Bolivia | FindPenguins

Newest first

Trip start
March 30, 2016
Bolivia Traveler
Over the border
March 29, 2016 in Bolivia ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
Took a bus to the border town of La Quiaca Trundled our bags several blocks to the immigration, crossed over to Villazon in Bolivia & took a bus to Tupiza. Our first proper taste of Bolivia. Our room had a very ornate purple bed head, everyone was watching the Argentine/Bolivian World Cup qualifier and we had the first proper spice we've had for weeks in a Mexican restaurant. Saw a dog on a bench and a golden statue. So far so good.Read more
0 likes
Bolivia Traveler
1 1
Uyuni trip day 1
March 30, 2016 in Bolivia ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
Long drive through multicoloured and llama filled mountain roads to Bolivia's altiplano. Had lunch at the scruffy and remote mining town where Butch Cassidy & the Sundance kid died, having robbed the mine's payroll and been hunted down by Bolivian police.
Then finally reached the Salar de Uyuni, the worlds biggest salt flat. So big it's visible from space. 11,000sqkm vast expanse of white, flat salt in distinctive hexagonal shapes. Incredible, perspective sight. We drove for miles and miles over flat whiteness. Eventually reached Incahausi Island marooned in the middle. Lots of cacti and almost as many people. Strange to be in the middle of nothingness, with loads of tourists. But nevertheless, very spectacular.Read more
Debi Brock She fits nicely In the palm of your hand...who would have thunk it.
4/4/16Reply
Kay DyasPlease can you bring me back a llama? :)
4/6/16Reply
Kay Dyas So cool!
4/6/16Reply
Lola says ' did you lick it?' (the salt not the llama..!)
4/7/16Reply
1 like
Bolivia Traveler
1
More Uyuni day 1: Salt & cacti
March 30, 2016 in Bolivia ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
Here are the Incahausi Island cacti shots.
We stayed that night in a salt hotel - a hotel made entirely of salt!
Debi Brock I hope that you have room in your backpack to bring home some textiles!
4/4/16Reply
Kay DyasAmazing!
4/6/16Reply
1 like
Bolivia Traveler
Uyuni tour day 2: FindFlamingos.com
March 31, 2016 in Bolivia ⋅ ⛅ 36 °C
Drove away from the Salar past fields of quinoa - it grows well here as it's high and dry (over 4000m).
Passed a smoking volcano and some petrified lava.
Found flamingos - lot & lots of them on the beautiful lagunas. No penguins yet so we are thinking we should rename the blog...Read more
1 like
Bolivia Traveler
Www.findflamingos.com
March 31, 2016 in Bolivia ⋅ ⛅ 31 °C
Flamingos! Or as they are known here, flamencos.
1 like
Bolivia Traveler
Uyuni tour day 3
April 1, 2016 in Chile ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
Passed the Arbol de Peidra - The rock tree. Then some geothermal geezers and wonderfully hellish and stinky bubbling mud pools. Clare braved her feet in a hot spring stream.
1 like
Bolivia Traveler
1
Uyuni day 3: to the Chilean border
April 1, 2016 in Bolivia ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
Final glorious volcano & green lake - no flamingos on this one due to the arsenic. Then to our final night in a hostel attached to the park rangers office. The most remote place I think we've ever been - felt truly otherworldly. It was freezing cold, we were at about 4800m. Yes, that is me, Clare, jumping - just to get a little higher! I felt a little breathless after that.
There were guys cycling this route. Hats off to them.
Learnt some Quechuan words from the driver Johnny & cook Julia - ari, mana & haku = yes, no & let's go!Read more
Tim StevensonProfusion of purportedly preposterously pulchritudinous penguins peregrinating and perambulating pseudo-purposefully, potentially propitiously Prestwoodwards. (Possibly.) Hola
4/4/16Reply
From Mum/Mary - love the photo
4/4/16Reply
Kay DyasHow fab!
4/6/16Reply
1 like

Trip end
April 2, 2016