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South America » Bolivia » La Paz Department » La Paz April 27th 2005

Hey all, The past three months have dragged and also flown by - I fly to NZ in a week. And it seems like I´ve saved the best photos til last! The past four weeks have been pretty much all sightseeing, not a drunken night out in sight! Spending my last week in Bs As though so serious stuff over and I´m sure there´ll be a few drinks about, plus a little more shopping! Well, last entry I was just leaving Cordoba. From there I went to Salta up in th NW of Argentina and met loads of people whol loved Cordoba so I guess I was just there at the worng time. Salta is a lovely little town headed up towards the Andes and there fore at a highter altitude. It´s really wierd when you ... read more
Mountains in the clouds...
Pretty coloured rocks...
Aww, a baby Alpaca (sort of llama)...!


Cochabamba is a great place. Its in a valley surrounded on most sides by mountains which you can walk up at weekends. Lovely climate, blue all day, not too hot but hot enough. Everyone is pretty cheerful as if they know they´ve got it ok here. Lots of open spaces to relax, lots of bars and cafes etc which you can eat at, and street vendors you don’t touch with a barge pole. Really fallen on our feet here. We have a very nice ´granny flat´ attached to a large house and are left to our own devices by the owners. Good, safe part of town as well, although we have a private guard at night who patrols the street. Have joined the country club. This place is great, real touch of luxury, so we are ... read more
Calle German Urquidi
German Urquidi and Cristo
tapa volunteers


From San Pedro de Atacama, Chile, we hired a guide with a 4x4 who drove us into Bolivia. This trip went through high Andean passes at 5300m and then across the Largest salt flat in the world, Salar de Uyuni 12,000km sq. ... read more
Into Bolivia
Our ride
Llamas

South America » Bolivia » Potosí Department » Uyuni April 20th 2005

Fra La Paz dro vi med en meget daarlig nattbuss til den gudsforlatte byen Uyuni, lengst sor i Bolivia. Uyuni er utgangspunktet for turer i den naerliggende saltorkenen, som hevdes aa vaere den storste i verden. Orkenen er fyllt med alleslags merklige landskaper og er tross sine elendige reiseselskaper og ekstreme kulde et populaert reisemaal for backpackere. Vi la ut paa tur i en meget sliten Jeep sammen med en tsjekker, en slovaker, en israeler, en sjafor og en kokk, og forberedte oss paa det verste. Etter tre dager med vakre landskap, elendige overnattinger, daarlig musikk, vulkaner, masse salt, geyshirer og varme kilder kom vi oss over grensen til Chile og endte opp i den lille byen San Pedro de Atacama. Fin tur, elendig reisebyraa :)... read more
Isla Pescado
Midt i orkenen
Solnedgang

South America » Bolivia » Potosí Department » Uyuni April 19th 2005

Vi hadde satt kursen mot Bolivia och närmare bestämt La Paz, men först skulle vi innom Puno som ligger pa den peruanska sidan av Titicacasjön. Här tog vi en dagstur för att besöka dom flytande öarna och en annan ö vid namn Taquile. Dom flytande öarna bebos av Uro indianerna och är flytande vassöar med plats til tva til tre familjer. Det tar dom ca tre manader att konstruera en ny ö som varar i rundt 15 ar. Dom är ocksa nagra jävlar pa att fixa vassbatar och det var ocksa här som Thor Heyerdahl hittade expertis til sin expedition över Stilla havet. En vassbat pa runt 10m tar mellan 20 til 30 dagar att bygga och när den inte längre duger sa tas den upp pa land och används til att odla potatis. Pa den ... read more
"The worlds most dangerous road"
Huayna Potosi
Äntligen pa toppen!


Lenge siden forrige oppdatering, men vi gjor et forsok paa aa ta det igjen naa. Etter at kontrollen over nervene var normalisert etter turen paa verdens farligste vei, la vi like gjerne ut paa en todagers klatretur til Huayna Potosi like utenfor La Paz. Vi startet paa 4 700 moh og endte paa toppen paa 6 088 moh. Dette var trolig noe av det mest utfordrende vi noensinne har gjort. Formen vaar er rimelig rusten etter to maaneder med playa&cerveza i sentral-amerika, og den tynne luften paa 5 000 meters hoyde hjalp ikke stort heller. Stort bedre ble det ikke av at utstyret vi brukte var av typen tungt og umoderne, med sko av plastikk som veide like mye som slalomstovler. Vi var ogsaa utstyrt med store brodder, is-oks, gore-tex og hodelykt. Lykten trengte vi fordi ... read more
Trening i fjellklatring
Paa toppen
Paa vei ned

South America » Bolivia » La Paz Department » La Paz April 15th 2005

Da var vi her igjen! Sekken var snoert, niste medbrakt og kamerabetteriene ladet! Dette var dagen for aa ta turen til Lake Titicacca og mingle litt med lokalbefolkningen. Historien om lokalbefolkningen begynner for lenge lenge siden..Det var noen slemme nabostammer som mente at omraadet ikke var stort nok for alle, saa de bestemte seg for aa ta over sjappa. Som sagt saa gjordt og de fredelige indianerne fikk fyken. Men..da alt saa som moerkest ut var det en luring som fant ut at hvis man bare la nok siv paa et sted, surret det sammen og lot det vokse over tid saa kunne man flyte paa det! Mer skulle det ikke til foer hele stammen flyttet ut paa sjoen og kunne leve lykkelig i alle sine dager.. Slik var det det hendte, kort fortalt..Men det interessante ... read more
Paal&Snorre
Baat
Paal&Snorre&barna

South America » Bolivia » La Paz Department » Copacabana April 12th 2005

With my jungle adventure out of the way it was time to say farewell to La Paz. Though I still hadn´t warmed to the city, I had to admit that it had served me well as a base for multiple excursions into other areas of Bolivia. There was no regret but a definite sense of uprooting and moving on, I was starting to get used to my criminally cheap room at the Hotel Majestic. This next phase of the trip was all a bit fuzzy as I had never been able to get a firm idea of how long it would take me to get from La Paz to Cusco and whether I really wanted to see anything in between. So I set off with Roxy (still with me until after Cusco) for the bus terminal ... read more
Peruvian Tyre Smuggling
Isla De Sol
A peaceful place to farm

South America » Bolivia » La Paz Department » Tiwanaku April 8th 2005

So I just spent the last 5 hours at Tiwanaku--a lil more than an hour outside of La Paz. There, one can see ruins from before BC..all the way back to 1000 BC....the Tiwanaku people reigned south america before christ and from this group came the incas as well as many other native tribes. the site was great as there is actually a pyramid there--only part of it is uncovered as this site is still be excavated. it was pretty cool and on the way back we took a road that overlooked all of La Paz. Back to Copacabana tomorrow and into Chile on monday --arriving back in Viña around 2pm or so. love to all. D... read more


Part two of my Bolivian Amazon adventure was a three day visit to the pampas or ´grassland´. After a relaxing night of amazing cocktails and some curious dinner menu items (“Winner Chicken”), we were up an at 'em early for a loong trip by jeep to the river port where we would transfer to our motor-canoe. This bumpy and generally uncomfortable trip allowed us time to get to know the other members of our group and to occasionally smash our heads into the roof as the wheels found another pothole. Roxy and I had fallen in with two other Australians (retired teachers from Sydney), two Brits (a cool young doctor and her boyfriend) and an abrasive American stand-up comedian making a documentary with a CNN-style video camera. The temperature had soared again and we were all ... read more
I could have stared at it for hours
Pirate Monkeys
"Hey Speedy..."




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