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3rd July 2014
Today i went to an internet cafe in the morning to upload the last version of this website, after this we went to the local market , where you could buy everything from fruits and vegetables to tv’s and toys , there we bought more snacks and toys for the salt flats and went back […]
2nd July 2014
Today we took the bus from Potosi, to our next stop and the start of the salt flat expedition , Uyuni , a city that was abandoned and repopulated and now looks a little bit like a ghost town once in uyuni we went to grab something to eat at a local restaurant, which was […]
1st July 2014
Today i woke up ealry still feeling sick, but wanting to visit the silver mines i pushed ahead we first went to the miners market to buy gifts for the miners ( juice and coca leaves) and got dressed in the miners uniform, once we were dressed up we went to the silver refinery to […]
30th June 2014
Today we took a private bus to Potosi a miner town situated at 4070 m high, and the highest town with a population of more than 10 000 inhabitants apart from the bus, i did nothing all day but sleep and be sick from altitude sickness/food poisoning/ or the flu
29th June 2014
today we got up to the center of the city to go rockclimbing we first took a bus to the outskirts of the city and walked about 15 minutes to a rock cliff over seeing the city , where our guides set up the ropes for us to climb we did different levels from 5A […]
28th June 2014
today we arived by night bus early so we went to get breakfast in a restaurant close by after breakfast, we wondered around the city for a while, and i decided to go find legos for pictures in the bolivia salt plains which are coming up soon, finding that lego took me about an hour […]
27th June 2014
today we went to a mexican restaurant to grab a quick lunch , before i headed to one of the tallest buildings in the city and abseiled down it for most of it, before being let go and drop the final bit ( dressed as Super Mario of course ) after the abseiling, we headed […]
26th June 2014
today We got up early to be welcomed by our tour company, ready to bring us to death road ! we were brought to the top of death road, which is made out of tarmac and last for 21 kilometers, there we had our meeting and snacks before heading down the road with cars overtaking […]
25th June 2014
today we took a bus to La paz , and passed the Bolivian border which took ages, when we arived we went to a dutch restaurant which served really good food !
24th June 2014
today after 11 hours of sleep we were woken up at 7:30 for breakfast and after breakfast we went to our family’s sheep pen , where we attached ropes to the sheep ankles and brought them to a field and attached them there, but one or two of the sheeps kept escaping and we had […]