Destination: Bolivia

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Sloths

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 | By bagen | Views [2621]

...and no, that isn´t referring to our rather laid-back chill out style of travel at the moment. Our first post-parque stop was Trinidad (the Bolivian city, not the carribean Trinidad & Tobago) where we decided to make the most of a hot shower, ... Read more >

Character building in Bolivia

Sat, 2 Feb 2008 | By marts_and_ange | Views [1508] | Comments [2]

So it was after our lengthy stay in Valpo that we made our way up to the top of Chile into San Pedro de Atacama, an oasis in the driest desert in the world. It was a charming little town, completely kitted out for tourists (save for the atms which ... Read more >

Tags: Misadventures

Pass the salt please

Wed, 13 May 2009 | By iainjosim | Views [1301] | 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

La Paz here I come

Wed, 3 Oct 2007 | By netsy19 | Views [803]

I’ve made it to Bolivia. It only required I: a) Get a cab from my hotel... Stupidly, I thought my hotel might call me a cab (silly me, where would I ever get this idea) With my broken Spanish the guy behind the desk was aware that a ¨taxi¨ was ... Read more >

Tags: planes trains & automobiles

The last month, or so...

Wed, 2 Jun 2010 | By evi | Views [689]

So, this one’s a long one. I tried to be brief, but have tried to cram in almost a month of travel... Last I wrote we were still in BA, having the time of our lives. We once again stayed a little longer than we meant to, but eventually ... Read more >

Trout, trout, trout

Sun, 28 Jan 2007 | By thehappyeggs | Views [529]

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

To the Radisson driver!

Fri, 18 Mar 2011 | By gloriamelody | Views [518]

My days as a Catholic school girl are paying off. This morning my flight was cancelled. Dunno why... I'm a silly gringo and don’t get any answers. But the world makes sense again. They put me up at The Raddison. It’s a four-star hotel everywhere else ... Read more >

Taken in by the church

Wed, 23 Apr 2014 | By bencrisp | Views [383] | Scholarship Entry

“Por favour!” At a orphanage, hidden away in the Bolivian hills, I needed to leave. Four days earlier, I had made the spontaneous decision to leave the NGO I was volunteering at in Peru to travel down to Bolivia, in order to visit the death place of ... Read more >

Tags: 2014 Travel Writing Scholarship - Euro Roadtrip

Bolivia

Thu, 6 Jan 2005 | By pelzek | Views [351]

a new year. after so long in peru, we breezed through bolivia, hiking the isla del sol on lake titicaca, a new years under a moonlit sky and candle lanterns all around. a quiet experience, wandering the hills and cliffs, sun on my face, a ... Read more >

Tags: Adventures

A Local Encounter that Changed my Perspective - Different country, different rules

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 | By dharmabum | Views [328] | Comments [1] | Scholarship Entry

Our petrified faces were still pressed against the damp, roughly-plastered walls; our hands out-stretched above our trembling heads. We could taste the salty beads of sweat running down our faces as the machine guns smiled menacingly at our backs. Just ... Read more >

Tags: Travel Writing Scholarship 2013