Blogs from South America - page 4839

Salutti a tutti... Unsere 4-Tagestour in den Parque National Lauca und Salar de Surire: Tag1: Arica - Putre 3500m Mit langsamer Akklimatisation, inkl. vielen Stops und einem leichten Vegi-Lunch im Hare Krishna Doerfli, hat unsere Tour begonnen. Wir haben 3 Landschaftszonen durchquert: vom Atacama Desert ueber die Precordillera in die Altiplanozone. Im Pickup waren wir zu fuenft - Javier, unser Guide, 2 Italiener und wir. Tag2: Putre - Lauca N.P. 4500m - Putre Beim ersten Stop beobachteten wir ganz viele Vizcachas, eine Art Chinchilla, und Vicunas, eine Art Lama und ganz viele kleine Mauese. Diese Tiere habens noch schoen, sie leben in einer friedlichen Bergwelt umgeben von zwei Vulkanen. Leider hat das Wetter umgeschlagen je naeher wir zum Vulkan Parinacota 6350m kamen. Trotzdem konnten wir ihn ab und zu erblicken und die fantastische Sicht auf den ... read more

After a whole year living in this city, it's time to pick up the rucksacks again and hit the road. For the next few months we will be travelling through Argentine and Chilean Patagonia seeing, penguins, whales, glaciers and, hopefully, some good weather! So, it's time to say chau to our amigos and the sights of the city. Enjoy the photos!... read more

Next, to Cusco's colonial splendour and ruins. On the route out of town we stopped to visit a community supported by our tour company. They showed us their homegrown fabrics.... read more

At 2950m above sea level Tupiza is ringed by the rugged Cordillera de Chicas. Surrounded by amazing landscape of rainbow coloured rocks, hills, mountains and canyons, deep gorges and is reminiscent of the American Wild West. Hence, please don’t fall of your SEAT at the site of me on a horse. This is actually part of the area where Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid was filmed and therefore it would have been rude for me to have not ventured on a horse riding tour. Most of the actual movie was filmed approx 6 hours from here and as I had never watched the movie decided to make my own! I was only supposed to do a 3 hour tour but was enjoying myself so much that I decided to continue for the whole day even ... read more

This Saturday started out with lots of rain. Why does it have to rain on the weekends and be sunny during the week? Alejandro, Linnea and I were deciding what we should do with the day so we wouldn´t be cooped up inside. Going to see a movie was suggested but what we really wanted to do was go to El Valle de la Luna (Moon Valley) just outside of La Paz. Finally at about 2PM, the rains ceased and the sun came out, intense as always at this altitude. The change in weather decided our plans, and the next thing I knew, we were out of the apartment and heading towards the main road to catch public transportion to El Valle de la Luna. About five minutes from our building was our first stop at ... read more