Bolivia: Cordillera Real Trek Cybercast

Today we continued our stay in the village of Santiago de Okola, beginning our day with a cooking lesson. We made traditional quinoa flour fried chips that used to be prepared as a protein filled snack for long overland journeys.

Today is the 16th of July and a holiday commemorating the beginning of the Bolivian independence movement, so we spent the rest of the morning hiking to a nearby village in order to catch a bit of the ceremony and local festivities.

This afternoon we said goodbye to our wonderful host family in Santiago de Okola and are now on our way to our first mountain campsite at Alto Lojena and will begin the true trekking portion of our trip tomorrow.

Saludos!

Rachel