BOLIVIA - Exclusive Photo Workshop

On The Tracks of Che Guevara

Find your own photographic voice and create a unique portfolio as we will visit historic

places like La Higuera, where fame guerilla fighter Che Guevara was caught and killed.

PHOTOGRAPHERS leading this tour:

Otto von Münchow and Sven Creutzmann

WHEN: 2024, Semptember and October available, individual workshop, travel dates by arrangement / Please DM

LOCATIONS: Samaipata - Vallegrande - La Higuera

PARTICIPANTS: 6 max

This is a workshop created and organized by Blue Hour Photo Workshops

Participant Testimonial

“The amazing engagement in every student and every picture, at all times of the day. Say no more!”

Inger Ellen Eftevand Orvin, workshop with Sven, Blue Hour Bolivia 2019

La Higuera

Susana Osinaga

Guadalupe

Susana Osinaga

Laundry where Che's corpse was shown to the press, Vallegrande

La Higuera

Picacho

Laundry where the corpse of Che was shown to the press

Erich Bloessl

Vallegrande

Morgue, Vallegrande

Julia Cortez

LOCATIONS

HIGHLIGHTS:

On the tracks of history, you will be able to take amazing pictures in La Higuera, where fame Cuban-Argentinian guerilla fighter Che Guevara spent his last night before he was shot dead, you will visit the Laundry in the Señor de Malta Hospital in Vallegrande , where the corpse of Che Guevara was presented to the world as proof that he was really dead. We will meet eye witnesses to those historical events and will visit the place where his body was buried for 30 years. But this trip is not only about the tracks of Che Guevara. You will visit amazing places in their own rights.

LOCATIONS: La Higuera, Vallegrande, Samaipata, Santa Cruz

LENGTH: 11 days

PARTICIPANTS: max 6

Professional Guidance

Guided by Otto von Münchow and Sven Creutzmann and a crew of assistances you will be able to capture amazing photos. Every day. We’ll be photographing alongside you on the highest professional level. We will also help you edit your photos and give invaluable feedback.

ITINERARY:

Day 1: Arrival in Santa Cruz

Introduction and welcome dinner

Day 2: Departure to Samaipata

Our caravan of jeeps will leave Sana Cruz heading into the mountains for Samaipata. Beautiful landscape along the road.

Day 3: Photographing in Samaipata

Samaipata is a nice little village, a very good first stop to get acquainted with the rural landscape and its indigenous people

Day 4: Departure to Vallegrande

We will driven even deeper into the mountains.

Day 5: Photographing in Vallegrande

Vallegrande is the village, where the corps of Che Guevara was presented to the world as proof that he was really dead, in the laundry of the Señor de Malta hospital. We will meet eye witnesses to those historical events and will visit the place where his body was buried for 30 years.

Day 7: Departure for La Higuera

We are heading towards the highlight of this trip. La Higuera is a very small village with a population of some 110 people, living in 30 huts, mostly indigenous Guaraní people. We will be staying at the former telegraph office which was the headquarter of the Bolivian military as they were hunting down Che Guevara and his men. The Casa del Telegrafista is just 100 meters away from the rural school in which Che Guevara was shot and killed on October 9th, 1967.

Day 8: Photographing in La Higuera

We will shoot in La Higuera and its surroundings, like in the Quebrada. del Churro, where Che was captured.

Day 9: Photographing in La Higuera

Day 10: Photographing in La Higuera

Day 11 : Departure for Santa Cruz and farewell dinner

Leaving the mountains, heading back for Santa Cruz. Farewell dinner.

Day 12: Flying home