Hoi! Wat is er erger? Kou lijden maar toch een held zijn of geen kou lijden en bijgevolg de stempel pantoffelheld (wat Leen betreft zeer letterlijk te nemen) moeten dragen? Dagen hadden we er naar uitgekeken om de straffe verhalen te kunnen evenaren van slapen bij - 20 en noodgedwongen foto's maken vanuit de auto omdat de kou niet te harden was....

Still feeling the shockwaves of some altitude sickness that hit in Uyuni, we could prolong the 7hr bus journey to Potosi no longer - apart from being bitterly cold, Uyuni didn´t offer much outside of the abundance of tour operators selling packages to the salt flats we´d just come from. So with coca leaves a plenty to abate the nausea, we boarde...

La cuidad más alta del mundo (más de 4.000m.) y las minas más grandes y conocidas, eso es Potosí. Llegué sola, pero con ánimo de hacer cosas y vivir experiencias nuevas. Y la cuidad no me defraudó. Nada más llegar arreglé un tour para las minas de Cerro Rico (o como se conoce popularmente, la montaña que come hombres), a ver si de verdad eso val...

We booked for a tour in the mines, first we went to dressed up to go in the mines helmet, boots and clothes to keep clean in the dust. Then we went to the market to buy some gifts for the miners as Coca leaves, dynamites, cigarettes, alcohol etc... In the shop where everybody can buy dynamite, we had a course of terrorism with our guide who expl...

"oh my God Denise are you okay?...you,re face has no colour and your lips are PURPLE" Karla exclaims at the entrance to the Zinc mines. At this point I realised something was seriously wrong....it was as if my head was being squashed in a vice, I felt nauseous, breathing seemed pretty ineffectual..I thought I was going to faint. Our tour guide s...

I have seen a lot of poverty in my life and my travels but up to this date, I have always thought to understand what it meant. I have walked the Indian streets of Mumbai and New Delhi, saw people there dead on the side of the road and kids crawling on the floor to get my attention for money. I have been to the poorest areas of Mexico, Guatemala,...

I have seen a lot of poverty in my life and my travels and up to this date, I have always thought to understand what it meant. I have walked the Indian streets of Mumbai and New Delhi, saw people dead on the side of the road and kids crawling on the floor to get my attention for money. I have been to the poorest areas of Mexico, Guatemala, Hondu...

After a couple of beers and a pizza in Uyuni we headed to Potosi on an evening bus with Paul and Siobahn, two people we had met on the Salt Flats tour. Hoping for a bit of sleep but it wasnt to be. Even though the bus left at 7pm and arrived at 3am they played a misture of Bolivian and 80´s World music at full blast for the whole trip. It was mo...

After partying my brain out in Sucre it was time for some more cultural experience back in Potosi. We only had a 3 hour drive back to the highest city in the world, thankfully. Not sure how much more of the bus I can stand! But we arrived back to be able to see the mines that made the city both rich and famous. The city was founded in 1545 follo...

Zondag 6 april 2008 Vandaag weer een dag van reizen, van Uyuni naar Potosí. In een 'oud kreng' hebben we de zandwegen getrotseerd die zich al kronkelend een weg banen naar Potosí, de hoogste stad ter wereld (4060m). Hier aangekomen heb ik samen met 3 Oostenrijkers een taxi genomen. Ik ben precies al gewend aan de hoogte, geen hoofdpijn, niets! S...