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Serere Sanctuary

Thursday, May 31st, 2007

So, we have flown in and out of the highest airport in the world – aptly named El Alto – on our way to Rurrenabaque and the Bolivian amazon jungle. The views of La Paz from the plane on takeoff were amazing.  The airport is on the altiplano above La Paz and the drop off to the valley La Paz is settled in is very stark and abrupt, the altiplano just suddenly falls away. [read on]

La Paz & Death Road

Thursday, May 31st, 2007

Early one monring we set out on a down hill bike ride from La Cumbre (at around 4,600m above sea level) to the sleepy town for Chorico at around 1,700m – 3,000m of descent over around 65km of road.  Well there was a little bit of uphill, which at altitude was hard work! [read on]

Potosi and Sucre

Saturday, May 19th, 2007

From Uyuni we headed to Potosi, which is famous for its mines and altitude (c.4,100m above sea) and the highest city of its size in the world (whatever that means!).  The mines orignally contained silver, but the miners of today are ... [Continue reading this entry]

San Pedro de Atacama to Uyuni

Saturday, May 19th, 2007

After a spectacular 10 hour bus journey (which the driver seemed to enjoy taking photos of as we drove along) across high altiplano from Salta we found ourselves back in Chile.

Focussing on the road!San ... [Continue reading this entry]

Parque Nacional de Calilegua and around (updated)

Wednesday, May 9th, 2007

After our car outing its was adventure time...having been frustrated with lack of information (you bascially have to go to the place to find anything out & see if you want to go there) we decided to head to Calilegua ... [Continue reading this entry]

Salta and around

Wednesday, May 9th, 2007

We´ve been in and around Salta and the province de Jujuy for the last 10 days or so.

With a girl we met on the plane in Puerto Williams, who we randomly bumped into in our hostel in Salta, we hired a car very early ... [Continue reading this entry]