Blogs from Bolivia, South America - page 568

We are starting to wonder when our luck is going to change! We are currently sat at La Paz airport as our flight to Rurrenabaque has been delayed indefinately due to heavy rain and Rurrenabaque only having a grass runway! We were meant to fly at 7.15am, it is now 1.40pm and we have been told they will give us an update at 4pm. We also had to get up at 5am to get the early flight so we would have the full day in Rurrenabaque so we are quite tired. Ironically we decided to fly to save time! Well enough of my grumlings! After our return from our visit to see Aydi we went to an internet cafe to catch up on what was happening with Andy´s bank account and to see when we would ... read more

Well we left Maryke & Pascal behind and headed down to Uyuni and the salt plains. The trip down was by bus and train. The train wasn´t too bad as the scenery was quite cool, with huge salt lakes and barren desert with mountians in the distance. We did get into Uyuni quite late, so needed to find a bed then get up early in the morning and hoped to find a tour leaving then. Well within 15 minutes of getting into uyuni at 10.30pm we had found both so were very happy! We even had a choice of groups, a mix of europeans or a bunch of irish and a token english girl. We went with the irish. The next day we soon realise we picked well. The irish were a bunch of 4 boys ... read more

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 continued our journey towards La Paz along a winding road until we came to a point where we had to get off the bus and into a little boat to cross part of Lake Titicaca. ... read more

We had breakfast and got on an early bus to La Paz. Now Lake Titikaka has Boliva on one side and Peru on the other, owever the penisula with Copacabana on is on the side of Peru, so to get to La Paz we need to go back into Peru or make a small crossing. Of course this is the way to go. Now we assumed there would be a bridge - well we were wrong! We had to get of the bus which was then driven onto a a shallow raft thing (did not look secure at all) and then we caught a boat across. This was well worth the trip alone - seeing these buses just floating across the river! Coming into La Paz was very cool too as it is set in a ... read more

Hi everyone We are currently in La Paz, and really loving Bolivia. (although we have a 12 hour overnight bus trip to Potosi later, so opinions may change...will keep you posted on the blockades (or hopefully lack of)).... So we left Puno on the bus. It was a great trip across the Alto Plano - the highlands of the Andes - with stunning scenary - farmland streaching out to snow capped peaks in the distance. We sailed through Bolivian immigration and stopped off in Copacabana for a change of bus and lunch. Would definitely recommend staying there for a few days if you have the time...it's a lovely little seaside (lakeside!!) town complete with Pedalos and a row of trout restaurants/shacks on the front. We found it strange that Bolivia was set up for 'resort' tourism ... read more