Sorata is our last stay in Bolivia before we head back to La Paz (again) and take the flight to Quito in Ecuador. We have been here for the last four days, and it’s been raining for most of it. To say it reminds me of a holiday in Wales would be an understatement. We arrived here to the sight of a road that suddenly stopped, the road we were on, and the road we needed to be on to get to Sorata. A landslide the night before had wiped it off the side of the canyon wall and we found [View Full Entry]

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Okay, so I lied, this blog is not entirely set in Bolivia, a teeny bit of Peru sneaks in, but close enough right? So after leaving the lovely Cusco we headed to the enormous Lake Titicaca, part of which is in Peru,and part in Bolivia. We went on a tour out to the Floating Islands, which are amazing. Nobody (or at least not our guide) is sure when people began creating these islands, but create them they did. The islands are constructed by the inhabitants out of the roots of reeds that grow in parts of the lakes. They cut blocks [View Full Entry]

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Our final stop in Bolivia was, a more or less compulsory, visit to the Salar de Uyuni and the surrounding area. This salt flat, which was once a giant lake, is the largest in the world and roughly the size of Lebanon. Admittedly Lebanon isn’t perhaps the most impressive country for size comparison purposes, but you get the picture, it’s big. As well as a tourist destination, the area is also, perhaps not surprisingly, prime mineral extraction territory. It is estimated that the area contains something like half of the world’s lithium. If, in years to come we’re all [View Full Entry]

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Before I started this trip, I was sure that I wanted to see Machu Picchu and do the Inca trail, but there is a 3 months in advance reservation required. After further investigations I decided to join a tour for 3 weeks, so that I was sure to do the Inca Trail and have some company for a while. Even though I must say it is very easy to travel around Southamerica alone, I always meet people heading the same direction. So there we go, a group of 7 meet in Lima to join this 3 weeks tour through Peru to [View Full Entry]

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We had a lie-in today, a 5.00 am start and we’re straight out of the door and out there amongst the early morning weather. We thought that the air in our room was cold, outside was a fair bit colder. Unlike last night when I made my way back to the hostal after the sun had set, I now had more than just a T shirt to wear and my acme "I am a tourist, please hassle me" alpaca cargidan was serving me well. Our first stop for the day was a geyser field an hour or so from where we [View Full Entry]

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A 4.00 am start to the day, waking up within these walls of salt, I had to question where I was. Many times recently I lose track of where I am in my semi-conscious state. We’ve often been moving so quickly, it’s disorienting and at times quite disturbing to not know where you are, let alone what day it is. Your conscious mind kicks in though and corrects the anxiety, and today I remember that I’m on the edge of the Salar, sleeping with my friends, and ready for a new adventure. A swift breakfast and we’re on the road, or [View Full Entry]

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Making our way up the rio Beni it felt like we were embarking upon a real adventure. The jungle you read about as a child, those tales of mysterious Africa, felt real as we headed up to our jungle lodge deep in the Amazon basin. This definitely felt different to our jungle trip in Peru. There was just something about it that made you feel like you were venturing into the unknown. This was the jungle that I had signed up for. A gruelling seven hour boat ride from Rurrenabaque and we arrived at the river bank ready for a half [View Full Entry]

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Hi it is Omer In Uyuni we went to a desert called Salar. Actually it´s not a sesert it´s a desert made out of salt and only now starts the adventure! Day 1 - We went to visit a cemetery of trains. The trains that are there, are not in use any longer, because they were working on coal, and now the trains in Bolivia use gasoline. Then we went to the Salar. First of all, we went to mountains of salt. Then we went to a factory of s [View Full Entry]

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...after the mines we decided to continue our travels with Tanja and Francisco and went to Sucre. A beautiful town/city just noth of Potosi and the Bolivien capital. The bus drive here was fantastic, winding our way through the Altiplano along a dried up riverbed on the side of red soiled mountains speckled with trees. After 6h we arrived in Sucre and found a hostel to stay in. We then set off to find something to eat. We came a cross a nice looking and from our guide books recommended French resturant. This must have been a Bolivien upper class [View Full Entry]

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We're now in Peru. Thank god. They nearly didnt let me leave Bolivia...i'll get to that in a minute but first an update on our last few days in 'lovely' Bolivia (i only write that with muted sarcasm becasue Bolivia has really pissed me off in the last 24 hours, i love it really!!) So we ended up getting delayed in our Amazon oasis, Rurrenabaque for another day as we were rained in meaning no planes could fly. By the end of our week there we were getting a bit fidgety and as everyones stomachs had turned to sludge we were [View Full Entry]

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