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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 city […]

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 architecture remains. […]

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 at […]