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Tupiza Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Tupiza, Bolivia
Saddlin' up in Tupiza
The area surrounding Tupiza, in southern Bolivia, could come straight out of the American Southwest -- brightly colored rocky hillsides, jagged formations, and strange looking badlands in all directions. It's also where Butch Cassidy and the ...
Where the Air is Rare
... . We were used to being offered a choice of fully reclining chairs, semi reclining chairs, part reclining chairs or standard. In Bolivia we were offered standing or a wheel arch. We opted for the wheel arch and were hastily shepherded onto the bus by ...
Butch Cassidy eat your heart out!
... , a splash-out I think was justified!!). Tour 2, The Salar del Uyuni tour is the most famous and popular in Bolivia. 4 days in a jeep travelling around the most remote and beautiful scenery imaginable (actually it was not imaginable as there is ...
The Wild Wild West
... koebe vores busbillet til Tarija naeste morgen, endte vi med at gaa derfra med en billet til Potosí - vi aendrede lige vores planer. Tupiza var en sloev og hyggelig by - lige noget for os. I Tupiza kom den soede laege med konstateringen om at Eli ikke ...
What a difference a boarder makes!!
... !! All the locals must think that i`m local coz they just keep staring at me!! The journey was incredible...loving Bolivia already.... Tapiza was an interesting and small town...i`m glad i`m was traveling with others...The altitiude was around 3600 ...
The One Where it finally rained
... dafuer 12 Stunden auf unseren Bus warten muessen. Daher folgten wir dem Rat zweier Neuseelaenderinnen und fuhren nach Tupiza, eine kleine aber sehr touristische Stadt. Die dreistuendige Fahrt war besonders angenehm, da wir zu dritt nur ...
Ride em cowboy!
... up. It would have been very funny to watch had I not been holding on to its´back for dear life! The mountains surrounding Tupiza are all different colours due to the variety of minerals found inside of them. We rode for four hours, winding our way ...
Tupiza, the Wild West of Bolivia
We got on our first Bolivian night bus from Uyni to Tupiza. Bolivia is so cheap, our 8 hour bus only cost us £4.50! You pay for what you get, though. The bus was overcrowded with people standing in the isles, it had very little (if any) suspension, ...
Journée rien à Tupiza
Le mot d'ordre du jour, ne rien faire et profiter de l'hotel. Après avoir rentabilisé à fond le petit dej à volonté, nous retournons nous coucher pour regarder la télé. Puis nous sortons un peu ville, faisons le tour des marchés locaux très ...
Welcome to the wild wild west
... get us here. We found a hotel that was a whopping $4.50 each for a private room! Oh how I love the prices in Bolivia!!!! We decided we would spend the next day chilling out- getting our washing down, getting some work related internet stuff done, research ...
Butch Cassidy country: the wild west
... .) Though the true story is that Butch was killed here in tupiza. stick with the movie i guess. The experience of crossing into Bolivia was rather surreal: we got off our bus at high altitude, very very cold, in the dark at bout 6.30am. We kinda ...
The Butch Cassidy - Sundance Kid ride in Tupiza
The very next day as early as we could we jumped on a bus to Tupiza, a town right in the south of Bolivia. The 10 hour, 100 mile bus ride was very scenic, yet it was probably the most uncomfortable ride I'd ever take. The journey took us thought mainly ...
A Cowboy Xmas
... local beer and some classic tunes playing in the background. We had a very active Xmas day as we opted for the Tupiza "Triathlon" which involved exploring the cowboy outback by jeep, horse and downhill mountain biking. Felise Navidad to everyone, hope ...
Un peu de Bolivie
... sont pas des plus amusantes car le sac de Charly a été volé. Cet accident nous vaut de rester quelques jours a Tupiza, ville entourée d`un cirque de montagnes rouges, pour rechercher ce sac volé …Cette aventure nous coupe un peu dans ...
Gaucho Fever.
... the Canadian Couple. Today, Jess, I and the Canadians are going on a 5 hour horseback ride! In fact I have to go, cause we leave in 45 minutes. I´ll just say that so far Bolivia is awesome. Incredibly inexpensive, friendly, interesting and ...
4 days in a 4x4
The Salt plains tour was next on the agenda. The tour we took consisted of 4 days pretty much consisting of 10hours in a 4x4 jumping out everynow and again for photos of the spectacular scenery. Only the last day did we reach the salt plains which were ...
Tupiza Tours
Today we started on our 4 day jeep tour and headed south towards the Chilean border. We met some new travelling companions, a french canadian couple,Matt and Vicky, a brit,Simon and Mike from before. We travelled through tiny adobe ...
Dunc Cassidy and the Sundance Lady
... But I'm sure they felt right at home here, at least before they got shot, as the area is the wild west Bolivia style with tall cacti and steep narrow gorges surrounded by flat, scrub covered plains. It seemed somehow appropriate therefore that we ...
Une journée d'attente en plus
Un appel pendant la nuit nous prévient que 2 personnes ne pourront pas arriver et notre départ s'en trouve annulé. Mais nous partirons demain et la nuit est payée !! On rencontre Gaele et Stephane deux toulousains avec qui nous partirons. Lui est ...
The Wild West
We arrived into Tupiza by train. Train travel in Bolivia is really cheap and much more comfortable than the buses. We checked into La Torres Hotel, which was as good as the Hilton (not that we´ve ever stayed in the Hilton) and cost 7 euros a night. We ...
Bienvenidos a Bolivia!
... our disappointment they didn´t have any Easter parades. When I recovered however it was time for a new chapter in our travels - Bolivia. After a few weeks in Argentina, which until the economy crashed in 2001 was relatively well off (by SA standards) ...
Bolivia
... a bit and the ledge was all dusty but it was grand - we have learned quickly that we had to lower our expectations in Bolivia compared to Argentina. Ror had gotten biscuits before we got on so we were munching on them for our breakfast - it was ...
Please pass the salt
... as though it had ferried troops in an uprising through heavy shelling and was rammed full of people (a common occurrence in Bolivia it would turn out). Occupational safety and health would have a field day auditing these buses, with many sitting and ...
Of Gauchos and Gringos.
... any of us actualy cared about, was it as cheap as the legends foretold!? Our next stop was the town of Tupiza, in southern Bolivia, part of the cowboy/gaucho region that extends to northern argentina, and the part of south america where butch cassidy and ...
tupiza - butch cassidy and sundance kid territory
... an extremely religious pair of trabs (that are also smelly). we went on a 5 hour horse trek to the conutry side surrounding tupiza...which i have to say is something else. its full of millions of canyons and cacti and dry river beds with numerous small ...
Where o where did my big bag go?!
... . The bus ride was sooo bumpy. The 'main roads’ really aren’t main roads, like dirt roads back home. Arrival in Tupiza was a relief…however disaster was soon to follow. We stepped off the bus greeted by Han and Si’s smiling faces. ...
Bolivia -Tupiza to Uyuni via salt flats
... costumes and women carrying babies, food and everything with not a sweat breaking out in the hot sun. We had are first Bolivia bus experience which is packed to the max, on a gravel road, no air con totally roasting, and smelly ...
...Been through the desert on a horse with no name
... the bus that had a taped up front window! But the ride was ok and was only 6 hours...including two stops for breakdowns! Tupiza is a tiny place with about 20,000 people. Only the main roads are paved. We are staying in Hostel Mitreu, quite a nice ...