Make sure the bugs don´t bite

Chagas disease is a big problem in Bolivia. Beetles that live in the thatched ceilings of houses bite you then lay their eggs and you end up with a potentially lethal parasite in your blood stream. Not good news. For this reason Alain and I erected our tents in this rural hostal. For more information about Chagas disease and the work that Medecins Sans Frontieres is doing in Latin America please visit my website (www.pushonnorth.com).

Salta, Argentina to Uyuni, Bolivia

July 8th 2006
"His cheeks were red, roughned by the wind, which for ten long hours had massaged his cheeks. Drops of water trickled from his hair. He had emerged from the night like a sewer-worker coming up out of his manhole, with his heavy boots, his leather jacket, and his forehead-plastered hair, blinking like an owl." (Southern Mail by Antone de Saint-Exupery) Felt a bit like this yesterday when Alain an ... read more

South America » Bolivia » Potosí Department » Uyuni

Bolivia, named after independence fighter Simon BOLIVAR, broke away from Spanish rule in 1825; much of its subsequent history has consisted of a series of nearly 200 coups and counter-coups. Comparatively democratic civilian rule was established in 1... ... read more

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