 | A Walk on the Moon
2009-09-02, La Paz, Bolivia. By: travelalex | | When the bus was trundling along to La Paz, the capital of Bolivia, we passed through the vast flat expanse of El Alto before it seamed like the ground just fell away, delivering a massive valley with... |
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 | Salar de Uyuni
2009-08-14, Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia. By: travelalex | | The taxi driver pulled into the bus station. "No Senior, no autobus. Tren! Station de tren". He looks at us confused "No tren, autobus a Potosi". "No no" we insist, "station de tren!" He shrugs off t... |
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 | The White City of the Americas
2009-08-07, Sucre, Bolivia. By: travelalex | | The city of Sucre was in the grips of celebrating the bicentenary of independence during the week we stayed we were treated to a plethora of actives. Our hostel was situated behind a school where the... |
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 | Uyuni
2009-07-21, Uyuni, Bolivia. By: rossnkaren | | Uyuni marked the start of our crazy ‘get to Rio in a week without flying’ journey. We arrived in the dark, after a full day on a bus, to a power cut. With no time to waste, we went straight to a hos... |
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 | Until victory always, Homeland or death!
2009-07-28, Samaipata, Bolivia. By: travelalex | | I felt bad for having such lazy days lately that I decided to thrust myself headfirst into some culture and spend a day and a night exploring the nearby historical Jesuit Missions. Jon who wasn't fee... |
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 | Sucre
2009-07-15, Sucre, Bolivia. By: rossnkaren | | In the latest James Bond film he finds himself stuck in the middle of the Bolivian desert. Luckily he treks to the nearest road and waves down a local bus straight away that takes him back to La Paz.... |
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 | Lazy Days
2009-07-20, Santa Cruz, Bolivia. By: travelalex | | We hired a bicycle and rode down to the Municipal in Bonito, a bend in the river where the fish swim in the clearest water you've ever seen in your life and when the sun in out, so to are the bikinis.... |
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 | Samaipata
2009-07-11, Samaipata, Bolivia. By: rossnkaren | | Getting to Samaipata was a pain. We had to break up the journey with a stop in Cochabamba. Karen was convinced that a lack of shower gel (and probably use of soap) was responsible for the Jorvik Vik... |
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 | La Paz
2009-07-05, La Paz, Bolivia. By: rossnkaren | | The journey to La Paz was different. Our bus travelled alongside Lake Titicaca for an hour or so and then pulled into a largish village/small town. Almost everyone got off the bus. Everyone apart from... |
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 | Salt Flats are FREEZING!!
2009-07-12, Uyuni, Bolivia. By: wcaruso | | Hello family and friends! We just arrived in Salta, Argentina after an intense last few days of sight seeing and traveling! We left La Paz on a night bus that took us on a BUMPY road for 8 hours to ... |
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 | Salar De Uyuni
2009-07-12, Uyuni, Bolivia. By: kwarne | | We just finished the Salt Flat tour and it was amazing! We took a night bus from La Paz and arrived in Uyuni the following morning around 7am. It was about a 12 hour bus ride, and only the first 2 ho... |
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 | Copacabana
2009-07-02, Copacabana, Bolivia. By: rossnkaren | | We used Copacabana as a base to get to Isla del Sol on the Bolivian side of Lake Titicaca - a lake that is so enormous that, at times, you forget you are looking at a lake at all and think you are see... |
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| Salt Flats
2009-07-07, Uyuni, Bolivia. By: kwarne | | We are off to Salar de Uyuni tonight so see the infamous salt falts of Bolivia. They are the biggest in the world and supposed to be absolutely amazing. We see lagoons, hot springs, flamingoes, salt h... |
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| Bolivia!
2009-07-06, La Paz, Bolivia. By: wcaruso | | Well after a 6 hour delay in the airport in Cuzco, we finally made it to Bolivia! We got here on Thursday night and our hostel is huge! There's only 8 people in our room though which is nice, consid... |
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| Worlds Most Dangerous Road
2009-07-05, La Paz, Bolivia. By: kwarne | | Yesterday we road "The Worlds Most Dangerous Road", otherwise known as "Death Road". We had read about it earlier, but decided not to do it...considering the name. But then when we told people we were... |
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| La Paz
2009-07-04, La Paz, Bolivia. By: kwarne | | Bolivia is amazing so far. It is absolutely gorgeous...and cheap! The currency here is about 7 to 1, so we are taking advtange of activities. There are mountains everywhere and the scenery is gorgeous... |
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| Bolivia
2009-07-02, La Paz, Bolivia. By: kwarne | | We finally made it to Bolivia! We decided to fly here since the roads are still closed from Peru to Bolivia. Our flight was a little more than we wanted to spend, but the only way here was a bus that ... |
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 | Sucre to Santa Cruz
2009-04-15, Santa Cruz, Bolivia. By: frankieboy | | I am getting too old to be sleeping in airports but more on that later. Speaking of airports this was a little weird. The airport in Sucre was open but I was the only one there for about two hours. Gr... |
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 | Uyuni
2009-04-13, Uyuni, Bolivia. By: frankieboy | | Uyuni
What a great place. Not Uyuni itself but I spent 3 days exploring the salt lake, desert, and Andes.
Bolivia seems to have some different attractions. There is a prison that you can visit il... |
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| The World's Most Dangerous Highway
2009-04-13, La Paz, Bolivia. By: frankieboy | | Quading in the Valley of the Moon
I use to say that to mountain bike you had to realize your limits, bike within them and trust your bike. I thought I could apply the same to quading and not get ki... |
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| Higher, Higher, Higher
2009-04-13, La Paz, Bolivia. By: frankieboy | | La Paz
Finally some decent beer in South America. Hostel has its own microbrewery. La Paz is the highest capital in the world. The airport is 4058 above sea level and you can notice as soon as you ge... |
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 | Drugs, bikes and hookers
2009-03-29, Santa Cruz, Bolivia. By: frankieboy | | Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz is Bolivia’s second largest city and most affluent. It is a nice enough city with typical cafes, restaurants, and bars. Great wine and steak and the best cocaine that I have t... |
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 | Wonderful town
2009-01-15, San Ignacio de Velasco, Bolivia. By: jlaramayo | | San Ignacio is located in the south-central region of the province of Velasco. It is connected to Santa Cruz via bus lines utilizing a dirt highway to San Javier in the province of Ñuflo de Chávez. Fr... |
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| Amazon basis by plane
2009-01-15, Riberalta, Bolivia. By: jlaramayo | | Hello, just few months ago I traveled to Riberalta to get a plane and fly to a little community named Puerto Cavinas, that is in the extrem north of La Paz (department) in the border of Beni. |
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 | The Worlds Most Dangerous Road
2008-12-04, La Paz, Bolivia. By: GBrownlie | | After being in Bolivia for a day we found out about the worlds most dengerous road -
Starting high in the rarefied air of the Bolivian Andes at 4,700 metres, the steep and bumpy La Paz-to-Coroico r... |
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 | Rocky road from Chile to Bolivia
2008-12-01, Uyuni, Bolivia. By: GBrownlie | | Our next adventure was a 3 day jeep journey from Chile to Bolivia. 7 of us plus the driver squashed into 1 jeep and travelled over very rocky desert tracks. The scenery was just phenomenal! Three f... |
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 | La Paz and Hotel Torino
2008-08-01, La Paz, Bolivia. By: pedrofletc | | Oh dear. No Western comforts.
La Paz is set in a deep Andean Valley and surrounded by the most appalling shanty towns. There are hardly any private cars but thousands of minibuses, each with a guy... |
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 | Copacabana and Isla del Sol
2008-07-30, Isla del Sol, Bolivia. By: pedrofletc | | The words lazy disorder, poverty, shyster and the phrase “no hay problemo” neatly summarise our experience of Bolivia so far. We couldn't buy a 15 Boliviano hat because the smallest note we had was 20... |
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