Amateur Traveler episode 821. Today the Amateur Traveler talks about salt flats and desert,

silver mines and colonial cities, skyways, llama fetuses, and bowler hats as we go to Bolivia.

Welcome to the amateur traveler.

I'm your host Chris Christensen.

Let's talk about Bolivia.

I'd like to welcome to the show Jane Deere, who is a travel rider who's coming to us from

the only way is not Essex.com and we're gonna talk about that later for sure.

Jane, welcome to the show.

Thank you very much, Chris, for having me.

And you come to talk to us about Bolivia.

I have, yes, earlier this year

2022 I did a six month journey through South America from Argentina right up to Columbia. It was a trip that I started in 2020 and the rest is history on that one.

Like so many trips, yes. Yes. So I did spend five months there but didn't get beyond Chile.

So I went back to finish my trip and I finally got to beautiful Bolivia on this trip.

A friend of mine, a friend from school had told me it was

her favorite country of all time and she's visited over a hundred countries in a bid to do

the 197 which is every country in the world.

So I was absolutely intrigued because she clearly is a serious traveler,

because if you've visited over 100 countries and delivery is your favorite, there must be something very good about it, very special about it.

And I don't have favorite countries. I've visited about 85 countries but I don't have favorite countries because I see

unique and wonderful things in every country I go to.

Also some trials and tribulations obviously, but I find it very hard to actually say, oh yes, this is a country that I favour over another, but I have to say I did love Bolivia. I spent three weeks traveling through Bolivia.

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