenous Aymara, that make up the majority of the population, and the European, visit of "Plaza Murillo", la antica Piazza d’Armi o maggiore, dove si vedono il congresso, il Palazzo Presidenziale e la Cattedrale. Poi, si prosegue fino al "Mercato delle streghe" dove si vendono tutti quegli elementi utilizzati per la medicina locale. Al termine discesa fino alla Chiesa di San Francesco, un gioiello dell'arte barocca mestiza, la cui facciata è decorata con motivi indigeni. Si scende fino alla Valle della Luna, situata a 12 km dal centro di La Paz, e il cui nome si deve all’aspetto lunare che ha assunto in seguito alle erosioni eolica e idrica delle fragili formazioni sedimentarie che formano una specie di stalagmiti, lunch at a restaurant, in the afternoon, continue to un indimenticabile viaggio in funivia, iniziando con una panoramica corsa sul teleférico. Scivola nel cielo in una cabina sospesa, immergendoti in un'esperienza di trasporto locale unica. Mentre sali, meravigliati davanti alla straordinaria vastità di La Paz, con il suo paesaggio urbano esteso e lo sfondo montuoso mozzafiato. Goditi viste panoramiche senza pari che mostrano la grandiosità della città e la sua bellezza naturale. Accommodation Pallas Hotel,

Breakfast, departure to, panoramic visit, The little town of Copacabana is the main Bolivian centre on Lago Titicaca, just a few kilometres from the Peruvian border and the most important Catholic pilgrimage site in the country, being home the revered image of the Virgen de Copacabana. You will see the ubiquitous "cholitas", the Aymara women dressed in voluminous skirts and bowler hats., departure to Isola del Sole con barca a motore, visit of Isola del sole, questo posto è molto conosciuto perché era un importante centro cerimoniale sul Lago Titicaca: qui si svilupparono le culture più avanzate del Sudamerica come i Chiripa nel 1200 AC, la civiltà dei Tiwanaku intorno al 1000 AC. La civiltà Inca fu l'ultima prima dell'arrivo degli Spagnoli, lunch at a restaurant, return to Copacabana. Accommodation Club Med Cancun All Inclusive,

Breakfast, departure to, less than 30 km from the southern shore of Lake Titicaca, the ancient ruined city of Tiwanaku is one of the most monumental and intriguing archeological sites in South America, now a UNESCO World heritage site. Founded some three millennia ago, Tiwanaku was the capital of a huge empire that lasted almost a thousand years and inspired the Inca civilization. Tiwanaku was a sophisticated urban ceremonial complex with great pyramids and opulent palaces painted in bright colours and inlaid with gold. At its peak the city was home to some fifty thousand people. Only a fraction of the site has been excavated., visita of museo regionale che ospita una collezione corrispondente a diversi periodi. Si prosegue con la visita del sito dove si possono veder gli edifici più significativi come la piramide di Akapana, costruita con 7 terrazze sovrapposte. Il tempio di Kalasasaya, al cui interno si possono osservare la famosa “Puerta del Sol” e monoliti che rappresentano sacerdoti indigeni. Il tempietto Semi-sotterraneo, con il suo cortile a quasi due metri sotto il livello normale del suolo, con le sculture di teste incastrate sullo i suoi muri, lunch at a restaurant, continue to La Paz. Accommodation Pallas Hotel,

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