Bolivia
We went for a 3 days tour, starting in the city of Uyuni, one of the most important minery cities of south America. We were in a 4x4 car with our great guide Jaime, a couple from Tunisia, Juultje, Ross, Nacho and me.
The first day we drove through a salt desert for hours were we took of these funny pictures . We passed part of the route of the Dakar rally, went to a cactus Island in the middleRead more
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We started the second day visiting couple of blue lagoons (situated 4200m above sea level). There we saw different species of flamengos and birds.
After an amazing lunch seeing one of the flamengos lake we drove to "another planet". We visit the national park of "Reserva Nacional de Fauna Andina Eduardo Avaroa" were we found amazing landscapes like a huge red lagoon, geisers inside of an oldRead more
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We are so sorry that we have been so disconnected from the world the last couple of days!
Thursday we arrived to La Paz, really late in the night. You can see that Bolivia is a poor country. There are barely paved roads. We didn't knew that we would arrive so late, we took lunch at 12:00 and arrived at 23:00 without any food! We didn't had snacks with us haha.. oopsie!
Then we arrived andRead more
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On the third day we woke up early and drove a lot of hours. We visited a lake and some interesting rocks of volcano stone. They got shaped by wind, water and sand.
The picture of the flamingos is from the day before actually.
BoliviaWe arrived at 6am in La Paz on Tuesday, after a 10 hour drive from Uyuni (the south of Bolvia, where we were on the border with Chile). Nacho and Iris didn't sleep much, because they were used to better buses (and Iris had to pee but the toiletdoor couldn't open haha). Roos and Juul slept good because their previous bus was even worse than this one. So when we came to the Wild Rover Hostel (whichRead more
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At the hostel, we unpacked a bit. Hristo went to sleep since he was feeling a bit feverish. I went to q nearby pizza place. It was a small family run place with an old style wood fired earthen oven.
After the food it was back to the hostel for some sleep.
Bolivia
We arrived at La Paz around 8:30 am. From the bus stop, we took a taxi to the apartment where we were to stay. It was a nice big studio apartment with a kitchen and a living room as well.
We spent the morning repacking our bags, gathering all the clothes for laundry, having a shave after almost a week, a nice good shower and basically just calming down the pace.
Bolivia
From the airport, we took the micro to the city center. It was dark by the time we changed from our shorts to pants and jackets at the airport.
The city of La Paz was like a sprinkling of pearls along multiple mountains as the lights turned on and illuminated the hillsides.
It took us about 20 min to reach the city. We walked the 650 mts from the drop off place to our hostel (Hospedaje Yanacocha).Read more
BoliviaWell, quite frankly, we had no idea what to expect: maybe another gray, dodgy, overcrowded Latin american metropolis. A little gray indeed, but different than expected: A peculiar city, drenched into a narrow desert valley with up to 500 meter high walls on both sides, so narrow in some places, that only one street and the river fit in, overlooked by snow covered 6000 meter high mountains. LuckilyRead more
Bolivia
1.) why do many streets in La Paz have street signs in Chinese?
2.) why is the "museum of bolivian coast" so hilarious?
3.) just a funny picture ;-)
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You might also know this place by the following names:
Plaza Murillo
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