So our time in South America has come to an end (sniff sniff!) and before I move on to write about the next continent, I thought I’d do a short round-up of our highlights. We always get asked ‘What’s been your favourite place so far?’, and we never manage to give a straight answer. Each … Continue reading
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Lake Titicaca Part 2: Puno and the Floating Uros Islands
We’ve met lots of people since visiting Puno and the floating islands who have asked us whether they are worth visiting. I’ve always answered yes, but probably only for a day or two. We traveled from Copacabana to Puno, crossing the border for our first Peruvian stop. Puno itself isn’t the nicest town. It’s not … Continue reading
Lake Titicaca Part 1: Copacabana and Isla del Sol
After Coroico we returned to La Paz for a night and then caught a bus the following day to a town on the Bolivian border called Copacabana. It’s situated right on the edge of Lake Titicaca, the world’s highest lake. Our first views of the lake were from the bus, a huge expanse of deep … Continue reading
Coroico: Getting Lost in the Yungas
We left La Paz for a couple of days to visit the small town of Coroico, three hours away in the Yungas region of Bolivia. Many people know Coroico as the town you arrive at after cycling along the ‘World’s Most Dangerous Road’, but unfortunately most tours require you to turn back around again and … Continue reading
The Dizzying Heights of La Paz
After reluctantly leaving lovely Sucre, we caught a bumpy overnight bus to the colossal city of La Paz. I don’t think there’s been a place on our journey so far that I haven’t looked forward to visiting for some reason or another, but after reading a bit about La Paz, I didn’t have the highest … Continue reading
Sucre: The Dazzling White City
From PotosÃ, we embarked on a short and very picturesque three hour journey to Sucre, Bolivia’s constitutional capital. I specify it as the constitutional capital, because in nearly every way the capital of Bolivia is La Paz, and many state that Bolivia has two capitals. The people of Sucre are passionate and proud of the … Continue reading
PotosÃ: The El Dorado of Times Gone By
After one night in the small town of Uyuni, our Bolivian journey continued on to PotosÃ. Potosà was once the largest and richest city of the Americas, rich from the vast quantities of silver of the nearby Cerro Rico mountain. However now the silver has pretty much dried up, it is now a mining city … Continue reading
Salar de Uyuni: A Tour in a 4X4
I had mentioned in previous posts that we weren’t fans of organised tourist tours, but after conducting a bit of research, it seemed like the only way to see the spectacular and very remote Salar de Uyuni, and one of the easiest ways to cross the border between San Pedro de Atacama in Northern Chile, … Continue reading