By Laura Closkey
30 May 2004 10:04 pm
La Paz I recommend arriving to La Paz by air. There really is no capital like La Paz. Imagine flying over the Altiplano, eye to eye with the white caps topping Cordillera Real, when all of a sudden the earth falls away. The bottom just drops out. What you get, what is inside the massive […]
By Laura Closkey
29 May 2004 2:57 pm
Arriving Rurrenabaque Chalalan is a community owned rainforest resort. The project was sponsored by a NGO some years back (hmm, forget the NGO’s name at this moment). The mission was to help one native community inside Madidi park develop sustainable income through the creation of an eco resort, while also protecting the park through sound […]
By Laura Closkey
19 May 2004 2:55 pm
The road to Coroico was named the world most dangerous road by the World Bank because it suffers the most deaths per persons traveling in the world. Because of this, the World Bank spent a bunch of money and built a ‘new road’. But, as things go in Bolivia, the new road has a toll […]
By Laura Closkey
15 May 2004 8:18 pm
One of many afternoons at Cafe Mirrador They say that Sucre is the nicest city in Bolivia and a great place to stop and study Spanish. I completely agree, Sucre IS really nice. We all know how picky I am, and if I like it, it MUST be a good place. Sucre isn’t the largest […]
By Laura Closkey
6 May 2004 2:36 pm
Shrine to the devil, lord of the underworld These young guys are 16 and 17 years old. They seemed very proud to have jobs. Potosi is COLD (like the rest of Bolivia) but not such a bad town. At once time Potosi was a large and wealthy city because of the mine, so beautiful colonial […]
By Laura Closkey
5 May 2004 8:47 pm
Hola from Potosi, Bolivia. Home to the biggest and most deadly silver mine in the history of the world. Tommorrow I go down under to inhale the sulfuric acid and meet the miners. Only 12,000,000 dead since some sheep herder discovered silver here about 400 years ago. The last few weeks in the high deserts […]
By Laura Closkey
4 May 2004 2:22 pm
Speeding through Martian landscape Markus, Anja and I set out for the 3 day tour of the Solars with Colque tours. The other travelers in group turned out to be great. Klaus from Germany, one of the happiest people I’ve every known. Ernesto, another Swiss and Christine a young woman from Australia. Day 1 began […]