www.discoveringbolivia.com Michael Blendinger Nature Tours offers 14Days/13Nightsof Birdwatching Light in 4WD while sight-seeing Natural and Cultural Patrimonies of the Central and Western Bolivia. Chaco, Valleys, Cloud Forests and Puna. From Santa Cruz to Samaipata, Comarapa, Siberia, Totora, Sucre, Potosí, Uyuni, Coipasa, Sajama, Urmiri, ending in La Paz. Day 1: we will visit the close County Park Lomas de Arena. Its open savannas, chacoan thorn-scrub, gallery forests, marshy wetlands features birds like White-bellied Nothura, Whistling Heron, Southern Lapwing, Blue-winged Parrotlet, Golden-collared Macaw, Guira Cuckoo, White-eared Puffbird, Toco Toucan, White-wedged Piculet, White Woodpecker... Day 3: in Mataral, where we will bird the path to a shelter with fine rock paintings and Vampire-bats, finding may be Dusky-legged Guan, King Vulture and surely Blue-crowned Parakeet, White-bellied Hummingbird, Red-tailed Comet, Spot-backed Puffbird, White-fronted Woodpecker, Narrow-billed Woodcreeper... Day 5: We leave early to go deeper in the Sehuencas protected area, where we enjoy streams and white water rivers inhabited by Torrent Duck and White-capped Dipper, adding to our trip a scenic outdoors breakfast, good pictures and perhaps fresh trout for lunch, that we can prepare here or in Totora. In the afternoon we will walk up and down Totora, charming and bucolic town of colonial architecture that is worth to know... Day 7:Sucre stands out with several historical buildings, museums and convents. We visit the ASUR Textiles Museum, well-known for the exhibition and selling out of knitted pieces from the Jalca and Candelaria cultures. The best textile pieces in Bolivia are precisely those of Potolo and Maragua, coming from the near Los Frailes Mountain Range. Also included are visits to the domed roofs of San Felipe de Neri Closter and to La Recoleta Museum. Alternatively the curious ones should visit Cal Orck´o, to see thousands of tracks left by 150 different dinosaurs 68 million years ago. Day 9: we head to Colchani on our way to cross through the middle off the biggest salt reservoir of the world (over 1.000 km2 surface and 0.5 km deep) and the most unique natural attraction in Bolivia. Iin Cuquisa we can enjoy the birds at the shore, like Andean Goose, Andean Flamingo, Andean Avocet, Puna Plover, etc. or climb by car or foot the Tunupa volcano, getting Rufous-Bellied Seedsnipes and a lookout over all these immaculate whiteness for the last time, visiting different ruins and burial places or chullpas, some including mummies. Day 11: In the morning, if the condition of the roads allows it, we will visit the marshy land of the Chipayas. This culture lives in beehive shaped adobe huts, they dress coarse woolen clothes, they speak a unique and very old language and they still hunt like centuries ago flamingos and other birds with their boleadoras (stone tipped slings)... On the way to Sajama Nat. Park we probably spot Lesser Rheas, Andean, Ornate and Puna Tinamous, Diademed plover, Puna Snipe, Slate-colored, Giant and Horned Coot, Plain-mantled Tit-spinetail, D´Orbigny´s Chat-tyrant, Cinnamon-bellied, Plain-capped, White-fronted and Puna Ground-tyrants, White-winged Diuca-Finch, Puna Yellow-finch and Red-backed Sierra-finch. ... continues...

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