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Photo of the Week: Stone Tree in Bolivian Desert
Blog: Never Ending Voyage - 17 October 2010
The Arbol de Piedra (Stone Tree) is one of the many amazing sites we came across on our four day jeep tour of the southwest of Bolivia. Crazy rock formations are set amongst a vast desert flanked by chocolate coloured volcanoes.
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4 Of The Most Dangerous & Crazy Roads Around The World
Blog: As We Travel - 17 October 2010
Traveling equals a lot of time spent using different kinds of transport. In New Zealand we spent 60 hours traveling around on buses.
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An Off the Beaten Track Tour of Sucre Restaurants
Blog: Never Ending Voyage - 14 October 2010
The worst part of being a vegetarian in Bolivia isn’t not being able to find anything to eat (we always can) but not being able to try the local food.
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Photo of the Week: Simon with Monkeys in Samaipata, Bolivia
Blog: Never Ending Voyage - 10 October 2010
We visited the small animal refuge Zoo El Refugio in Samaipata, a mountain village in Bolivia. The refuge has a number of rescued monkeys that roam free and they took a liking to Simon. This one didn’t want to get left behind so he came along on our walk sitting on Simon’s head!
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Sucre Spanish School Review
Blog: Never Ending Voyage - 7 October 2010
I have taken group Spanish classes in England and Buenos Aires and had a number of private teachers but my best experience so far has been taking classes at Sucre Spanish School.
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Photo of the Week: Llamas in Bolivia
Blog: Never Ending Voyage - 3 October 2010
We took a four day jeep tour through Southwest Bolivia, staying in small villages in very basic accommodation. This group of llamas greeted us at one ‘hotel’ and one of them even snuck into our bedroom!
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September Update: Bolivia (finally)!
Blog: Never Ending Voyage - 30 September 2010
At the beginning of September we finally left Salta (leaving our beautiful apartment and new friends was hard) and made it to Bolivia! We’ve been here three weeks so far and are loving it.
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Tupiza, Bolivia: Horse Riding in the Wild West
Blog: Never Ending Voyage - 24 September 2010
Icy cold winds blow what little air there is through the dizzying altitudes of the Bolivian Andes as buses born before the War hurry along the windy roads, wheels suicidally kissing the lips of impossibly high cliffs. We were apprehensive about this foreboding country. Here, nature is in charge and she cares little for you.
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Ga-ga for Titicaca. Bolivia
Blog: Chronicles of a year-long break-up - 21 August 2010
Lake Titicaca is the kind of place that you cannot help but enjoy despite sunstroke, stomach bugs, dehydration, borderline starvation and crippling altitude sickness. Nonetheless, we went out of our way to ruin it for ourselves. Plan A was to follow Lonely Planet’s advice to shun ferries leaving directly from the tourist mecca of Copacabana [...]
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As easy as riding a bike. The world’s most dangerous road, La Paz, Bolivia
Blog: Chronicles of a year-long break-up - 20 August 2010
“If you go over the edge you have no hope of surviving. You fall for around 600m before you even reach anything you can grab onto.” “At points the road only stretches across for 3m before ending in a sheer cliff face and a drop of around 1,000m.” “Sometimes trucks and buses just come out [...]
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Smelly, dirty, lovely La Paz, Bolivia
Blog: Chronicles of a year-long break-up - 16 August 2010
Although La Paz is more likely to wake you up with a hangover and a chestful of fumes than pancakes with a side of bacon, it is an abolutely intoxicating city. Actually I think insane is the only word to decribe a place that is so simultaneously inviting and intimidating that it has to be [...]
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A short stack of home. Samaipata, Bolivia
Blog: Chronicles of a year-long break-up - 14 August 2010
A little mountain town outside of the sprawling, characterless Bolivian/Brazilian metropolis of Santa Cruz was the last place in the world we had expected to find ourselves feeling at home. Yet our two day stay in Samaipata had somehow turned into five days of guiltfree pleasure. Mornings consumed by difficult decisions such as whether to [...]
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Sweet as Sucre, Bolivia
Blog: Chronicles of a year-long break-up - 10 August 2010
Dubbed the White City because property in the central area must by law be painted white, Sucre dazzles on first sight. Leafy plazas, pristine colonial giants and more churches and cathedrals than you can shake a stick at go almost unnoticed by well-heeled business people and indigenous women in colourful shawls as they bustle about [...]
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All that glitters ain’t silver. Potosi, Bolivia
Blog: Chronicles of a year-long break-up - 7 August 2010
Potosi was quite a pleasant surprise. We had heard from travellers who had already been there that it was just your average industrial town with not a lot more to offer than the huge silver mine at its core. So when we came over the last of many mountains on our smokey, bone-jarring ride from [...]
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This town ain’t big enough for the eight of us. Tupiza, Bolivia
Blog: Chronicles of a year-long break-up - 6 August 2010
It was supposed to be just Gary and I travelling south from Uyuni to Tupiza. We had planned to hang out for a few days, shoot the breeze over a few beers, scrape the salt off the inside of our eyelids and eventually book a two-day horse riding tour of the area. According to Lonely [...]
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What’s flat and salty and dusty all over? San Pedro de Atacama to Uyuni, Bolivia
Blog: Chronicles of a year-long break-up - 30 July 2010
For a while it seemed as if it would never happen. It felt like we were doomed to spend eternity bumping and crawling across a barren wasteland, forced by protruding rocks and roaming livestock to take the longest route across the desert plain. Then just as we started to give up hope there it was, [...]
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11 South America Backpacking with Indie Travel Podcast – podcast
Blog: Heather on her travels - 24 July 2010
In Podcast 11 I talk to Craig and Linda from Indie Travel Podcast about their 4 months travelling with friends in South America, visiting Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina and Uruguay. They pick out the highlights of their trip, and give some advice on travelling by bus, how to avoid scams and pickpockets and how they [...]
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Bolivia’s Isla del Sol in photos
Blog: The Brink of Something Else - 6 July 2010
I’ve never been much of a tranquility-hunter on my travels. I like bustling cities, heaving markets, heaving surf, sweaty crowded clubs with a pounding beat. I enjoy museums and galleries, grand old libraries with green desk lights and the smell of polished wood and musty, dusty old books; but I enjoy them for the mental [...]
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How to take a taxi in South America
Blog: The Indie Travel Podcast - 30 June 2010
Taxi culture varies from country to country - learn how to catch a taxi in the South American countries of Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina and Uruguay.How to take a taxi in South America is happily produced by The Indie Travel Podcast, proud winners of Lonely Planet's "Best Podcast" -- Check out our free podcast in iTunes, free online travel magazine, or the
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World Cup Reports from Kiva Fellows Around the World
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 30 June 2010
Kiva Fellows share their World Cup experiences from Mongolia, Rwanda, Mexico, Bolivia, Togo, Sri Lanka, Chile and Kyrgyzstan
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Day 139: End of the Road - Latin America
Blog: Diaries of a Vagabonding Couple - 30 June 2010
Rio de Janeiro seen from Corcovado - the world's most jaw droppingly gorgeous city This is it. Our journey in Latin America has come to an epic end. Who would have thought we’d travel through Central and South America by land, with only a hopping flight between the two. We’ve clocked 450 hours of bus and boat time, covered 28,000 kilometers of gravel, dirt and asphalt (3 times the flying
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Indigenous Weaving Art In Sucre Bolivia
Blog: Two Backpackers - 25 June 2010
On our second day in Sucre we visited the Museo de Arte Indigena or Museum of Indigenous Art. The museum is part of a project to revive hand-woven crafts of Bolivia. The exhibition provides a historical time line of the Candelaria, Potolo and Tarabuco styles of weaving. There are ancient and current tools on display [...]
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Hiking With Condortrekkers In Sucre Bolivia
Blog: Two Backpackers - 8 June 2010
We joined a 3-day trek with Condortrekkers, a non-profit tour company based out of Sucre, Bolivia. Our tour included walking on an Inca Trail, visiting the crater town of Maragua and seeing ancient fossilized dinosaur footprints. On day one we took a microbus from Sucre to a nearby small town where our group of 7 [...]
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Snapshots: 玻利維亞 Bolivia
Blog: Diaries of a Vagabonding Couple - 3 June 2010
Endless salt flats of Uyuni Extracting salt from the world's largest salt flat Salt cones, Uyuni salt flats Salt cones and 4x4, Uyuni salt flats Light streaks burn the horizon at dawn, Uyuni salt flats Thermal waters in Bolivian Andes Vicuñas grazing before relentless mountains Bolivian Dreamscapes More Snapshots...
