- Going down the mine
The crazyness in Bolivia continued after meeting up with my tour group in Sucre. Our next destination was supposed to be Potosi, but after locals had blocaded almost all of the roads out of Sucre in protest at something, Posted by jamesw in James' World Tour 2008 | Jun 25, 2008
- making music!
Posted by Sabrosa684 in Mother H | Jun 25, 2008
- Bolivia
So its back to Potosi. Which has some mines that we want to see. We're now all acclimatised with the altitude so don't feel so out of breath as before. We spend a little extra cash getting a better bus, Posted by spacebooth in Esther's Adventure | Jun 23, 2008
- bedroom fantasy
The last days in tupiza were spent mulling about with Mariano and Lucas (argentineans) and Eilleen and Joel (Aussie/Brit). We all hopped a bus to La Paz because they were headed for Peru and La Paz was the only other Posted by Sabrosa684 in Mother H | Jun 24, 2008
- Into Peru
So spent a day in La Paz doing nothing.
Then bed early and up even earlier for a bus to the pampas got a taxu to the bus stop and ended up taking half an hour when i was planning on Posted by Blue eyes in Jo in South America!! | Jun 22, 2008
- A salty birthday
The next to last day of the desert tour our group stayed in a hotel on the edge of the salar de uyuni - at 7,000 sq. miles the world's largest salt flat. We were all glad to finish somewhat Posted by Sabrosa684 in Mother H | Jun 21, 2008
- photos
http://www.flickr.com/photos/motherh/ Posted by Sabrosa684 in Mother H | Jun 20, 2008
- Swimming with piranhas
I arrived in Bolivia after taking the bus from Chile. La Paz is the world´s highest capital city and I was seriously feeling the altitude when I first arrived. Just walking up stairs gets you out of breath Posted by jamesw in James' World Tour 2008 | Jun 19, 2008
- Bolivia
Dear diario,
I have to pack my backpack and leave Rio. Obviously I'm dead excited about where I'm off to, but still I'm sad. Thiago takes me out for a nice lunch and then we head back to the flat to Posted by spacebooth in Esther's Adventure | May 28, 2008
- Singani
My second day in Tupiza was spent hiking around the area taking in the landscape - visited Cañon del Inca (with a small waterfall), Puerta del Diablo, and a valley of odd-shaped rocks names the valley of penises. Phallirific.
That night Posted by Sabrosa684 in Mother H | Jun 19, 2008
- Bolivian Salt Flats
After the coldest bus journies we have ever taken we arrived in the town of Uyuni. The start of the 3 day trip through Bolivias salt planes. We were meant to take a train but due to some political activity Posted by DanSue in Wonderlust | Jun 19, 2008
- The Bolivian Pampas
We stumbled up to the Indigena Tours office to greet Mark, Neils and Pip who we had partied with on Christmas Day back in La Paz..... a nice surprise. They had arrived with 3 more ozzies, 1 Posted by stephyd in Around the World in as long as it takes. | May 22, 2008
- Happy New Year 2008
It was a very lazy morning with a wee bit of a hangover, when we managed to pull ourselves out of bed we headed for our favourite cafe Casa De Campo for breakfast......... well lunch!
When we left Casa De Campo Posted by stephyd in Around the World in as long as it takes. | May 21, 2008
- La cordillera Real
Samedi 19 avril
La Paz - Campo alto Huayana Potosi 5130m
Rendez vous à l'agence. Je fais connaissance avec notre guide... Macario. Decidement, ca doit etre l'equivalent du Robert des Alpes!
Arrive mon compagnon d'ascension. Enfin MA compagnone Posted by flavienc in 5 mois sur la cordillère des Andes | Apr 23, 2008
- Bolivian Superstar
Posted by Sabrosa684 in Mother H | Jun 15, 2008
- A Dusty road out
My second day in beautiful Cafayate I visited a couple of vineyards - nothing special - just large scale operations - impersonal. Although I did find some excellent local basil cheese. I hiked to some petroglyphs on the edge of Posted by Sabrosa684 in Mother H | Jun 14, 2008
- Dynamite
Went for a bit of a salsa dance in Sucre. Managed to convince some bolivian boy to teach me to salsa but after 2 songs he got sick of my horrid sense of rhythum and the fact that i got Posted by Blue eyes in Jo in South America!! | Jun 13, 2008
- Protests
Got to the bus stop with my ticket al ready to go. Bumped into an australian guy there who laughed at me when i told him where i was going. Turns out all the buses are cancelled so after a Posted by Blue eyes in Jo in South America!! | Jun 9, 2008
- The Devil´s Mine
Darkness enveloped me as I stepped across the threshold. The air was dusty, dank and cold. Almost without warning, the tunnel narrowed and I began to feel claustrophobic. By this point, I felt that I had come too far to Posted by scholars08 in South American Adventures | Jun 8, 2008
- South America
Hola!
After leaving Fiji very early in the morning, we caught a flight to Auckland to wait a good few hours before our flight to Santiago, the capital of Chile, eventhough this was practically a 24hr journey, due to time differences Posted by TheBones in A Rum Diary | Jun 8, 2008
- The Salt Flats & Death Road!!
Hey All
Feels like it's been a while since we last posted but so much has been happening since then (apologies in advance, this could be a long post, but stick with it, we're interesting, honest :)).
When we last left Posted by SooMagoo in The Sharmagoo Odyssey | Jun 4, 2008
- Les villes coloniales boliviennes
Mardi 15 avril - Sucre
Ho la nuit difficile! Les bus boliviens sont bien moins confortables que ceux argentins..
C'est le bus basic, avec des sieges qui ne s'inclinnent pas et surtout des fenetres non hermetiques... Alors à 3000m d'altitude la Posted by flavienc in 5 mois sur la cordillère des Andes | Apr 18, 2008
- Grosse Stadt (by Lydia).
Insgesamt verbrachten wir fast zwei Wochen in dieser Stadt, welche steil, kalt, laut, spannend und voller Leben ist.
Die Stadt liegt in einem riesigen Kessel zwischen 3600 und 4000m.u. Posted by schmidus in the big trip. | Jun 6, 2008
- Grosser Berg (by Martin).
Nachdem wir eine schoene Tour auf den Cabeza del Condor (vgl. Eintrag "Das Matterhorn des Suedens") unternommen haben, entschieden José und ich, noch einen weiteren Zapfen zusammen anzugehen. Unser Augenmerk fiel auf die formschoene Pyramide des gut 6000 Posted by schmidus in the big trip. | Jun 4, 2008
- Photo Gallery
Hello, just a quick note to say we've uploaded some photos to our gallery. You can see them here:
http://www.travellerspoint.com/photos/gallery/users/The%20Pratts/
We'll start putting them in blogs at some point, if we can be bothered. Posted by The Pratts in Adventures of the Pratts | Jun 5, 2008