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Lake Titicaca

After leaving La Paz we headed for Copacabana on the shores of Lake Titicaca. The bus ride from La Paz to Copacabana in a great ride. After reading online that the road wasn't known for safety I have come to the assumption that this was outdated. For once in Bolivia the whole journey was on a paved road. We arrived in Copacabana late in to the afternoon. We headed for a hostel that Clinton's guide

Sucre

After spending one night in a hotel with a bed that had two legs made of cheap steal welded together no towels hot water or toilet paper and a hole under the door 3 inches thick we decided to go searching for a better choice We did infact find the best place we have stayed so far Wasi Masi a cute little family run hostel with its own kitchen and a clean friendly dog Baloolike the jungle bo

Toilet talk and salt flats Beautiful bizarre Bolivia

Beautiful bizarre Bolivia August 2008Villazon Tupiza the salt flats and Uyuni On the Tuesday morning we finally arrived at La Ciaca the border town of Argentina and Bolivia. IA soon as we got off the bus I had a really funny turn and felt horrendous. I donrsquot know if it was the altitude or dehydration or what but I felt in a really bad way. It only lasted about 20 minutes though and aft

CHAPARE the storyhope I dont get malaria

Cant believe I wore only wore shorts knowing that I was going to the jungle. Ended up with a vast amount of mosquito bites all on my legs and havent been taking my malaria medication due to some lucid dreaming and advice from experts telling me its not required in Cochabamba. Well Chapare wasnt in cochabamba but more of on the outskirts of Villa TUNARI and was the farthest in the jungle I have y

Miners are mad

There was not much to do in Potosi except go down a hole so we thought why notThe town they say is the highest city in the world used to produce most of South America and Spains silver. Now the silver is almost run out but they keep mining for other raw materials. We got kitted up and shown the plants at which they seperate the silver from the rock in order to sell. The health and safety sid

La Paz

We woke in the morning early to get a bus back to La Quiaca and back to Argentina. A step we didn't want to take but were left with very little else we could do. Simon was going to have to take the bus east to a larger city with a small airport in which he could then fly to La Paz for his flight back to America. So we got up and went to fetch some last minute things while Clinton headed to the bus

La Paz

Hallo zusammenSo hier noch ein paar Eindruecke von La Paz. Die moderne und traditionelle zu gleich. Die Stadt ist riesig und man spaziert von lokalen Maerkten mit noch traditionell gekleideten Leuten zu den Hexenmaerkten wo man alles Moegliche erhaelt wie z. B. getrocknete Lamasembryode und sonstige Mittelchen bis quasi zur modernen Metropole wo Leute in Anzuege herumrennen Eine puliseren

Isla del Sol

Hallo zusammenSo unser letzter Trip in Bolivien. Wir fuhren von La Paz mit dem Bus nach Copacabana. Fahrt ca. 3 12 h. Am Nachmittag schlenderten wir ein bischen in Copacabana und am naechsten morgen nahmen wir das Boot zur Isla del Sol. Wir fuhren zum noerdlichen Teil der Insel. Dort besichtigten wir zuerst die InkaRuinen Altar Labyrinth und dann machten wir uns auf dem Weg nach Sueden. Der W

Sucre Hauptstadt von Bolivien

Sucre die weisse Kolonialstadt Hauptstadt von Bolivien.....mit vielen Cafes und guten Restaurants hat mir sehr gut gefallen ein Ort zum relaxen und kulinarisch sehr abwechslungsreich mhhhh

Oruro

Hier noch ein paar Eindruecke von Oruro als wir in die Uyuni Wueste gingen. Habe ein PC gefunden wo man schneller Foeteli laden kann Oruro hat einen riesen Markt.... das Staedtchen hat mir gut gefallen. Als wir dort war feierten Sie den nationalen Unabhaengigkeitstag ein bischen wie bei uns der 1. August. Ich sage nur Paraden Paraden.....

Santa Cruz and the Hard Long Road There

Ok so basically a lot of interesting things have happened that are all impossible to completely make you understand what just happened.I bought my ticket to Santa Cruz from a place in Filadelphia but the problem was the bus did not pick me up in Filadelphia I had to go to another town. So after a few hours of walking around and updating my blog pictures I found a bus company NASA which is t

Rurrenabaque Nationalpark Madidi

Hallo zusammenWieder zurueck in die Zivilisation Am 16.08. sind wir von Sucre ueber La Paz nach Rurrenabaque Jungel geflogen. Wir haben uns entschlossen einen Trip im Nationalpark Madidi zu machen. Wir flogen mit der Amaszonas Aeroline. Das ist so ein kleines Flugzeug siehe Foto und natuerlich hatten wir Verspaetung man weiss nie ob sie fliegen und wenn ja um welche Zeit. Nun ja

Entrada Folklorica Universirtaria

On the last Saturday of July university students from La Universidad Mayor de San Andrs UMSA in La Paz perform folk dances in the streets of La Paz to celebrate their cultural heritage. The parade is full of music and costumed dancers honoring cultural and ethnic backgrounds they try to showcase some of the not so common indigenous dances but also do include the popular ones such as the diabl

La Virgen de Urkupia

Over the weekend I was in Coillicollo I small town 12 km from Cochabamba where ages ago a miracle happened in the form of the virgin of urkupia ascended to heaven in front of the whole town. Today Bolivians come from all over the country and even the US to pay hommage to the virgin with 2 full days of dancing and nights full of partying and a final day of walking the 12km from Cochabamba

Leg 13 Bolivia

Remember me I used to write semiregular blogs about cycling round the world. But then I decided not to back up my hard drive and lost a couple of entriescountries. And I figured it wasnrsquot in my interest or yours to rewrite them all.In brief I had reached Sydney 32 countries 19800 kilometres 344 days 3 million turns of the pedals 280 different beds 13 punctures and 1 tropical

The Airports

The trip to Cochabamba Bolivia was a long and arduous one full of nofun. I left my apartment in columbus at about 430 on a Tuesday morning for my 740 am flight to Miami. As soon as I got past security I realized that I forgot my passport type photo that I need for my Bolivian visa. Darn.Since I arrived so early at the airport I scoured the internet for a place in Miami where I could get s

Tarija

When we left for Tarija my cousin joked that his brother would head to the airport when he saw the plane flying over the town...well it was no joke..he did wait to see the plane before heading over to pick us up. Tarija is a small town..with two plazas and a handful of restaurants that served good Argentinean beef. It was small but in a nice safe way. The first couple of days there we had great

August 2nd3rd 4th Concrete shoes wont last in a RIver..

I just discovered this fruit called a Carambola which is sweetbitter but very satisfying and just had somemore cheese rice like I did for lunch along with a bunch of fat on a bone which I guess I was supposed to devour but failed miserably at doing so. I have to admit this whole trip Ive been filled to the brim and in a weird way im probably losing weight and getting thinner. EVen Marta Johns MO

La Paz Oruro

Hallo zusammenAlso nachdem wir von Copacabana gut in La Paz angekommen sind musse sich Danielle am 30.07. verabschieden. Feur Sie ist die Zeit gekommen wieder retour nach Zuerich zu fliegen am 02.08.2010 faengt Sie mit Ihrem neune Job an . Es war eine laessige ZeitDafuer habe ich jetzt ein neues Gspaendli erhalten. Michele meine Kollegin ist von Zuerich nach La Paz geflogen am 1.08.201

The tragic trail from La Paz to Uyuni

Really not my day It all started harmlessly enough wandering the fascinating witches markets admiring the dried llama foetuses. At noon Gonzalo picked us up and walked us to his favourite steakhouse near the bus station where we are going to catch the bus to Oruro to get the train to Uyuni. Here is where it started to go horribly wrong as on the way down the steep downhill steps I rolled my an