Blogs from Bolivia, South America - page 19

Geo: -16.2902, -63.5887As recommanded by my new friend Sarah, whom I met in Santiago, once arrived in San Pedro de Atakama, I looked for the travel agency "Cruz Andina" to book a 4-day-trip to Bolivia. Lionel, who was going to be our guide, gave me all necessary infos and made me a very good price (125.000 $ CLP). Afterwards I returned to the hostel I had found just before and where I would camp that night. I spent the afternoon discovering the center of San Pedro de Atakama with it's nice artisanal markets and relaxing at the pool of my hostel. I must say the first night in my new tent was terrible : it was really really cold and without any mattress the floor was soo hard. Well, I survived but I should buy somewhere ... read more

Dritter Reisebericht aus Bolivien Durch ihn hat Gott alles erschaffen, was im Himmel und auf der Erde ist. Er machte alles, was wir sehen, und das, was wir nicht sehen koennen, ob Koenige, Reiche, Herrscher oder Gewalten. Alles ist durch ihn und fuer ihn erschaffen. Kolosser 1,16 Schon wieder sind knappe zwei Monate vergangen und ich durfte viele schoene Erlebnisse sammeln, die ich mit euch teilen moechte. Als Erstes bedanke ich mich von Herzen fuer alle eure Gebete. Meine Dankbarkeit laesst sich nicht in Worte fassen. Moege Gott euch dafuer segnen und beschenken. Ende Oktober war ich fuer eine Woche in Arequipa. Es war eine emotional schwierige Zeit. Viele Von euch wissen, dass ich dort fuer ein Jahr gelebt hatte. Danach kehrte ich drei Mal zurueck. Hatte auch einen peruanischen Freund an diesem Ort. Oft dachte ... read more

Booking our bus to Copacabana, on the shores of the famous Lake Titicaca, could not have been easier. We simply asked the lady at the hotel reception and she did the rest. "El bus recogera ustedes a las ocho menos cuarto por la manana, manana", she told us. All done. At about 7.30am or siete y media we got a knock on our door while I was still in just my underpants. A lady stood there and said "en cinco minutos el bus estara listo a recoge ustedes". "Pero, es siete y media solo - la senora dijonos que el bus llega a las ocho menos cuarto", I replied. In any case we were downstairs with our bags at 7.40am - five minutes earlier that we were initially told but five minutes later than when we ... read more

Other worldly is how we would describe our tour through Salar de Uyuni, the salt flats of Southern Bolivia. We ended our stay in Bolivia with an amazing three day trip through some of the most spectacular terrain either of us has ever scene. From the white vistas on the salt flats to the blues, greens and reds of the lagoons, we were on a sensory overdose that kept us high throughout our final days in Bolivia. From there we would cross over the sandy boarder into chile for the next part of our Journey. Like we've done so many times before, we hopped on an overnight bus to Uyuni which is the starting point of all the salt tours going from north to south. When our bus finally stopped it was 4 am and our ... read more

‘Salt plane, Salt plane. Yay, we’re going on a salt plane!’ Nathan was even more excited than I was about going to Uyuni to see the salt flats, and that is saying something. It had something to do with a misunderstanding though. He thought the salt plane was our means of transport and not the destination. We was wrong about that. I think the mode of transport must have been a spaceship, because where we landed seemed like another planet. The space ships, which looked like buses, took us from sunny Copacobana on the shore of Lake Titicaca to La Paz first. We have seen Quito and Lima already and from what I’d heard, La Paz would be even less appealing to us. So we were fortunate enough to get on an overnight bus that departed ... read more