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9th July 2014
Today we woke up super early (4am to take our 6am flight) to buenos aires, but unfortunately it was cancelled so we had to wait until the next flight at 10 am which was 30 min late, but at least we got a free breakfast. once we arrived in buenos aires, we took a private […]
8th July 2014
Today we were met by taxis to take us to a ranch about an hour outside of the city, where we got breakfast and started our horserinding tour around the village and fields for 3 hours , starting off by walking and then learning how to trott, after that just before going back, we got […]
7th July 2014
Today we took a bus n the morning to argentina , which took us 12 hours including a 3 hour stopover to pass through the argentinina border, which was torture as it was super slow, and super boring . we finally arrived in salta at 10pm argentinian time and had just enough time to go […]
6th July 2014
Today we got up and improvised a breakfast which we had to cook ourselves and then went on to our morning expedition , Biking to a laggon so salty its almost the dead sea , on the 20 km way to the lake , we were followed by 3 dogs which just ran along with […]
5th July 2014
Today was the last day of the salt flats expedition and we stopped in many lakes which are supoosed to be different colors ( red and green ) but were so iced up , or hidden by the effects of the wind that we didnt see anything ( all this because we are in winter […]
4th July 2014
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 […]
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