Destination: Bolivia
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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
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
Fri, 13 Feb 2009 | By k-lero | Views [398] | Comments [11]
Que ganas tenía de llegar a Bolivia! Esperaba este cambio cultural, encontrar verdadera diferencia con "mi mundo", llegar a la estación de autobús y tener que sortear innumerables vendedores de boletos que te tratan de convencer, subir a un ... Read more >
Mon, 9 Mar 2009 | By nickandlaina | Views [367] | Comments [7]
La Paz is an awesome city, however let me backtrack to where I left off. After leaving Sucre, we headed to Potosí (I had to pee so bad on the bus ride) to do a tour of Cerro Rico, the richest silver mine in the world. Getting into Potosí it was evident ... Read more >
Fri, 29 May 2009 | By iainjosim | Views [169] | Comments [7]
The ‘little altitude sickness’ we mentioned in our last entry turned out to be a bit more than that for Jo. She’s fine now, but spent almost three days in bed with altitude sickness and stomach ‘issues’ before calling a doctor at 1am and being admitted ... Read more >
Tags: la paz, altitude sickness, hospital
Mon, 30 Mar 2009 | By steffen_graz | Views [276] | Comments [6]
Hola Chicos y chicas, nach einer erlebnisreichen Busfahrt (siehe Bericht Paraguay) bin ich nun seit 6 Tagen in Bolivien. Und mein Gefühl sagt mir: „Hier bist Du richtig!“ Nach einer fast 20 stündigen Busfahrt kam ich in Santa Cruz, der größten Stadt ... Read more >
Tags: bolivien, santa cruz, samaipata, cochabamba
Sun, 13 Apr 2008 | By alpiner84 | Views [382] | Comments [6]
Location: La Paz, Bolivia, at a mere 11,942 feet Mood: Relaxed and still in disbelief Most recent meal: Pancakes! Hallelujah for pancakes! Well, folks, I have climbed the mountain. Just shy of 20,000 feet (6,088 m), Huayna Potosi is the most ... Read more >
Sat, 21 Feb 2009 | By nickandlaina | Views [382] | Comments [5]
Waking up at 8 was not too much of a challenge, we are finally headed to Salar Del Uyuni! We walked over to our tourcompany and mat the people who we would spend the next 3 days with. 5 Brasileanos, an Aussi, a Brit, and a girl from the USA. We all ... Read more >
Mon, 28 Jul 2008 | By caspar | Views [395] | Comments [5]
“O, o, o,
Even rustig ademhalen
O, o, o,
Lijkt alsof het regent als altijd
Maar het regent, en het regent zonnestralen...
Een week geleden, in een park in Amsterdam
Had 'ie z'n leven overzien en schrok zich lam
Hij was een man wiens ... Read more >
Wed, 13 May 2009 | By iainjosim | Views [192] | Comments [5]
We’re in Tupiza, Bolivia after an amazing three-day 4x4 trip across the Altiplano and Salt Flats from San Pedro de Atacama in Chile. The scenery in this area is crazy (we really need to find somewhere ugly for a few days so we can appreciate the landscapes ... Read more >
Tags: bolivia tupiza altiplano
Mon, 13 Apr 2009 | By kaplan | Views [251] | Comments [4]
En las fronteras siempre te encuentras situaciones de lo más imprevisible. Esta vez se trataba de un grupo de 25 brasileños evangelistas, todos ellos muy simpáticos... y dos de ellas con capacidad para ganar el concurso de Miss Mundo sin despeinarse.... Read more >
Tags: cosasquenadatienenquever
Mon, 9 Nov 2009 | By baba | Views [77] | Comments [3]
After a quite chaotic organization I leave La Paz on Wednesday together with the two guides Nolberto and clown Carlos, the cocinero Marcial and the two other mountain fans James and Didier. We spend four really good days in the mountains, having good ... Read more >
Tags: sajama, climbing, mountains
Wed, 25 Feb 2009 | By nickandlaina | Views [187] | Comments [4]
Our first stop in Bolivia, outside the Salar is a little town called Uyuni. We finished off our 3 day trip across the desert and wound up in at a small residencia (like a hostel) in a single room, with a private bathroom right by the main strip in ... Read more >
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
Sun, 1 Mar 2009 | By nickandlaina | Views [302] | Comments [3]
So we arrived into Sucre right as the sun was peeking up over the mountains. Already from the description, I know that Sucre was described as the “White City”, “La Ciudad Blanco”. Even though is was barely light out, I could tell that all the buildings ... Read more >
Fri, 19 Jun 2009 | By thebigtrip | Views [218] | Comments [3]
After crossing from Bolivia at 7am we had a eight hour wait for the train to Tupiza. The Bolivian border town is a dirty, dusty and very basic town. The wait was long and cold; the food was bad and we were wrecked. We eventually got the train ... Read more >
Tags: salt flats, bolivia
Fri, 3 Jul 2009 | By thebigtrip | Views [173] | Comments [3]
On Monday we flew to Rurrenabaque (Rurre), a small town at the edge of the Amazon. The flight from La Paz was an experience… The plane was a turbo prop plane and it was tiny. There were only 19 seats in single row on the plane. It was so small ... Read more >
Tags: amazon, pampas, wildlife
Mon, 9 Jun 2008 | By bagen | Views [493] | Comments [3]
FIRST: It is really REALLY hard to do the past month of our travels any real justice! Mostly I think I`ve just succeeded in sounding like a bit of a schmuck! The photos will do a MUCH better job I`m sure... and we`ve finally got them uploaded!! YAY!! ... Read more >
Sat, 21 Feb 2009 | By k-lero | Views [448] | Comments [6]
Seguimos con el periplo boliviano! Jonathan, Holly y yo continuamos camino hasta Uyuni, en el suroeste del país; allí estuvimos 3 días recorriendo su famoso Salar; de hecho la zona colinda con Atacama (Chile), donde ya estuve hace unos 3 meses, ... Read more >
Tue, 4 Mar 2008 | By marsrimbaud | Views [314] | Comments [3]
Son las 12 y pico de la noche. Estoy en la agencia desde las 8 y media de la mañana, trabajando contra reloj para dejar todo listo. Campañas terminadas, avisos escritos, spots preproducidos. Estoy tan ansioso por el viaje que no termino de sentirme cansado ... Read more >
Tags: The Planning Phase
Sat, 20 Oct 2007 | By vietnamviking | Views [239] | Comments [3]
I had no idea that desert landscapes could vary so much. Now I know. Last time I wrote, we were in Uyuni, a small town in southern Bolivia. From there, we set off on a 3-day tour of the desert in a bright red 4x4. Our driver and guide was Mario, who ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Mon, 23 Feb 2009 | By hercules | Views [170] | Comments [3]
Once we got to San Pedro de Atacama we started looking for a company for our 3 day trip of the Salar del Uyuni. We ended up at the tourist information center reading reviews on the different companies. Most of the reviews involved the drivers starting ... Read more >
Tags: uyuni, salt, altitude sickness
Thu, 29 Oct 2009 | By baba | Views [97] | Comments [2]
After eigth days and many passes, cold nights, very sandy kilometers, windy and sunny hours, a party in the desert with a crazy Dutch couple on the tandem, some Pringels, cookies and chocholate bars later I have safely and healthy arrived in San Juan.... Read more >
Fri, 30 Oct 2009 | By franzi_tina | Views [86] | Comments [2]
In Bolivien verbrachten wir zwar nur 10 Tage, aber es war bisher das Highlight unserer Reise. Buntes Treiben in La Paz, die groesste Salzwueste der Welt, riesige Kakteen, gruene, rote und blaue Lagunen mit tausenden von Flamingos, ein aktiver Vulkan, ... Read more >
Wed, 13 May 2009 | By kaplan | Views [65] | Comments [3]
Sé que nada tiene que ver y que seguramente para muchos restará este blog ese caracter netamente cultural y en otras palabras "más fino" que hasta ahora tenía. Pero uno tiene sus debilidades y, quizá, se potencian cuando esta lejos de sus referentes.... Read more >
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