August 04, 2005
Photos: Salt Flats, Bolivia
The amazing Salar de Uyuni. Most pictures I take are, I admit, nothing special. Such is the case here. However, it would be difficult to get a sense of this place from words alone. At least from my words alone...Read this update
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July 28, 2005
Photos: Paragliding, Bolivia
I think the reason people might get nervous when their friends whip out a load of baby photos is this: the parents will undoubtedly be able to look at about five thousand at a time and chuckle and smile over...Read this update
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July 27, 2005
Villazon: Off the Rails
At 10 p.m. on the evening of July 26th, a few hours after finishing the tour of the salt flats, Brian and I boarded a train to Villazon, the border town on the Bolivian side of the border with Argentina....Read this update
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July 26, 2005
Uyuni: The Spice of Life
By the evening of July 23rd, Olly, Brian and I were all qualified pilots, trained in the art of paragliding. I think that is the single most satisfying sentence I have ever written. Unfortunately both Brian and Olly were better...Read this update
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July 24, 2005
Photos: Mines of Potosi
The mines. Some of these will be kind of dark and hard to see, since I didn't always use flash, it just killed the feeling of the place. Of course, you could argue that killing the feeling of that place...Read this update
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July 23, 2005
Sucre: Solo Flight
When Brian, Olly and I signed up for a paragliding course at Locot’s in Sucre, Bolivia, we were given some idea of what we could expect by Fariq, one of the owners of Locot’s. Lots of practice, for one thing;...Read this update
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July 20, 2005
Sucre: The Learning Curve
The gang split up the night of July 16th, fleeing Potosi in all directions by any means necessary. Naomi and Ben (inappropriately nicknamed Fat Stee) grabbed an overnight bus down south to Tupiza (famous for the final shootout in Butch...Read this update
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July 19, 2005
Photos: Sucre
Now you're gonna see some dinosaur tracks!! I can imagine that these are not going to be so exciting in pictures and after I've built them up so much, but life is filled with disappointment. Better get used to it....Read this update
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July 18, 2005
Photos: The Pampas
The Pampas, you might remember, are the wetlands of Bolivia, near the jungle. Lots happened there, and there were a crapload of pictures that I would love to include, but won't - I'm not sure they would be super interesting,...Read this update
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July 16, 2005
Potosi: The Mine
The first topic of conversation that comes up when meeting other travelers is where you’ve been, where you’re going, and what places the other person absolutely can’t miss. I had always thought that phrases like “hot women” and “cheap drugs”...Read this update
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July 14, 2005
Sucre: Leaving a Mark
We left La Paz at 5 p.m. on July 13th for Sucre, taking an overnight bus for what would turn out to be about a fourteen hour journey. The ride was comfortable enough, it was a decent bus; the only...Read this update
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July 13, 2005
Photos: World's Most Dangerous Road
These photos are of the day we cycled the world's most dangerous road, in Bolivia, from near La Paz down to some other place. It was an absolutely fantastic day, one of the more memorable ones on the trip so...Read this update
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Photos: La Paz
These photos cover all the stuff we did in La Paz over the course of a few days, most of which I am sure you have forgotten about. That's why this website exists- to remind you that Conor is still...Read this update
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July 12, 2005
La Paz: The Boot of Justice
We were meant to leave Rurrenabaque a few hours after returning from the Pampas, but unsurprisingly the tour operator screwed up our flights so we were stuck in town for a night. It wasn’t the worst thing in the world,...Read this update
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July 10, 2005
The Pampas: Waterworld
I was woken up at 8 a.m. on the morning of July 8, unsure where I was. It took me a moment to remember that I was in some room in the back of a tour office in the small...Read this update
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July 08, 2005
Photos: Lake Titicaca
More on Bolivia now - these were from that bike ride we took around Lake Titicaca, which was up at like five million meters, so for the most part we were huffin' and puffin'. But most of the photos are...Read this update
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Photos: Copacabana
Ok, here we are in Bolivia! And I took pictures, but I don't think they're that interesting. But they are of Bolivia, and places called Copacabana and Isla del Sol and Lake Titicaca, and I figure that pretty much automatically...Read this update
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July 07, 2005
Rurrenabaque: Bump in the Night
After thousands upon thousands of miles spent on buses on this trip, I don’t think I’m overly picky, nor am I likely to kick up a huge fuss over minor inconveniences like no seats (Vietnam) or old women sitting on...Read this update
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July 06, 2005
Coroico: The World's Most Dangerous Road
It was quarter after seven in the morning on July 6th and Olly, Naomi and I were driving along in a van, ascending our way up and out of the massive bowl that held the sprawling city of La Paz....Read this update
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July 05, 2005
La Paz: The King of Leaves
With the possible exception of the Witch’s Market, I think it is safe to say that we liked La Paz immediately – it was a city where there was always a great view of the mountains, people were friendly enough...Read this update
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July 02, 2005
La Paz: The Witches
I don’t tend to keep track of days of the week while traveling – in fact, nine times out of ten I will have absolutely no clue what day it is, honest to god. It simply holds no significance when...Read this update
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July 01, 2005
Copacabana: At the Copa
Bolivia is filled with places that sound exotic and invite enthusiasm. Our first stop after we walked across the border from Peru (June 30th) was a mere 8 km away and was called, god bless it, Copacabana. We had the...Read this update
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