Podcast: Bolivia
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] [Download MP3 | Add to iTunes | Subscribe to Podcasts] In this Podcast from Bolivia I head from Isla del Sol on Lake Titicaca (birthplace of the Incas) to La Paz, the capital (and highest capital city in the world), where I go on a mountain biking trip [...]
Video: Salar de Uyuni tour, Bolivia
This video is a ten minute edit of some of the most beautiful scenery I have ever seen – starting with the Salar de Uyuni (the world’s largest and highest salt flats) in Southern Bolivia. Salar de Uyuni is roughly 25 times the size of the Bonneville Salt Flats in the United States. All the [...]
Death-road by bus from La Paz to Rurrenabaque
Taking the bus from La Paz to Rurrenabaque is NOT for the faint-hearted. The majority of travellers who take the bus there – decides to fly back. The picture above might explain to you why that is. The journey takes about 18 hours and the first 4-5 hours are done on a very small dirt [...]
Photos of the Salar de Uyuni tour in Bolivia
I’ve decided to give the photos for my three day Salar de Uyuni (salt flats) tour in Bolivia their own post. A selection is below, and the rest are available through my Flickr photography account. These Bolivian landscapes were the most breathtaking I have ever seen. You can view a slideshow of these photos here. [...]
Potosi, Bolivia
It is claimed Potosi is the highest city in the world at 4,090 m (13,420 feet). It lies beneath the Cerro de Potosi "” sometimes referred to as the Cerro Rico (“rich mountain”) "” a mountain popularly conceived of as being made entirely of silver ore, which has always dominated the city. The Spanish founded [...]
La Paz tourist attraction: Pachamama fight
While residing in La Paz I came across a very funny and peculiar tourist attraction: Pachamama fighting. Pachamama fighting is literally pachamamas fighting…usually not with each other . Most of the time one woman fight (hitting, boxing, kicking, biting) with one man, but sometimes they team up – two women against two men. Most of [...]
The Death Road, Bolivia
According to the Inter-American Development Bank, the Death Road in Bolivia is statistically the most dangerous road in the world. It has of course been turned into a tourist attraction, with twelve separate ‘adventure sports’ companies in La Paz offering Death Road mountain biking trips. I decided to attempt it myself whilst in La Paz. [...]
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