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Delightful rural accommodation on a dairy farm with a museum and chapel close to Potosí.

More than just a hotel, this unique property is a rural hacienda in a fertile valley (at 3600m the altitude is 400m lower than Potosí, 30 minutes’ drive away, and therefore attractive to anyone wary of staying at high altitudes). It’s a dairy farm but also a museum housed in buildings which can trace their history back to 1557.

It has 8 small, comfortable, but certainly not luxurious guest rooms and serves simple home-cooked meals. The original owner was the Controller of the Royal Mint, and since then it has been passed down to various aristocratic families, the heirlooms of whom now adorn the walls of the main house. The library’s catalogued collection includes a wide range of volumes, some very old, in several languages.  Much of the furniture dates from the colonial period, and there’s an arms and artefact collection displayed its own gallery. There’s a separate chapel. So isolated is this spot that there is no public transport and electricity has to be provided by the farm’s own ancient generator.  

Bartolome, Galápagos

What our clients say

  • The flight with Amazonas felt v safe. The plane is brand new CRJ200 Bombardier, the staff is helpful and v efficient and the pilots seemed v highly skilled and trained.…

    JO, Borough Nov 2012
  • Across the Bolivian border was the long route which involved a four hour journey over a makeshift road with many potholes. However, the scenery was spectacular and I looked on…

    SG, Chigwell Sep 2011
  • Highlights: The trek and Bolivia in general.

    GN, Kingsbridge Jan 2016
  • Highlight: “Seeing the physical geography of Bolivia and visits especially the silver mine and the mint.” 

    KS Apr 2010
  • Most memorable experience: “The time we spent in Bolivia was amazing, despite the altitude sickness! The Uyuni salt flat was so beautiful and all the lagoons and mountains we saw…

    SC, Manchester Apr 2012
  • Most Memorable Moment?: Uyuni salt flats

    RH, Warrington Nov 2017
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