DISCLAIMER: Onderstaande tekst is voor de verandering niet geschreven door dhr. MAJ Meeuwsen. Wat nu volgt is het blogdebuut van mevr. M.Groen. Geniet ervan... Grinnikend typte Matthijs ergens in maart over de 'tropische' Hollandse zomers die jullie moesten doorstaan terwijl wij heerlijk in Zuid Amerika zouden rondreizen. Het lachen verging ons gisterochtend toen we om 6 uur in het pikkedonker op onze 4x4 stonden te wachten. Temperatuur: MIN 35 graden celsius, ja MIN 35! Hoe we zo diep zijn gezonken (of zo hoog gestegen, we bevonden ons op 4300 meter) volgt: Na ons avontuur op Lag [View Full Entry]

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Well if i though that my trip to Lapaz was bad, is just because really I had no clue I still had to experience the worst, or being sarcastic, la creme de la creme, of the bolivian buses.. Somehow I managed to keep my self busy on a Sunday morning in Lapaz - and is quite a mission as everyting is shut, and I made my way to Villa Fatima to catch my bus.. I had a look around to see what the best bus company could be to rest my bum for the following 18 hrs, then I noticed there [View Full Entry]

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Chap 7: Le Salar d Uyuni de Tupiza: du 12 au 16 juillet. Nous sommes a la gare routiere de potosi bien tot pour notre départ à 7h30... mais notre bus ne partira pas car pas assez de monde...du coup, ils se sont arranges avec une autre compagnie et nous voila au fond du fond du bus au lieu d etre devant...pour 8 heures de trajet sur une piste ! Au final, ca passe plus vite que ce qu on imaginait, les paysages sont jolis et il n y a ni TV ni musique pour nous casser les oreilles....que du bonheur [View Full Entry]

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Stotty; So eventually across the Border into one of the poorest countries in South America as per previous post and we were on our way North. We knew from friends and other blogs that it was tough going in southern Bolivia all on tracks. We worked out that we had 200 miles to do until the first aspfalto rd near Potosi and the way the villages worked out for accomodation we would do this in 4 days. seemed surreal leaving the frenetic pace of Villazon, straight out of town and it was forgotten already as we were back on the bleak [View Full Entry]

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Hola allemaal, aankomst La Paz was s'ochtends vroeg om een uur of zeven.Alle hostels waren vol geboekt,we hadden niet geboekt omdat we onverwachts richting La Paz gingen.We hadden bij een hostel gebruik kunnen maken van internet, maar alles wat er op internet vermeld staat, was vol.Dus het werd een hotel,hotel Librador.Alles in het hotel had de karakteristieken van de jaren 70.Zoals het behang,t.v.,telefoon etc...grappig en de service was ook zo!! Maar we gingen wel opzoek naar iets goedkopers.En toevallig in La Paz kwamen we een zuid afrikaanse tegen die we hadden ontmoet in Tupiza.Zij ha [View Full Entry]

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Uyuni, Bolivia is a tourist destination in the loosest sense of the world. The only real reason for coming here is to get in a jeep and drive out again to see the nearby Salar de Uyuni, the world´s largest Salt Flats. We arrived here on the surprisingly comfortable train from Tupiza sometime after midnight, only to be greeted by sub zero temperatures and feral dogs. Originally we´d planned to get straight out of town, but we couldn't bring ourselves to obey the call of the alarm clock in the morning, and instead took to shopping for a tour the following [View Full Entry]

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Day 285 - Friday 11 July We'd been given the back seats of the bus and it was so bumpy that I'd hardly got any sleep last night. The bus driver had also been tearing along which didn't exactly make the ride any smoother and we got into town about 5 to 6 in the morning. It was still dark and with the town still shut up we followed a guy we met at the bus station who reckoned he had a room. He did but it was a bit of a hell hole and there was no locks on the [View Full Entry]

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Na Bolivia tudo e 'tranquilo'. O carro quebra no meio do nada 'no hay problema amigo, tudo tranquilo'. Tive a impressao que a Bolivia e provavelmente o menos desenvolvido dos paises da America do Sul e tristemente o mais pobre tambem. Mesmo nas cidades grandes como La Paz, se ve pouco desenvolvimento. As casas e predios sao na maioria sem acabamento, dando a impressao de uma grande favela. Mas em termos culturais e historicos e um pais muito rico. Entramos na Bolivia saindo de San Pedro de Atacama no Chile, onde organizamos uma viagem de 3 dias num veiculo 4 x [View Full Entry]

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A dirt track just over 200km long connects Uyuni with Potosi, the nearly 6.5 hour bus ride sufficiently time-consuming that even a Laotian might raise an eyebrow at the average speed. With a dozen backpackers clogging up the seats, I'm sure the locals were none too pleased either as it was standing room only before we'd even left Uyuni. The journey was expedited, and people's bladders tested, by just one stop along the way, and there was relief all round when we arrived in the 4,000m+ altitude of Potosi. A taxi so old that it was a Datsun delivered me to [View Full Entry]

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I got to Potosi mid-day after a horrible bus ride and settled into highest city of its size in the world. The main attraction of Potosi is its silver mine and to be able to tour it. On sunday morning we met with our guide and traveled to a site to get out fitted in our miner outfits. We got pants, jackets, rubber boots, helmets, and head lamps. Dressed in our mine outfits we headed to the miner market to buy gifts for the miners. Walking into a small shop we bought coca leaves, alcohol that was 96%, cigarettes, and dynamite. [View Full Entry]

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