South America

January - April 2020

This is the website where I will be posting updates on my trip to South America!! Read more

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- Mar 19, 2020, 1:29pm
- ☁️ 9 °C
- Altitude: 56 m
- England Mole Valley Gatwick Gatwick Airport 51.15829, -0.15570151°9’30” N 0°9’21” W
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Coming home!! Part 6
March 19, 2020 in England ⋅ ☁️ 9 °C
We landed at Gatwick Airport and we are in our way home!
Traveler So very very pleased you made it home. ❤️
3/19/20Reply
Traveler What a relief.... glad you’re home xxx
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Traveler Good to know you are back Lara. xx
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- Mar 18, 2020, 9:56pm
- ⛅ 25 °C
- Altitude: 12 m
- Brazil Rio de Janeiro Galeão Praia das Flecheiras -22.818445, -43.24347722°49’6” S 43°14’37” W
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Coming home!! Part 5
March 18, 2020 in Brazil ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C
We are in Rio airport waiting to board our flight but the line is so long we are just going to wait. This is the last flight until we are back in London!
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- Mar 18, 2020, 12:20am
- 🌙 24 °C
- Altitude: 34 m
- Brazil Rio de Janeiro Leblon Praia do Leblon -22.986765, -43.22255322°59’12” S 43°13’21” W
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Coming home!! Part 4
March 18, 2020 in Brazil ⋅ 🌙 24 °C
We arrived in Rio! We are going to stay the night and explore tomorrow then get on our way home tomorrow!
Traveler Sorry to read that your trip is being cut short, but in this crazy time it seems the most sensible step. Hope you have a safe journey to England. And keep me posted of your plans here... seen the pics of your building site so hoping you have found a place... xxx
3/18/20Reply
Traveler Well done... such a mammoth journey xxx
3/18/20Reply
Traveler Not done yet! Still have to get on the Rio —> Gatwick leg this evening. 🤞🤞🤞
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- Mar 17, 2020, 5:04pm
- 🌧 20 °C
- Altitude: 29 m
- Argentina Buenos Aires Partido de Ezeiza José María Ezeiza Ministro Pistarini International Airport -34.815332, -58.53983734°48’55” S 58°32’23” W
Day 63
Coming home!! Part 3
March 17, 2020 in Argentina ⋅ 🌧 20 °C
We arrived in Buenos Aires! We are still stuck in the airport which is a shame because Buenos Aires is such as cool city! I’ll definitely come back and visit it soon!

We are about to get a 5 hour (?) flight to Brazil!Read more
Traveler Love that comment Lara xxxx
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- Mar 17, 2020, 12:28pm
- 🌧 22 °C
- Altitude: 485 m
- Argentina Cordoba Departamento de Capital Los Boulevares Pajas Blancas Airport -31.316165, -64.21259431°18’58” S 64°12’45” W
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Coming home!! Part 2
March 17, 2020 in Argentina ⋅ 🌧 22 °C
We arrived in Cordoba by aeroplane! Our next flight is in 2 hours so we are sitting down and I’m going to eat some pizza! (If they actually come and take our order, they act like we have the plague.)

The airport is almost empty!Read more
Traveler 😱 that’s unbelievable...hope you get your pizza 🍕
3/17/20Reply
Traveler Or should I say your flight and pizza ❤️
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Traveler Hmm
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- Mar 17, 2020, 9:59am
- ☁️ 20 °C
- Altitude: 1,234 m
- Argentina Salta Departamento Capital General Alvarado Martín Miguel de Güemes International Airport -24.844204, -65.47919524°50’39” S 65°28’45” W
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Coming home!!!!
March 17, 2020 in Argentina ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C
As some of you may know, we are cutting our trip just a little bit short because of the Coronavirus. We are going to finish the trip here (Salta, Argentina) because the borders will be closing soon for people coming out. It doesn’t feel like a holiday, as everyone is treating us differently, all the hotel staff stay very far away from us and won’t touch us etc. We even had to show our passports to the waiter before we could eat any food!

We arrived at the airport and immediately our flight had been cancelled and we were trying to get to Brazil (for our connecting flight to London) and so we were trying to negotiate our way into several flights to get to Brazil.

Funny story

I bought an alarm keychain in Colombia and when we were going through security the pin got pulled out by the machine in the conveyor belt and make a HUGE sound and it was so loud I thought someone had something bad in their case! 😂

I will be updating this blog post as we go through the days!

Wish us luck!Read more
Traveler Safe journey guys ...fingers crossed we will see you soon. ❤️❤️❤️
3/17/20Reply
Traveler See you soon Lara!
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- Mar 15, 2020, 7:04pm
- 🌧 14 °C
- Altitude: 2,370 m
- Argentina Jujuy Departamento de Tumbaya Purmamarca -23.745344, -65.50413523°44’43” S 65°30’15” W
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Lama hike
March 15, 2020 in Argentina ⋅ 🌧 14 °C
Now I know for sure that Llamas are super cute! They look just like camels and they always have a very smug face. My Llama was called Miski, which means sweet in Quechua, and he really was sweet! He tried to make friends with the dogs but they kept running away and then Miski got sad.

The organisation was trying to bring back the use of Llamas for transportation, and they carried out lunch all the way up the hill and we had some ham cheese and grapes while we watched the llamas rolling around and the dogs chasing rabbits! We each got to lead our own llama and my dad’s llama kept sneezing on him and making funny noises! My llama kept resting his head on my shoulder and putting his face in my face and my mum just took the photos!

After that my mum and dad went for a walk around the town and saw loads of pretty mountains as you can see in the photos! (I didn’t go because I was super tired after our llama walk!)Read more
Traveler 😂😂😂 I think it likes your dad.
3/17/20Reply
Traveler Morning Lara I’m sat here having my coffee reading your blog 😁 and enjoying it once again.... not surprised you are tired. ❤️
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- Mar 13, 2020, 6:45pm
- ☀️ 23 °C
- Altitude: 2,439 m
- Chile Antofagasta San Pedro de Atacama -22.910798, -68.20074122°54’39” S 68°12’3” W
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San Pedro de Atacama
March 13, 2020 in Chile ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
We are now in Chile! We are in a town called San Pedro de Atacama which is at the edge of the Atacama desert. The Atacama desert is supposed to be one of the driest places in the world. The average rainfall is 15 mm per year, however it has rained every day that we have been here, causing floods and powercuts in the shops and streets. The desert is a 600 mile plateau west of the Andes mountains.

The thing that I find most interesting is how much the desert looks like the planet Mars. In fact, the Atacama is often used for filming Mars scenes, and is being used by NASA to test instruments for Mars missions. It looks like Tatooine from Star Wars.

Yesterday we went to see La Valley de Luna and the Mars Valley. I couldn’t believe how alien the landscape looked for miles around us as far as the eye could see.

2 days ago we visited the geysers and hot springs in the Atacama desert called El Tatio. It was at 4320 metres altitude, which again made the air very thin and extremely cold. It is the 3rd largest geyser field in the world! The reason this was so amazing to watch is because this is still a seismically active area, with active volcanoes all around 🌋! Some of the geysers were spewing out water and boiling mud and our guide said it looks like the gateway to hell!

The town of San Pedro is really cute! There are LOADS of dogs all around! It looks like a wild west town! All the houses are built the same too!Read more
Traveler Just love to know where are you are and what happening it so fascinating. ❤️
3/13/20Reply
Traveler Wow Lara. You really are seeing some wonderful sights. You will have some fantastic memories of your experience. Lucky girl. xx
3/13/20Reply
Wow, Atacama desert, used to read about it in school, driest desert in the world, make sure u take some coconut water with u
3/15/20Reply
Traveler What a lovely narrative!!
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- Mar 9, 2020, 7:28pm
- ☁️ 5 °C
- Altitude: 4,532 m
- Bolivia Departamento de Potosí Provincia Sud Lípez -21.844379, -68.04006221°50’40” S 68°2’24” W
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Siloli Desert
March 9, 2020 in Bolivia ⋅ ☁️ 5 °C
The last 2 days were incredible days like no other as we moved towards San Pedro in Chile from Uyuni in Bolivia. We travelled by 4x4 through some amazing scenery including several lagoons with BRIGHT PINK FLAMINGOS 🦩!

The scenery seemed to change every hour! Every hour we were in a completely different alien landscape. We saw from volcanic rocks, to red and green lagoons full of flamingos! At one point it seemed as although we were on Mars!

I’m writing this Blog post from a hotel which is 4700m altitude. The air here is really thin and there was an old man using an oxygen cylinder in reception when we arrived. The electricity and hot water are all solar powered, so everything except the lights shuts down at 10pm...that includes the heating 🥶 and wifi.Read more
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- Mar 9, 2020, 10:28am
- ☁️ 14 °C
- Altitude: 3,669 m
- Bolivia Departamento de Potosí Laguna Cruzani Cocha -20.279535, -66.98252120°16’46” S 66°58’57” W
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Uyuni
March 9, 2020 in Bolivia ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C
Today has been a salty day...
After a short flight from La Paz to Uyuni, we first went to see a train cemetery. The idea was that Uyuni would be a big train intersection but it didn’t work out, so now there are lots of mostly rusted steam trains sitting in the middle of nowhere. My dad and I had lots of fun pretending we were in Red Dead Redemption 2! We pretended to rob people with out pretend guns an we pretended to drive the train! It was so much fun 🚂!

Next we drove to the salt flats and you could see all around you for miles without seeing other people. If there were cars far away they looked like hovercrafts because of the heat haze. At one point we stopped to take some silly photos which looked great because of the plain white background of the salt flats.

In the evening we went to watch the sunset at a place in the salt flats with 5 centimetres of water, and everything reflected off it as there was plain white underneath. It was like the world’s largest mirror!

Uyuni is supposed to have a great night sky but there were so many clouds we only saw 4 stars.Read more
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3/10/20Reply
love this photo. Crushing people with your feet, i think must have been a lot of fun doing these photos. And the background is unreal!
3/12/20Reply
💕 lovely
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