Petite ballade dans la très jolie ville d'Oruro (ironie quand tu nous tient...). Clemente arrive avec 4 heures de retard, Romain est malade et de mauvais poil, mais c'est aussi les joies du travail en groupe. Je comprends rapidement que je ne dois pas me mettre en travers de son chemin aujourd'hui et j'attends que la tempête passe. Le chemin pour Salinas est assez long et Romain est vraiment mal, j'espère que ça ira mieux demain. [View Full Entry]

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Huayna Potosi is described as the most accessible 6000m peak in the world, but alas, on the day, it turned out to be completely unaccessible for me. Summiting was the climax (or anticlimax) of a five day trekking-climbing trip in the Cordillera Real. We took some time to acclimatise throughout the week, climbing two 5000m passes and sleeping at around 4500-4700m each night. There was me and and an English couple Niki and Rich who were great fun. Rich had a fancy altimeter-thermometer watch which meant we were frequently updated with our altitude and progress. As well as the fact that [View Full Entry]

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We have just been the highest we have both been in our lives (Mie has been higher). We are back in La Paz after climbing a mountain 5700m high. The whole experience was challenging, but totally worth it. We left Lap Paz on April 1st for Tuni, a small town in the middle of nowhere, we had lunch in a small house made of mud. Then collected our donkeys and set off with our bags on a 4 hour walk to base camp. We passed hills, streams, lakes and llamas on the way. It was beautiful. After a couple of hours [View Full Entry]

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We have been trekking in the cordillera real for 4 days and it was stunning. We travelled in a car for about 4 hours out of La Paz and stopped at a tiny mud house and were told that we would have to camp there, we wouldn't be walking today, we would have to walk longer the 2nd day to make up time. The reason we couldnt start, was that our guide couldn't find any donkeys to rent- the donkeys were needed to carry our tents,all the food and cooking equipment. So we waited for them to arrive, thinking better to [View Full Entry]

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I survived the 3650m descent, 64km down the world´s most dangerous road! We started on bitumen at 4760m in the freezing cold, and ended up in the tropics at 1100m... A fabulous ride, leaving our arms sore from bumping down the rocky road! We were lucky there were hardly any trucks to contend with, however, as there had been a landslide over part of the road (we made our way over the rocks carrying our bikes..). The day ended with a shower and lunch in a hotel overlooking the gorgeous valley and the hair-raising road we had ridden down... (Actually, it [View Full Entry]

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There are four of us now, Mark, myself, Hannah, and Aaron, our guide. We are on our way down to the Uyuni area to see the salt flats, which is one of the main reasons I wanted to come to Bolivia in the first place. To get there, from La Paz, is a full day of travel. First, a 3 hour bus ride to Oruro (try saying that a few times fast), then a train ride to Uyuni. In order to have to most authentic experience possible, the bus broke down promptly about 1 hour into our destination, and our bags [View Full Entry]

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Optei por saltar alguns meses de viagem e pôr online a última aventura boliviana. A parte fotográfica foi bastante condicinada pelo frio porque a máquina não funcionou na perfeição, descarregando as baterias muito mais rápidamente do que eu estava à espera e outras vezes nem ligava. Mas não importa, porque eu vou-me lembrar para sempre destes dias. Cordilheira Real A Cordilheira Real faz juz ao nome. Imponente parte dos Andes, tem mais de 600 picos acima dos 5.000 mt. uma grande parte visível de La Paz, diria mesmo, visíveis de onde quer que estejamos. Basta olhar para lá. Não [View Full Entry]

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We left Puno on the bus at 7.30am on a journey which took us along the edges of Lake Titicaca before turning inland a little and going through some fields sprinkled with snow. Only a couple of hours into the journey we had a relatively easy border crossing into Bolivia and then had a two hour break in Copacabana for lunch. It is only when you drive along side the lake for a few hours and there is still more that you realise just how big Lake Titicaca is, pretty impressive for the highest lake in the world! After lunch we [View Full Entry]

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