Description

Escape to the glorious past of a colonial town.

Private transfer from Sucre to Potosi. * Visit to the Casa de la Moneda (National Mint), where the procedure used for minting coins in different periods is seen (closed on Monday).

Visit to the Miner´s market and an active Colonial mine to see the way miners extract minerals with the same procedures used in colonial times.

Lunch at a local restaurant including full meal.

Visit to the Convent of Santa Teresa that besides its beauty is a great display of the religious life in the colonial times.

Return to Sucre at the end of the day.

*SIC includes public transport.

Description

Private transfer from Sucre to Potosi. Visit to the Miner´s market and an active Colonial mine to see the way miners extract minerals with the same procedures used in colonial times.

Lunch at a local restaurant including full meal.

Afternoon visit to one of the following:

• Visit to the Casa de la Moneda (National Mint), where the procedure used for minting coins in different periods is seen (closed on Monday).
• Visit to the Convent of Santa Teresa that besides its beauty is a must to understand the religious life in the colonial times.

Afternoon drive to Uyuni. If desired continue to Colchani where the Salt Hotels are.

*SIC programs include public transport.

Description

Immerse and understand the influence of Potosi in the world History of the 16th and 17th Century.

Day 1 Sucre - Potosí

Private transfer from Sucre to Potosi.

Lunch at a local restaurant including full meal.

Afternoon visit to the Casa de la Moneda (National Mint), where the procedure used for minting coins in different periods is seen. (closed on Monday).

Visit to the Convent of Santa Teresa that besides its beauty is a must to understand the religious life in the colonial times.

Visit to one of themost beautiful facades of Latin American churches: San Lorenzo followed by the tower of the Company of Jesus or the rooftop of San Francisco where the views are stunning.

Drive to Hacienda Cayara. Dinner and overnight at the Hacienda.

Day 2 Potosí - Uyuni

Breakfast at Cayara. Visit the Hacienda with its chapel and historical rooms: library, chapel, courtyards.

Drive to Potosi and visit to the Miner´s market and an active Colonial mine to see the way miners extract minerals with the same procedures used in colonial times.

Lunch at a local restaurant.

Afternoon drive to Uyuni seeing on route the beautiful Altiplano landscape, with llamas feeding in the ‘bofedales’, small areas with a microclimate that allows the growth of fresh grass.