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Colchani Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Colchani, Bolivia
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Bolivian Adventure: Don Hans' Cabaña and More
... , and showed it to me. No film in it. We looked at each other: he had spent nearly a week on his vacation in Bolivia, taking loads of pictures, with no film in his camera. Poor Tully. With his implacable British sense of humour, he proceeded to tell a ...
Bolivian Adventure: The Trek Continues
... we looked around, and were stunned into silence by the beauty surrounding us, I was reminded of why I had come to trek in Bolivia, and of course, all the events of the last couple of days, and little frustrations of the trip vanished. With the hail ...
Bolivian Adventure: Trekking in the Quimsa Cruz
The first night camping was a bit cold - not that cold, but I wasn't wearing enough layers. That's easy to address. Nonetheless, the sniffles and stuffy nose I had started to feel the day before just got worse during the night, leaving me no doubt that I ...
Bolivian Adventure: The Epic
WARNING: there is much controversy related in the following account. To my fellow trekkers, if I have mis-represented ANY FACTS, please send me an email, so that I can make amends... ------------------------------------------------------------ ...
Salar de Uyuni Tour Day 4
... was a welcome site. The hot shower was the best I have ever had!!!! We all went out for dinner looking clean and feeling so much better! We even dared to have our first beer in Bolivia, which went down very well, but made us really ...
Crossing the altiplanic desert
... todo construído com sal: o chão, as paredes e até mesas, cadeiras e a cama! Espera-nos um dia cheio de sal amanhã... Bolivia is a big country with around 10 million people (9pax/km2). Some people say it's an altiplanic country, but in fact, 70% of ...
Bolivian Adventure: the wheels on the bus go..
... killing all passengers on board...". That's CNN... The papers would have said something like, "Tourist bus takes fatal plunge in Bolivia", before describing some horrendous scene where no one could possibly come out alive. But - in our case, no ...
The big climb......the girls handled it well
... had taken their toll on us.......tomorrow we will arrive to the location of our first major destination: La Paz, Bolivia. Portugues ----- "A subida grande ...... as meninas seguraram bem" Patacamaya a La Paz é dedicado à minha mãe, Cathy Van ...
And yet another roadblock in Bolivia.....
... Uyuni arriving at 10:20pm where i´d go to my pre-booked hotel. It all seemed so perfect. What I forgot was I was in Bolivia and didn´t allow time for those little things that could go wrong...... like roadblocks!!! The day didn't start well to begin ...
Rocks and desert
... in Uyuni to get some wine - we needed the bottels as props for the photo shoots tomorrow, then continued to our accomodation in Colchani which is located at the rim of the Salar de Uyuni. We had to change accomodation and got upgraded to a very big ...
Hotel California Bolivia
... fuming. Two nights before in Sorata an American tour guide had joked about our inability to get diesel as foreigners, suggesting that Bolivia was like the Hotel California...you can check out any time you like but you can never leave. This was getting ...
From La Paz to the Salt Lakes and Back
... than Lake Titicaca. 27/03 La Paz- Colchani Colchani Breakfast and departure to Uyuni. (9 hours driving). Arrive to Colchani and accommodation in Salt Hotel. Our driver for the first part of the trip was Simon Llanos. ...
Day 13 - Chapare Amazon basin
We set out for Chapare, in the Amazon basin, early in the morning. We were going to stay there and then drive down to Santa Cruz where we would eventually fly home from. Our drive to Chapare itself was interesting in the fact that the road is not in ...
Climbing out of La Paz
Stage 44– La Paz – Lahuachaca Bushcamp Hostal place Dist 138 Km's Time in Saddle 5:14 It’s probably safe to say that I wasn’t quite as rested and looking forward to the next 7 day section on the bike as I’d liked to be. Our ...
Salzfabrik/Salt Flats/ Isla de Pescadores
... verpackt wird. Teilweise wir auch noch Jod beigefügt, damit es auch für den verzehr gut geeignet ist. Von Colchani sind wir dann zuerst zu einem Salzabbaugebiet gefahren um die berühmten Salzpyramiden zu besichtigen. Anschliessend ging es weiter in ...
Day 14 - Adventures in Chapare
... through the entire park ride by ride. After that we headed for Santa Cruz. This took quite a while as this area is Bolivia's largest producer of Coca, the plant used in the production of cocaine. You would be driving along and all of a sudden a ...
A very annoying Bolivian day
... for a short day to El Alto. We had debated if we should go into La Paz or not, which is the departmental capital of Bolivia. The actual capital is Sucre, but all the government buildings are in La Paz, and consequently that is the bigger city, with more ...
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