South America

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- 6 mai 2023, 07:59
- ☀️ 7 °C
- Altitude: 2 958 m
- Bolivie Departamento de Potosí Tupiza -21.445055, -65.71862821°26’42” S 65°43’7” W
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Jour 34
Tupiza
6 mai 2023, Bolivie ⋅ ☀️ 7 °C
Easy border crossing from Argentina into Bolivia! They actually asked for a COVID vaccination record, but they didn’t really look at it when I showed it haha.

Then a sweaty minibus ride to Tupiza, a town in the desert. Got some money and walked around the town a bit, did a little walk for sunset up to a viewpoint. Things are crazy cheap here. I got a burger with fries for 1.30$! And there’s tuk-tuks everywhere which is usually a good sign because 1) they are funny, and 2) it means you can get a ride anywhere for like a dollar 👍
In the evening went for dinner with Renato the Brazilian guy, and then got organised for my tour to the salt flats tomorrrow. Woo!En savoir plus
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Voyageur What an amazing location for a village!
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Voyageur 2 legged rabbit?
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Voyageur What birds nest in those rocks?
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Voyageur Hmm I didn’t see any birds!
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- 6 mai 2023, 16:53
- 🌬 5 °C
- Altitude: 4 202 m
- Bolivie Departamento de Potosí Sol de la Mañana -22.112978, -67.28416422°6’47” S 67°17’3” W
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Jour 34
Uyuni - Day 1
6 mai 2023, Bolivie ⋅ 🌬 5 °C
Uyuni Salt Flats tour with Tupiza Tours. Left Tupiza at 8am in old Toyota Land Cruiser that struggled up the crazy dirt road, winding up to max 4900m altitude. Cramped and not super comfy, but I loved just looking out of the window. Driver/Guide Gerry only Spanish. 4 others in my group: couple from France, mid 20s they just finished medicine studies. And couple from Australia/Scotland. All nice and friendly, but I felt a bit 5th wheel sometimes!
Tour was basically driving all day through these bizarre landscapes and stopping at interesting poiunts, miradors, lakes etc.

- Landscape barren and desert 🏜️ windy and dusty, but beautiful.
- lunch at a village
- Ciudad del encanto cool pillar like rock formations, just made of compact sand.
- small and uncomfy driving along the bumpy road in the middle of nowhere
- saw llamas, pequaci?, and big bird like and emu (name?)
- ruins of colonial Spanish town San Antonio del Nuevo Mundo. From 1604 they enslaved the Quechua natives and made them mine silver. Then built the town to house more slaves and planned to bring them from Africa. Went a few meters down into an old mine shaft, super sketchy and creepy
- highest point of the road 4900m!
- stayed in basic concrete house with some beds. Played cambio (card game) with the group.En savoir plus
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Voyageur Flat tire?Couldn't call CAA?
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Voyageur Haha sometimes you just gotta figure it out yourself
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Voyageur Amazing!
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- 7 mai 2023, 09:47
- ☀️ 0 °C
- Altitude: 4 565 m
- Bolivie Departamento de Potosí Provincia Sud Lípez -22.480053, -67.45437522°28’48” S 67°27’16” W
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Uyuni - Day 2
7 mai 2023, Bolivie ⋅ ☀️ 0 °C
- first overnight was in tiny mostly abandoned village, 70 people that live in Queta Grande/Chico. Nice soccer turf!
- Laguna Hedionda nice viewpoint
- Laguna Kollpa: flamingos, cool salt flats, frozen water
- nearby salt extraction abandoned because not enough water there anymore
- Laguna Verde nice green colour!
- Hot springs relaxing and beautiful :)
- Geysers stinky and cool
- Laguna Colorado: so many flamingos! Hundreds.. And really red water
- overnight at 4300m Refugio Laguna Colorada
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- 8 mai 2023, 08:32
- Altitude: 4 562 m
- Bolivie Departamento de Potosí árbol de piedra -22.052167, -67.8824322°3’8” S 67°52’57” W
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Uyuni - Day 3
8 mai 2023, Bolivie
- Cold morning -7? Brrr
- 1st stop piedras del arbol: cool rocks look like trees
- Laguna with lots of flamingos, super salty shoreline to walk along, also found some eggs and dead flamingos
- Laguna Negra black lake cool rocks also
- drivers constantly chewing coca leaves
- lunch with goat head
- Lots of quinoa farms here, lots of farmers in the field harvesting, drying. Tried some quinoa beer: not very good
- for our last night, a fancy(ish) salt hotel! Pretty cool, it is a building out of salt bricks, with salt on the floors and beds made of salt aswell.
- after checking in to the hotel, drove out to the famous Uyuni salt flat for sunset! Incredibly beautiful, it’s enormous, so flat that it doesn’t really make sense, and really pure white salt on the ground! So cool and we got an awesome sunset too.En savoir plus
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Voyageur Could have taken the blue explorer!😁
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- 9 mai 2023, 07:58
- ⛅ 0 °C
- Altitude: 3 661 m
- Bolivie Departamento de Potosí Tahua -20.241488, -67.62822820°14’29” S 67°37’42” W
Jour 37
Uyuni - Day 4
9 mai 2023, Bolivie ⋅ ⛅ 0 °C
Awake at 5am to drive out to the flats again for Sunrise. This time stopped at the island lookout to get a view from a bit higher. Really amazing sunrise, and the flats just go on and on in pure white. Only annoying thing is other people. Why can’t people just shut up and enjoy nature peacefully! Always talking…
Had breakfast and drove out to take cheesy perspective pictures which was fun!
Stopped at an old Salt hotel in the middle of the flats, where they also started the famous Dakar race a few years ago.
Exit through the gift shops: Souvenir shop/salt factory thing with some explanation of making the salt bricks.
So many French people! Seriously I think 70% of people I overheard were French! I don’t know why.
Last stop at a strange train cemetery, would be a great place for a photoshoot with malina. Then we finished the tour in Uyuni! Really awesome 4 days, I loved it! Only thing is it would be nice to have more time to explore solo some places.
Then watched the champions league game at a restaurant with the others and waited for the night bus to La Paz.En savoir plus
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- 10 mai 2023, 11:32
- ☁️ 12 °C
- Altitude: 3 651 m
- Bolivie La Paz -16.497447, -68.13822216°29’51” S 68°8’18” W
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La Paz
10 mai 2023, Bolivie ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C
Arrived early morning on the night bus, then at 10am did a Walking tour of La Paz:
- very strange: there’s a big Prison right in downtown La Paz, but it only has 10 guards around the outside and none inside. It functions as a weird community/capitalist market for prisoners that pay rent to rent better fancy living conditions, can have their family live with them, have jobs in the prison etc. it’s famous for cocaine dealing apparently. Used to be tourist unofficial tours to go in but it sounds really sketchy and not allowed anymore. Bizarre.
- walked to the witches market, where you can buy powders and potions for healing etc. also can buy llama Fetusses. Tradition to offer a llama Fetus when you build a house. Also a myth/maybe true?? that they do it with live human when building a huge building
- walking through the markets, you see lots of women (cholitas) wearing traditional skirts and bowler hats. Hats are too small because an Italian originally exported a bunch to South America and assumed they have small heads, then it became the traditional style to have a small hat.
- politics: president in 1940s hanged from lamppost, then they felt bad and made a statue for him
- in 1990s president took countries money and fled to US. Lots of political chaos in Bolivia and corruption.

After the tour I rode the City cable cars which was super cool! They built a big network that go all over the city as public transit instead of trains or whatever, and they are really modern and nice and you can see over the whole city! Super cool.

Had some beers and dinner with some guys from the hostel and then bed.En savoir plus
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Voyageur Omg...tell me those llamas aren't real! If they aren't....bring me back one 😁😁🦙
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If they are real, that's really creepy. [cp]
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Voyageur They are real!
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- 11 mai 2023, 12:02
- ☁️ 18 °C
- Altitude: 2 038 m
- Bolivie Departamento de La Paz Sacramento Bajo -16.246017, -67.78523316°14’46” S 67°47’7” W
Jour 39
The Death Road
11 mai 2023, Bolivie ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C
Day Biking Tour from La Paz to the “Death Road”. A 35km section of infamously dangerous road through a valley outside of the city. We drove first 45 minutes up to the summit La Cumbre at 4500m, surrounded by snowy peaks and barren high altitude slopes. Got our mountain bikes and cruises down the first warmup section of road, 22km on asphalt but still quite steep and twisty, with beautiful views down The valley. Then a quick bus ride further along to the start of the Death Road 💀. It is about 33km down a snaking, narrow, twisting road with huge drops of 100s of meters on the edge. Pretty scary, pretty cool! We biked down and it was safe as long as you go carefully and under control, but still scary when you think about being anywhere near the edge. I guess people have died falling from time to time… there is no normal traffic on the road anymore, since they built a new one in the next valley, and a big landslide had nearly destroyed a section that we had to walk our bikes through.

the ride took about 3 hours, it was Really fun and also super bumpy, my hands and butt are so sore despite the suspension. Also really cool to see the landscape change as we descended to about 1300m elevation, with the air warming and the area becoming thick jungle.

Then we had lunch and a beer at a jungle lodge thing and jumped in a pool before a long bus ride back to La Paz. Survived the Death Road! 🚵En savoir plus
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Voyageur Amazing adrenaline rush? But phew!! So glad you told us about this after doing the ride, not before 😅
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Voyageur Sounds like a fun day...although I'm glad it's you and not me...and that you waited to tell us about it until after.😉
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Voyageur Haha that was part of the plan!
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- 16 mai 2023, 09:34
- ☀️ 4 °C
- Altitude: 4 911 m
- Pérou Cusco Pitumarca Vinicunca -13.876062, -71.30784713°52’34” S 71°18’28” W
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Vinicunca (Rainbow Mountain)
16 mai 2023, Pérou ⋅ ☀️ 4 °C
Voyageur Very cool pics. Love the llamas? Alpacas?
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Voyageur Those mountains are amazing. Wonder how they were formed . . .
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- 16 mai 2023, 20:08
- 🌙 10 °C
- Altitude: 3 431 m
- Pérou Cusco Sacsaywaman Plaza de Armas Cusco -13.517872, -71.98330513°31’4” S 71°58’60” W
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Cusco
16 mai 2023, Pérou ⋅ 🌙 10 °C
After 16 hr bus ride and very chaotic border cording to Peru, I arrived in Cusco. 1st day I went to a fairly boring art museum in an old Incan fortress, then climbed the hill to Sacsayhuaman Incan ruins on the cliff overlooking Cusco. Pretty cool, then walked to some ruins and some more ruins and some more ruins. All kinda cool, but also after awhile it loses the excitement to be honest. Then caught a local bus back to the hostel. Over the next few days in Cusco I did the rainbow mountain tour, had some fun going to a bar/club with people from the hostel, checked out a couple more mediocre museums and got my shoes repaired at a repair shop. Was super cool actually, the shoe guys stand on the street pointing at your shoes and trying to get you to let them fix them. Then in a basement they have like 5 dudes with shoe repair machines and they sew and glue and melt your shoes back together. Sad we never fix things back home!

Cusco is fairly nice, very touristy but not in an annoying way, and there’s quite a lot to do. Next stop: Salkantay Trek to Machu Picchu!En savoir plus
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Voyageur Looks like the locals put on a welcome ceremonial dance in your honour, I assume?
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Voyageur Nice not to see any other tourists in your shots 😄
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- 17 mai 2023, 08:58
- ☀️ 8 °C
- Altitude: 3 828 m
- Pérou Cusco Mollepata Soray -13.428958, -72.56372813°25’44” S 72°33’49” W
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Salkantay Trek - Day 1
17 mai 2023, Pérou ⋅ ☀️ 8 °C
5am pickup and drive 3-4 bumpy hours to Challacancha village to start the Salkantay Trek to Machu Picchu.

Have 4 others in our group: a Swiss couple, a Romanian woman, and an American guy. Everyone is nice, maybe a little quiet but friendly. We will stay mostly together but hike independently so just at our own speeds.

First 2 hours beautiful hike along a valley, following a canal made by the Incas to bring water down the mountain. Cool hummingbirds! Purple flowers (lupins like in the Yukon). Amazing views of Humantay Mountain and Salkantay Mountain looming ahead.

Arrived at the Refugio in Soraypampa village. It’s a funny mix of very nice and very basic. For example: Flowers everywhere, comfy bed, fancy shower, amazing view, super nice family; But: no toilet seat, no door or wall at all between the bed and the toilet 😂

For lunch they showed us an Inca traditional cooking method of making a fire and a dome of heating rocks over it, throwing the potatoes and pots of chicken inside and then collapsing the rocks onto the it all, covering with herbs, grass, plastic tarps and then dirt and leaving this big mound to cook for half an hour. Delicious lunch of chicken, potatoes, veggies.

Then tiny nap and started the afternoon hike to Humantay Lake. About 500m elevation gain straight up the slope to a beautiful blue lake at the foot of Humantay mountain. Felt the altitude for sure but really good hike. Then back down to the lodge for dinner and early bed.En savoir plus
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Voyageur Wow, gorgeous views. Imagine living there, waking up to that every day?
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Voyageur Yeah amazing right!
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Voyageur Looks like a tremendous ending to a great trip. Staying with families must have been cool!
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