Semaine 15 - Tupiza_Bolivia; Humahuaca & Iruya_Argentina Comme a l'accoutume, le bus de Uyuni a Tupiza fut grandiose, et mit un temps pas possible pour faire pas bp de kilometres. Les Boliviens ont le chic de vendre des places de bus sans verifier si elle n'ont pas deja ete vendu dans d'autres villes que le bus traverse ! Dans un petit blede a 2h de route, j'ai donc laisse ma place a une femme qui avait une quantite pas possible de sac, et donc prenait plutot 2 place qu'une ! Je suis alle m'assoir au fond ou j'avais la place mais [View Full Entry]

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Now i´ve of course read about Bolivia. Its renowned for being a hard place to travel around, or at least it used to, its renowned for coca leaf production and therefore keeping half of Europe and Americas noses powdered and its renowned for its crazy llama textiles and clothing. In the last few days we have experiences all of this (NOT the powdered nose bit, just the leaf!!!), and more. As soon as we arrived at the Argentina/Bolivia border we could tell it wasnt going to be an easy crossing. For starters, we had to queue for about an hour, for [View Full Entry]

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Our night bus from Salta to La Quiaca was uneventful and despite being scheduled to arrive at 8am we arrived at 7am with Sharon and I both disorientated. We soon got our things together and knew it was possible to walk from the bus station across the border and into the Bolivian town Villazon. Whilst it is possible to walk what we hadn't banked on was the Lonely Planet guide map being wrong (or we can't read maps which will be a first for this trip!). Anyway what should have been a 15minute walk took us just over an hour but [View Full Entry]

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22nd June, Arriving on an Andesmar bus in La Quiaca at 7.30am in the morning it was dark and cold and damp. The town was very grim and with backpacks on we had to walk across the town to get to the border of Argentina and into Villazon in Bolivia! Unfortunately the map in the lonely planet guide didn't seem to correspond with the roads in front of us so Brim and I found ourselves walking in a huge circle only to get nowhere fast! After asking 3 different people where the border was however, we were finally on track and [View Full Entry]

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From Tilcara we took the bus north towards La Quiaca. The buses do not cross the border so we needed to find our way to the border crossing from the bus terminal. After working with conflicting directions we finally made it to the crossing. Crossing was much easier than we expected but we could have just gotten lucky so follow the suggestions in your guide book. As soon as we crossed into Bolivia, we knew we were in a different country. The clothing, streets, people, products were all different than Argentina. On our way to the bus station on the Bolivia [View Full Entry]

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Bonjour a tous!! Je suis maintenant tout au sud de la Bolivia a 3 heures a peine de la frontiere avec l;Argentine. Je vous previens tout de suite, cela risque d;etre un long blogue: mon lecteur MP3 doit se recharger car je pars demain pour un tour en jeep de 4 jours dans des deserts, dont le plus grand desert de sel au monde!!!! Mieux vaut avoir un peu de musique pour passer le temps dans la jeep entre les differentes attractions! Surtout que si tout se passe bien, je serai avec un groupe de 3 gars inconnus… Sont mieux d;etre [View Full Entry]

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Schon wieder eine Woche rum und den Grossteil davon haben wir in Salta verbracht. Was sich aber auch gelohnt hat, wir haben hier einfach total viel gemacht. Da wir hier erst mittags ankamen vor fuenf Tagen, haben wir nicht viel unternommen. erst mal vom Busfahren ausgeruht und dann halt noch kurz die Stadt angesehen. War alles schon ganz anders als Cordoba. Noch mal ne Nummer kleiner und viel eher das Suedamerika, das man sich vorstellt. Ich denke das wird immer mehr so, je mehr man sich Bolivien naehert. Unser Hostel gehoerte zu einer Gruppe von dreien. Unseres war zwar das Zentralste, [View Full Entry]

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So! Nachdem wir Córdoba schon nach zwei Tagen hinter uns gelassen hatten gings gleich ab Richtung Norden. Wir wollten erst noch einen Stopp in Tucuman machen, aber entschieden uns dann doch direkt nach Salta zu fahren, was insgesamt nur knappe 14 Stunden Fahrt bedeutete. Dort haben wir dann ganze fuenf Tage verbracht, was recht viel ist, aber wir waren an die Busfahrten nach San Pedro de Atacama (Chile) gebunden. Und diese Busse faehren nur 2-3 Mal die Woche. Aber wie die Ueberschrift ja schon dezent hinweist, sollte unser Weg nach Bolivien fuehren. Mehr dazu spaeter. Dienstag nachmit [View Full Entry]

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Ok so i decided to go on a 2 day horse tour in beautiful canyon country. Well you know how they always give you a donkey (a crap slow horse)... so i asked for a very fast horse, but one that listens... they asked me do you have a lot of experience, and i figured since i´ve been on a horse twice and learned to gallop by accindent, yes why not..... holy crappers!!! they gave me Rosita, and i should have figured something was up when the owner asked me three times, so you have a lot of experience? a lot, [View Full Entry]

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I really shouldn't complain considering that ALL the buses I've taken in Bolivia have been far better than any I had the pleasure of 'experiencing' in Africa or India. I mean in Bolivia I've not been on one where it seems everyone but me is puking (some into a receptacle, others not...), I've not sat next to a young girl with diarrhoea and a bus driver who refuses to stop for her (I'll let your imagination do the rest with that one....) and hey, I've even had a whole seat to myself! But you see Argentina and Chile have spoilt me. [View Full Entry]

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