Bolivia

Country N°28 - June 2014

Day 44 – Salt Flats

Today we got up early for breakfast and continued our expedition to our next stop , Fish Island an island full of cacti , which looks like a fish, after the island we left the salt flats to visit the galaxy caves a weird set of caves formed by bubbles in the lava of a […]

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Day 43 – Salt Flats

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 […]

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Day 42 – Uyuni

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 […]

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Day 41 – Potosi

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 […]

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Day 40 – Potosi

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

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Day 39 – Sucre

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 […]

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Day 38 – Sucre

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 […]

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Day 37 – La Paz

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 […]

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Day 36 – La Paz

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 […]

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Day 35 – La Paz

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 !

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