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Fri, 2 Feb 2007 | By thehappyeggs | Views [549]
Well the festival is in full swing – beer stalls line the streets and everywhere there are people in their finest dancing up a storm. Everyone has travelled for this huge festival celebrating Bolivia’s best saint (she appeared at Copacobana and ... Read more >
Tags: Party time
Sun, 28 Jan 2007 | By thehappyeggs | Views [508]
After a short 3 ½ hour bus trip and a quick stop at immigration at the border we arrived in Copacabana – not quite as hot as the song says but still gorgous right on the lake. There’s going to be a huge festiva here in a few days and the bands are ... Read more >
Tags: Food & eating
Wed, 17 Jan 2007 | By itchyfeet | Views [504]
Ok. It seems my preconceptions were justified and I was not doing Bolivia a disservice at all. Having sat in the station for 3 hours after arriving 4 hours late, our train finally leaves Uyuni at 6 in the morning. 7 1/2 hours late. It gets worse. We crawl ... Read more >
Tags: I should have known better!
Tue, 16 Jan 2007 | By itchyfeet | Views [488]
Our last day in Uyuni pretty much resembles all the others. Our suite has to be the poshest room we´ve ever stayed in. Its actually got a 3 piece suite and is big enough to get lost in. We bump into Ben from New Zealand and he sows the seed in our heads ... Read more >
Tags: planes trains & automobiles
Mon, 15 Jan 2007 | By itchyfeet | Views [492]
As expected, these days are dragging on a bit. There´s feck all to do in Uyuni and the internet is so slow that even trying to while away the time is frustrating. Stil, we have managed to organise a few things, including accommodation in Brazil. It gets ... Read more >
Tags: Relaxation
Sun, 14 Jan 2007 | By itchyfeet | Views [422]
The first of what are likely to be 3 prety boring days. This is due to the fact that we have to wait until Tuesday to get the train out of Uyuni. There´s gonna be a lot of internetting, eating and drinkng interspersed with with periods of doing precious ... Read more >
Tags: Relaxation
Sat, 13 Jan 2007 | By itchyfeet | Views [571]
After a shaky start (no hot water) we eat a decent breakfast (corn flakes!) and hit the road for Salar de Uyuni - the worlds highest and largest salt plain. We stop at a token crafts market on the way (as you always do here) and look around the worlds ... Read more >
Tags: The Great Outdoors
Fri, 12 Jan 2007 | By itchyfeet | Views [442]
We leave La Paz for Uyuni and it´s a long day of travelling. A 3 1/2 hour bus journey followed by a 7 hour train journey. An actual train! In South America! So good to be on a train. With a dining car and everything. A real novelty to eat a half decent ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
Thu, 11 Jan 2007 | By itchyfeet | Views [414]
With the amount of stuff we´ve bought and sent home we could open a shop. Albeit a small shop catering solely for hippies. Strangely, even though we´ve had 8 days in La Paz it hasn´t really become boring (despite the lacklustre journal entries - note ... Read more >
Tags: Food & eating
Wed, 10 Jan 2007 | By itchyfeet | Views [465]
Walk, walk, walk. Rain. Walk. Eat. Walk. Rain, rain. Taxi. Walk, walk. Eat................................................................... ...................................................................... ................... walk, walk. Eat.... Read more >
Tags: The Great Outdoors
Tue, 9 Jan 2007 | By itchyfeet | Views [538]
For a change its me who goes shopping: a hoodie for about 8 quid and a good pair of hiking shoes for about 40. Bolivia is cheap! Looks like we´ll be sending more stuff home. A bad day for Sonya who seems to have come down with something like my affliction.... Read more >
Tags: Shopping
Mon, 8 Jan 2007 | By itchyfeet | Views [437]
26 kilos. A good guess. 900 Boli´s to post which is about $112 i.e. bloody cheap. Will be a novelty to get home and open bags of goodies. Again I find myself sitting in a doctors waiting room. Why is there never anything for men to read in waiting rooms? ... Read more >
Tags: Doctors, hospitals & health
Sun, 7 Jan 2007 | By itchyfeet | Views [427]
An uneventful day. Packed two massive bags full of things bought over here. There must be 25 kilos if not more. I don´t know how we do it. That said, I guess we would have to spend hundreds to get the equivalent stuff at home. Here, you spend a fraction ... Read more >
Tags: Shopping
Sat, 6 Jan 2007 | By itchyfeet | Views [460]
A change of fortune. We leave one of the worst places we have stayed in and move to a cheaper, nicer and much kitscher place. Lake view photographic wallpaper and all manner of mismatched decor. Great! Hit the markets in a big way today. So much stuff ... Read more >
Tags: Markets
Fri, 5 Jan 2007 | By itchyfeet | Views [405]
A good day. Kinda. Bought (dodgy) software on the street for about a quid a go. You can buy anything on the street here. Anything. Found a good doctor. Ate some killer lemon meringue at a German restaurant. Have to extend our stay in La Paz and wait for ... Read more >
Tags: People
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