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 [...]
On account of the fact we didn't really know how we wanted to tackle Salta we'd only booked two nights in the flat so we were brutally forced to move to a hostel for another two nights when we decided to just stay in the city and pay people to take us places and show [...]
Us: Yeah we're not really big city kinda people, y'know?Also us: Omg we just LOVE Mendoza though! *heart eyes*Yeah so Mendoza has been fantastic. Of course we've been focused on the centre but it's got so many green spaces breaking up the busy city roads, and they're nice green spaces too with water features and [...]
It is 1500 kilometres, give or take, from Esquel to Mendoza so you can imagine that we had exactly zero desire to rush that. As much as I love driving, any more than six hours behind the wheel can bugger right off. We intended to stick to ruta nacional 40 the whole way back up [...]
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