Destination: Bolivia
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Sat, 2 Sep 2006 | By mcgurk77 | Views [8625] | Comments [4]
I think the photos speak volumes about this ride. In Bolivia a hour drive out of La Paz, it started up at 4700m, freezing cold with a 65k decent to 1400m in the jungle to Yalumba. Starting the ride rugged up, fleeced up on tarmac. Smooth road that you ... Read more >
Tags: Adrenaline
Sun, 7 Oct 2007 | By netsy19 | Views [6901] | Comments [1]
Breakfast, then anaconda hunting. Translation: three hours of wandering thru the pampas (read grass and swamp) in “wellies” looking for a snake. Heather, part of the hard drinking couple from England (they’d both have a beer around 10am) ... Read more >
Tags: The Great Outdoors
Fri, 2 Jun 2006 | By willlou | Views [5532]
After another trek in the Cusco area (look at the pictures under the Photo Gallery "Cusco to Lamy Trek", a fill description of this trek can be found at http://journals.worldnomads.com/will/ ) we got a bus south to Lake Titicaca, the world´s ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
Mon, 27 Feb 2006 | By ldeutch | Views [4831] | Comments [1]
So, after missing all the other Carnaval celebrations in Ecuador and Peru, by what seemed like a a few days.. we decided to make the serious effort to hightail it through Peru to make it to Bolivia for the Carnaval celebrations in Oruro ( http://www.... Read more >
Tags: Culture
Fri, 19 Feb 1999 | By simon_monk | Views [4464] | Comments [3]
The browns, oranges and reds of la Paz are swiftly replaced by lush greens as the road to the Amazon drops off the side of the Andes, descending over 3km in about two hours.
Squeezed between sheer walls of rock, dripping with moss and fern, and ... Read more >
Tags: misadventures, danger, death, insane, amazon, la paz, truck, bus, rainforest, altitude
Mon, 19 Jun 2006 | By will | Views [3300] | Comments [6]
Uyuni is the kicking off point for trips into the Salar de Uyuni, the largest salt pan in the world and a must on most visitors’ itineraries to Bolivia . The trip out to the lake also usually includes the dramatic landscape to the south of the lake, ... Read more >
Tags: Travel Tips
Thu, 11 Oct 2007 | By netsy19 | Views [3157] | Comments [2]
So when it says side effects might be sun sensitivity, I immediately think, not me. But… that doesn’t mean I don’t take the proper precautions. I put on SPF 60+ just incase. Now, I know what you’re thinking, “60+, what the hell, I didn’t ... Read more >
Tags: Doctors, hospitals & health
Tue, 20 Jun 2006 | By will | Views [2935] | Comments [3]
Rurrenabaque in the North East of Bolivia has become a major backpacker’s center for organized trips into the jungle and pampas that surround the town. For many travelers a Pampas trip, along with biking the Death Road and taking a tour on the Salar ... Read more >
Tags: Observations
Mon, 19 Jun 2006 | By willlou | Views [1918]
We have had a busy couple of weeks traveling around the central area of Bolivia. From La Paz we went to the city of Potosi, at 4000 meters the highest city of its size in the world, bright and cool most of the time. A couple of hundred years it was ... Read more >
Tags: The Great Outdoors
Sat, 23 Sep 2006 | By clarinette | Views [1587]
Last week, after having my flights cancelled two days in a row (Grrrrrr!) I finally made it to Rurrenabaque in northern Bolivia which is the stepping point into the spectacular Madidi National Park and the Pampas (which are savannah swamp land with ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Wed, 6 Sep 2006 | By clarinette | Views [1351]
Well, on Sunday I took the plunge and mountain biked down the "Most Dangerous Road in the World". After riding down it on a bike at break neck speed, I can tell you for sure that it is no exageration. The 44km stretch of road between La Paz ... Read more >
Tags: Adrenaline
Thu, 8 Jun 2006 | By will | Views [1333]
Posati which at 4000 meters is the highest city/town of it's size in the world. At one time it was the richest city in the world, it's wealth built on the conical hill Cerro Rico (Rich Mountain) which dominates the town and which was mined for it's ... Read more >
Tags: Observations
Sat, 14 Oct 2006 | By clarinette | Views [1298] | Comments [3]
Just got back from a 3 day tour to the Uyuni salt flats and beyond yesterday... Was a pretty amazing place, almost at times like being on Mars or in a Salvador Dali painting... I arrived in Uyuni after a fairly unimpressive 10 hour night bus trip (the ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Fri, 10 Feb 2006 | By true-claims-stories | Views [1249] | Comments [1]
My Grandfather died, following a stroke five weeks previously. I had been travelling in South America, and felt compelled to return when I heard of his death. I was in Bolivia when I heard the news, and so I bought a return airfare from La Paz to London ... Read more >
Tags: family, true claim stories
Sat, 7 Oct 2006 | By vegemite_vagabond | Views [1176] | Comments [4]
The flight North to `Rurre`, in a plane seating 14, was rather eventful. Whether it was the size of the plane, the weather conditions, or the pilot, I dont know. However, at least three people were sick, and another 10 terrified. In fact, it seemed ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Thu, 4 Oct 2007 | By netsy19 | Views [1086] | Comments [1]
Yes, Death Road. Doesn´t that sound nice... And some how this morning I found myself being driven to the top of this road (the most dangerous road in the world) put on a mountain bike (oh, not any mountain bike... one that didn´t fit me and whose back ... Read more >
Tags: Adrenaline
Thu, 22 Nov 2007 | By rayen | Views [1084]
Seit 1545 wird im Cerro Rico, an dessen Fuss sich Potosí befindet, Silver abgebaut. Jahrhundertelang wurden in Potosí spanische
Münzen geprägt. Ironie der Geschichte: bolivianische Münzen werden
heute in Spanien geprägt. Silber gibt es nur noch
wenig ... Read more >
Thu, 15 Jun 2006 | By mcgurk77 | Views [1075] | Comments [4]
Wow, with our arrival into Cusco on Corpus Christi, spaced out from our 12 hour bus jouney from Arequipa it was like landing on the moon. In the words of the great Lional Richie "Fiesta forever, come along and sing along, all night long............ Read more >
Tags: Party time
Tue, 6 Dec 2005 | By tjwhale | Views [1007] | Comments [7]
Hello friends and family, We have yet to tell you about our 4 day jeep trip through the Bolivian salt lakes. The trip really started with our 13 hour bus ride to Uyuni from La Paz. I had just gotten out of the dentist, finding out that my tooth was ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Tue, 1 Jul 2008 | By simonefrancis | Views [996]
TUESDAY NIGHT... Hooray!! I´m just outside Coroico!! I can breathe again... I can live again!!! The drive here, even though it was getting dark, was fantastic! Marcelo and Vicky run the organisation ´La Senda Verde´, which is a sanctuary for ... Read more >
Thu, 18 Oct 2007 | By netsy19 | Views [976] | Comments [1]
This is the beginning of the ordeal to get from Tupiza to Salta … Not really all that far, and I get to leave Bolivia and enter Argentina (hopefully not quite as dusty) So my options from Tupiza to the border town of Villazon ... Read more >
Tags: planes trains & automobiles
Fri, 25 Nov 2005 | By tjwhale | Views [958] | Comments [2]
Hello All. I write to you today from the shores of Lake Titicaca in Copacabana, Bolivia. It has been a LONG time since we last wrote so we will split it into two entries. We´re all about time savings as we begin the rest of our South American journey ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
Sat, 16 Jan 1999 | By simon_monk | Views [934]
The thin atmosphere and strong shadows sharpen the pink, blue, red, orange and green that paint Cerro Rico as it towers over Potosi. Silver, zinc, lead and tin, plus 21,000 men still toiling to extract it.
Crates of dynamite mix with sacks of cocoa ... Read more >
Tags: philosophy of travel, freedom, colonialism, poverty, history
Thu, 6 Nov 2008 | By eoghancito | Views [891] | Video
So up we got the following morning for what has to be admitted as a rushed breakfast with the goal of not being late for the tour of the salt flats and Bolivian Altiplano. We had chosen a 2 night 3 day tour ending in San Pedro de Atacama, Chile as other ... Read more >
Tags: salt flats, desert, volcano, 4x4, rum, geyser, hot spring
Wed, 14 Nov 2007 | By rayen | Views [869]
Die Hauptstadt Boliviens. Der Alte Teil der Stadt ist in einem Talkessel auf 3,700m Höhe und es wird Spanisch gesprochen, La Paz - El Alto befindet sich einige Höhenmeter darüber, auf über 4.000m und es wird vorwiegend Aymara gesprochen, eine der ältesten ... Read more >
