Bolivia – A Brief Update

Apologies for the lack of updates. Bolivia is not s this post was mainly about the poor internet facilities in Bolivia. Which was then very well demonstrated. Vast amounts of updates will follow in the coming hours. We have been a long way since we last updated and seen some amazing things. But for the…

Bolivia Part 1 – Uyuni and Potosi

You can always trust the Irish! Free wifi that works in an Irish Pub…though they don’t have any Guinness! So here is our latest adventures… After leaving the salt flats tour we booked into our cheapest hotel so far at £6 for the night whilst we sorted out our bus to Potosi. (our only photograph…

A Quick Update from Bolivia

The internet here in Bolivia is a little iffy. Not surprising really as Bolivia is very different from Chile and Argentina. That said we are loving it here. As soon as we can get some decent wifi we will provide a full update. But for now we are in Santa Cruz on the edge of…

Technical Problems

Some of our photographs are not currently appearing. We will fix this soon. Sorry.

Chile to Bolivia by 4wd

After disembarking the Pachamama Bus in San Pedro de Atacama we hung around there for 2 nights to get used to the altitude. San Pedro sits at around 2,400 meters above seal level, which is around the point at which altitude sickness kicks in. The lack of oxygen was noticeable even here. (some church in…

Pachamama Bus Tour – Chile

Update at April 2013 We had an absolutely amazing time on the Pachamama Bus as our blog entry confirms. As far as I can tell things are much the same as they were in 2011. ——-oOo—— After a few days relaxing in sunny Santiago, which gave me a chance to recover from the bed bug…

Mendoza

It would be all too easy for us to continue to move from place to place. The whole process of checking into and then out of hostels and buying bus tickets becomes almost instinctive. But as was the case in Thailand we started to feel that we needed to stay still for a week and…