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  • Izzy Ives
  • Sam Hadley
  • Izzy Ives
  • Sam Hadley

South America ✈️🌎

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  • South America ✈️🌎
    Drawings from people around Incan eraGrow from organic matter which collects dust and grows over millenia. Later rising to surface.Ancient pestle and mortar

    Mendoza part 1: National Parks

    28 Oca–1 Şub 2024, Arjantin ⋅ ☀️ 31 °C

    Rented a car and broke out the tent again to explore the regions around Mendoza. Had a couple nights in national parks: Ischigualasto and Talampaya. Both are full of triassic era geology and fossils.
    The camping wasn't fantastic: when the air temperature reaches 37 in the day, the sand has a tendency to absorb the heat and send it back up into your tent giving it about the same temperature inside!    Okumaya devam et

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    Inca bridge - formed by mineral deposits over a glacier which remained when the glacier meltedConfluencia Base CampSunset view from campsiteVineyards!Wine!

    Mendoza part 2: Aconcagua

    2–7 Şub 2024, Arjantin ⋅ ☀️ 12 °C

    Moved to the mountains for a couple days (much more pleasant camping temperatures!) Hiked to the first Aconcagua base camp at 3300m. Full height is 6960m, making it the highest mountain outside of the Himalayas!
    Then went back into Mendoza town where we did a bicycle vineyard tour - don't think I've ever paid only £2 to taste 3 wines before!
    (Also met some cute kittens)    Okumaya devam et

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    San Felipe de Neri
    Castillo de la GlorietaTomb of Francisco and Clotilde Argandoña

    Sucre part 1: churches and castles

    23–27 Şub 2024, Bolivya ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C

    Sucre is the capital of Bolivia, also known as the white city due to the beautiful colonial architecture. We visited an old monastery which had gorgeous rooftop views of the city.
    We also went out of town to the home of Bolivia's only "monarchy". Prince Francisco Argandoña and Princess Clotilde. Bolivians related to the Spanish royal family, they were unable to have their own children so dedicated their lives to humanitarian issues and caring for local orphans. Their home, Castillo de la Glorieta, was built by a Swiss architect who designed each room in different styles.Okumaya devam et

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    Sucre part 2: dinosaurs!

    23–27 Şub 2024, Bolivya ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C

    We visited the largest dinosaur footprint wall in the world. The main layer is limestone and has over 5000 footprints from around 68 million years ago. A couple other layers are visible from where the wall has eroded showing more footprints from different eras. The wall is upright as it was pushed that way with the formation of the Andes as the Nazca plate went under the South American plate, crumpling much of the land.
    We also saw a pretty sunset and went to a cool Mexican place!    Okumaya devam et

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    Potosi

    28 Şub–1 Mar 2024, Bolivya ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C

    Potosí wasn't the nicest place to visit - at 4,100m the air is thin which is exacerbated further by the 50 year old buses and taxis puffing out fumes constantly (our COVID masks came out for the first time in a few years!)
    It shows some of the worst colonial effects in the world. The silver mine there (which we chose not to visit) has been a graveyard for millions of miners/slaves over the centuries. The silver trade resulted in 16th century Potosi having a population of over 200,000! It produced 60% of worldwide silver (helping Spain's treasury nicely). Since then the silver dried out and the city is now incredibly poor.
    We did visit the mint (Casa de Moneda) where they manufactured the silver into coins. No longer in use as they can't afford to run the mint.    Okumaya devam et

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    The volcano in the background is 80km awayAn old salt hotel (made fully of salt) where we had lunchTHE DINOSAURS ARE BACKOur group: Mara, Till, Kit, Catherine, Sam, and meStorm rolling inLunch in the salt hotel

    Salar de Uyuni

    2 Mart 2024, Bolivya ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C

    Salt flats tour day 1/3.

    Had a very fun day getting completely covered in salt and taking the most touristy photos believable.

    The train is from a train cemetery just outside the salt flats - when the mining industry was more profitable the Americans and Europeans provided trains for transporting mined goods. Nowadays the trains have been left to decay.Okumaya devam et

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    ViscachaSaying bye to our guide Ebe

    Salt flats tour desert day

    3–4 Mar 2024, Bolivya ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C

    Our salt flats tour took us into the desert for days 2 and 3. We got to see the incredible landscapes, some of which were up at around 5000 m! Saw lots of alpaca/llama/vicuña/related animals and a bunch of flamingos. Even some friendly viscachas (related to chinchillas). Had our second sunset by the geysers and then after sunset watched the stars from the natural hot baths.Okumaya devam et

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    La Paz

    5–9 Mar 2024, Bolivya ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C

    Spent a few days chilling in La Paz, recovering after the salt flats. Stayed centrally near the witches market where they all have dead baby alpacas hung up for good luck and sold for use in cultural rituals. Took a ride around on the city gondolas which are used as a genius public transport system.Okumaya devam et

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    Death Road

    7 Mart 2024, Bolivya ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C

    A road that was historically known for causing hundreds of deaths each year as it was the only road between La Paz and some towns nearby which provided food for the city and it is rather too narrow and sheer edged for two vehicles to pass each other. It is now closed to most traffic and open for cyclists! The road stretches about 60km from 4,600m down to 1,200m along the edge of a cliff down through a valley. Had a great day cycling down and then got to relax in the pool down the bottom.

    (Don't worry I chose one of the best reviewed/older companies with the best safety precautions that provided very good bikes and safety gear)    Okumaya devam et

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    "ferries" for transporting cars over to the peninsula where Copacabana is located

    Isla del Sol

    10 Mart 2024, Bolivya ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C

    On our way into Peru we stopped off for the afternoon on Lake Titicaca at Copacabana (not a nice place), where we took a short boat ride over to Isla del Sol, an island which used to be inhabited by Incas. It is currently still inhabited primarily by indigenous aymara people.Okumaya devam et

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    Boat made from reeds, similar ones were used to leave the shore hundreds of years ago.
    The straw houses are more typical, but most people now live in the corrugated iron onesPre school buildingPuno when coming back to shore

    Puno / Islas de Los Uros

    11 Mart 2024, Peru ⋅ ☁️ 8 °C

    Crossing into Peru we stopped in Puno for the night and I (Sam didn't want to wake up) went on a tour of the floating islands on Lake Titicaca. The islands have been inhabited consistently for hundreds of years and are built from lake reeds all piled on top of each other. The uros people originally left the mainland on reed boats, which they tied together when on the water so multiple families could live together. As the boats disintegrated they realised they could make islands of the same material. Each island requires constant maintenance and addition of new reeds each week.Okumaya devam et

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    LIGHTNING!

    Cusco

    11–15 Mar 2024, Peru ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C

    Cusco is full of beautiful large squares and old churches and buildings. Unfortunately it's also full of people trying to sell you things or polish your shoes constantly. They don't seem to realise that walking boots don't need polishing!
    There's also a really nice market (which we of course forgot to take a photo of) selling everything where we stocked up on nuts and coca leaves (where cocaine comes from) and coca sweets for our hike - they help with the altitude. A highlight was seeing 30 different fruit juice sellers all leaning out at the same time to try and hand us their (identical) menus!    Okumaya devam et

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    Glad we got up there early...

    Rainbow Mountain / Montaña Vinikunka

    12 Mart 2024, Peru ⋅ ☁️ 10 °C

    Had a very early morning to visit Rainbow Mountain near Cusco, were collected at 3am ready to be there before all the other tourists! The colours are formed by different minerals in the ground - iron, copper, etc. It was only discovered around 10 years ago when all the ice that used to cover the region melted.Okumaya devam et

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    Humantay glacier
    Humantay LakeOur group and our guide RenéRitual for Pachamama (mother earth)Salkantay GlacierMudslides wiped out the roadFirst view of Machu Picchu from across the valleyMudslides wiped out the railway trackMaybe shouldn't have gone in rainy season1

    Salkantay Trek / Machu Picchu

    15–19 Mar 2024, Peru ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C

    5 day Trek to Machu Picchu, the common replacement for the Inca Trail which is too expensive and regulated nowadays (and too easy of course). Salkantay is over 70 km, with its highest point of 4600 m, reached on day 2 before heading down 2000 m the same day.

    Day 1: 10 km, hiked up to Humantay Lake, situated under the glacier.
    Day 2: 22 km, up 600m to cross the Salkantay pass, then down 2000m to our accomodation.
    Day 3: 18 km (?), walking along the road through the valley, having to pass quite a few sections of mudslide which destroyed the road. Got a lift the final section. Then had the afternoon in some thermal baths.
    Day 4: 22 km, up 700 m, then down 1000 through the slippiest mud to ever exist. Then had a final 10 km along the railway track to Aguas Calientes.
    Day 5: up the ~1500 steps to Machu Picchu in the dark with so much rain the steps became a river and we were soaked through to our skin. The fog obscured much of the view and we were super cold and wet but at least there weren't many other tourists around! Will have to go back to see Machu Picchu in dry season another time!    Okumaya devam et

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    Queso helado, ie Frozen cheese. Not really cheese, more like spiced ice creamVisiting room, families would sit on the other side of the gratesKitchen of a middle class nunArea damaged by earthquakes. Much of the convent was renovated after earthquakes in the 70sLaundry area3 volcanoes are over the city

    Arequipa

    22–23 Mar 2024, Peru ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C

    Spent a couple of nights in Arequipa which is supposedly the most beautiful city in Peru due to many of the central buildings being made from white volcanic stone.
    We visited an old convent there which has been in use for around 500 years, some nuns are still there but living in a different part. The nuns when they moved in would have to pay their dowry to the convent, and their families would build their lodging. So you could tell which nuns were from rich families by how nice their rooms and kitchens were!Okumaya devam et

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    Paracas

    26 Mart 2024, Peru ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C

    Spent one day in Paracas, opted not to do the marine reserve because we've probably seen enough penguins (no idea how Sam believes that, there's no such thing as enough penguins!) and we were sort of expecting there to be a beach to hang out on. Had a nice day anyway - did a Pisco sours class, the Peruvian/Chilean national cocktail. And had a look round the natural reserve on land, a lot of desertiness.Okumaya devam et

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    Guinea pig for dinner anyone?

    Huaraz

    29 Mar–2 Nis 2024, Peru ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C

    The hiking capital of Peru. Spent a few days here prepping for our Huayhuash trek. Quite an untouristy city compared to most we visited in Peru, and surrounded by beautiful mountains! Got to see a few Easter celebrations while there.Okumaya devam et

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    Some steep, scary, slippery scrambling involvedChurup from aboveLaguna Churupita (little churup)

    Laguna Churup

    31 Mart 2024, Peru ⋅ ☁️ 8 °C

    While Sam decided to watch Arsenal have a boring match with Man City, I went out on an acclimatisation hike to Laguna Churup, and Churupita. Top of the hike was around 4,600 m and I was fully alone on the mountain! Most people only go to the main lagoon which comes first. Completely beautiful.Okumaya devam et

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