We'd already booked our flights out of Bolivia but we gave ourselves plenty of time to see and do the things we really wanted to before we needed to make our way to Santa Cruz. That meant we had a week to kill so we decided to kill it in Sucre, the White City, because [...]
There isn't a huge amount to do in Potosí but it's definitely worth wrapping your eyeholes around for a couple of nights. Even just one night if you fancied. The main draw here is the tour of the mines, you could stay the night, get on a morning tour, then bugger off in the afternoon [...]
Since I became a postie I'm much better at getting up at hours even the sparrows would raise an eyebrow at. The trick is to actually go to bed at a reasonable hour rather than cruising through on three hours sleep and expecting to function without drooling on your own shoes. The wine helped. It [...]
Shitting hell, it was a lot colder today than it had been. Actually the whole trip had been warmer than the last time I did this tour. Last time I remember wearing all of my clothes to bed and burying myself under layers of blankets to avoid freezing to death. This time I was in [...]
It took a while to get to sleep last night. I'm obviously blaming the altitude because I blame it for fucking everything. I'm not out of breath tying my shoelaces because I'm too fat for my trousers. It's the altitude. Definitely spilt that beer all over myself because of the altitude. You can blame it [...]
It wasn't a terrifyingly early start this morning, we had to be at the tour office at 7.30am which isn't too hideous. I'd even stopped drooling. Unfortunately the first thing they did was tell us that one of the other two people on the tour couldn't make it as she was really ill and because [...]
We're in Bolivia! Woo! The border crossing was relatively straightforward albeit loooong. Two bastard hours we stood in a queue for as one single human being processed everyone crossing into Bolivia that day. Also we've no idea how long we're allowed to stay for as there's nothing on the stamp to tell us and we [...]
Finally, a tour that didn't leave traumatically early. I wasn't brutally forced from my bed at some god awful hour usually reserved for staying up until, not getting up at. The sun had risen, my basic motor functions had kicked in, the drooling had ceased and I was capable of forming vaguely coherent sentences by [...]
We were down there for over an hour before we emerged, a bunch of sweating, gasping messes, congratulating each other for handling the claustrophobia fabulously in the parts where dragging ourselves along on knees and elbows was necessary, wiping the moisture from our brows with the bandannas we'd purchased to wear over our mouths to [...]
Welcome to the jungle, we got fun 'n' games. Dah dah dah dah something something dah dah dah dah jungle, welcome to the jungle… But first you gotta get there. In order to get to Rurrenabaque, the gateway to Bolivia's share of the Amazon Jungle you will need the following items: Regular jungle companion. Transport. [...]
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