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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
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 […]