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Bolivian bureaucracy, altitude sickness and the Birthplace of the Sun

December 26th 2014
"MERRY CHRISTMAS" TO FRIENDS AND FAMILY - HOPE YOU ALL HAD A GREAT ONE! Friday 26th December – Boxing Day We left Puno on Tuesday 23rd December to travel by bus across the border from Peru into Bolivia. The journey from Puno to Copacabana is only 178 kilometres, but it took five and a half hours, two and a half to the border, two and a half crossing the border, then an ... read more

South America » Bolivia » La Paz Department » Isla del Sol

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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Viv and John Cussell

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We are off island-hopping in Thailand for the month of February. We shall leave home on the 1st of the month and return on 29th (an extra day for Leap Year)! Our journey will be from Alicante to Barcelona by train, then two flights, the first from Barcelona to Doha and the second from Doha to Phuket, both with Qatar Airways. Although this will be our forth visit to the "Land of Smiles", we haven't been there for eleven years and plan to visit islands we haven't seen before. In 2009, we travelled overland from Singapore to the island of Langkawi, Northern Malaysia, in the Southern Andaman Sea. ... full info

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