Destination: Bolivia

Gallery: 24.08.08 Uyuni

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 | By matsmith | Photo Gallery

Potosi

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 | By matsmith | Views [557]

What can i say about Potosi? It's a town built around silver mines, which the Spanish bled dry and now the people here struggle to make a living mainly mining whatever they can find left in the mountain. The main attraction here is the tour of the ... Read more >

Bolivian road blocks and protests

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 | By matsmith | Views [2396] | Comments [2]

We´d heard about the Bolivian habit of protesting, and even seen evidence of it in Sucre and our guide had warned us that its very unusual to have a trip untouched by demonstration and today we had our share....... We knew about ... Read more >

Tags: blockade, cattle truck, protest, strike, taxi, trees

Gallery: 23.08.08 Potosi

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 | By matsmith | Photo Gallery

Gallery: 22.08.08 Sucre to Potosi

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 | By matsmith | Photo Gallery

Sucre - capital of Bolivia

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 | By matsmith | Views [871]

This city is like no other capital city I´ve seen. It's small, pretty, fairly quiet and clean! Perhaps this is because the government is in La Paz, and the centre of commerce too. The only thing which upset this idyllic city was ... Read more >

Tags: ´t-shirt, dinosaur park, joyride cafe

Gallery: 20-21.08.08 Sucre

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 | By matsmith | Photo Gallery

Crazy Cochabamba

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 | By matsmith | Views [693]

We arrived in Cochabamba not really knowing what to expect from this town, as it isn´t even mentioned in one of our guide books. It has the biggest Jesus Christ statue in the world (bigger than the one in Rio) but I heard that the one in Rio ... Read more >

Gallery: 17-19.08.08 Cochabamba

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 | By matsmith | Photo Gallery

Gallery: 14-16.08.08 La Paz

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 | By matsmith | Photo Gallery

Life in La Paz

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 | By matsmith | Views [473]

We´ve been enjoying life in La Paz, as for the first time in ages we´ve spent four nights in one place! Yesterday we went to a spinning class with Alison and then had a cuban lunch, followed by walking round the markets. In the evening ... Read more >

First day in La Paz

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 | By matsmith | Views [585]

Today was the first day in La Paz, and it started quite well for us. We went on a bus tour of the city in the morning and visited the Moon Valley. It is a weird place, it looks like a cave with the roof taken off!! It hasn't rained there for 50 years ... Read more >

Tags: worlds most dangerous road

Minibus, coach, bus, ferry, bus!

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 | By matsmith | Views [1267]

Our journey to Bolivia started at 7.15am, where we were loaded into a minibus which took us to the bus station. I think the driver was crazy, and he did actually force himself onto the wrong side of the road, rather than use the part of the road going ... Read more >

Tags: bolivia, copacabana, ferry, la paz, peru

Orange trees, steak, cacti and dodgy buses....!

Sat, 9 Aug 2008 | By the-haines-rtw | Views [841] | Comments [1]

Hi everyone, Again, sorry it´s been a while but we´re now in Bolivia where the internet isn´t great as expected so here goes with our trip from Mendoza, Argentina to Potosi, Bolvia...! We spent a couple of days in La Rioja from Mendoza which is a nice ... Read more >

The Most Dangerous Road in the World!

Sat, 2 Aug 2008 | By courta104 | Views [416]

Sam and I took the bike ride down the most dangerous road in the world that we were supposed to do several days earlier with Rochelle and Gabe before I got sick.  We started about an hour outside La Paz and descended more than 3,600m (11,800ft)in about ... Read more >