My biggest draw card for Bolivia is the 12,000km2 Salar de Uyuni. Arriving in Uyuni and going straight back to bed wasn’t quite how I’d imagined this particular adventure starting, however there was precious little else I was capable of doing. It was a pity because I missed Katie’s birthday…
Bec
Previous lives include graphic designer, trainee chef and favourite child. These days I'm living each day as it comes...otherwise known as giving up my good job, giving up my house to tenants, giving up a lot of material possessions and even giving up my cat. The future includes traveling to South America, Canada, the US and Central America to work out where next...
sweet smell of saddles in Sucre
/ 25/06/2013After the dust had settled on the rally tracks around Sucre and we were allowed into the city, the taxi drove by a few passed out drunks on footpaths before dropping us at our hotel. We took a short walk around town via the bustling mercado and the offices of…
blasting into Bolivia
/ 18/06/2013Our first taste of Bolivia was La Paz, the commercial capital of Bolivia and where el Presidente lives and works. Due to that fact, our first full day there had the backing soundtrack of random blasts of fireworks. Not the pretty “ooh, aah” kind either, just the annoying-sounds-like-gunfire kind. Protests…
a taste of home on the fronterra
/ 13/06/2013Circling around the south west of Lake Titicaca to the frontier town of Kasani the bus drivers delighted us by bringing a slice of Brisbane culture to this rainy, frosty, hailing, corner of rural Peru. Yes people, Savage Garden’s Greatest Hits are blaring from the bus stereo. And of course…
living the local life on Lago Titicaca
/ 12/06/2013Lake Titicaca is monstrous, high, shared by Peru and Bolivia and our base for three days. The city of Puno lies on her shores and we spent an afternoon slowly climbing to the Condor statue, high above the city at the end of 500 steps. Just what one feels like…