Relaxing on a Water Bottle

The Best Border Crossing

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October 7th 2008
(Catherine) Border crossings are usually very boring affairs that inevitably involve filling in lots of forms, having your bags half-heartedly searched by a bored official and getting ripped-off by money changers because you can´t get your head around the exchange rates quickly enough. So when we discovered that our Bolivia/Chile border crossing could be tagged on to the end of a three-day trip ... read more

South America » Bolivia

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Bolivia, named after independence fighter Simon BOLIVAR, broke away from Spanish rule in 1825; much of its subsequent history has consisted of a series of nearly 200 coups and counter-coups. Comparatively democratic civilian rule was established in 1... ... read more