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  1. Failing in the Salt Flats (Salar de Uyuni) and crossing to Ollague, Chile

    Blog: Trip Down - 2 May 2010

    After leaving La Paz mid-morning I arrived at a hot-springs hotel that had been suggested to me by Phillip (a German driving a Land Cruiser around S.A.) as a way to avoid staying in Oruro (a “shithole” in his words).   I didn’t spend the extra $25 to have a room with a private hotspring so [...]

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  2. Happy New Year from Sucre!

    Blog: Cogs Watch - 12 January 2010

    To be honest, I can’t say I was sad to leave La Paz in the end. On top of the drink spiking incident we’d also found out that there were no longer tours of the San Pedro prison since an uprising a few months ago.

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