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A half-hour by plane from La Paz, is the city of “Cochabamba” beautiful city situated in a valley, more or less to 2,500 meters above sea level, with a really enviable climate so this city is called “The city of eternal spring”, as their average annual temperature is between 16 and 25 degrees centigrade. I travel during the weekend in the company of my wife, as take a few days taking advantage of the generous climate.The time we take strolling different parks in this city and to make …

You stay at high altitudes but the landscape is so amazing. Colourful, rough, endless and a must see!

So, the original plan was to visit the Sun Island which is located nearby Copacabana; but unfortunately we had a quick change in plans when Arnaud got seriously sick because of food poisoning from the night before and the altitude in Bolivia . . . What fun!! So I ended up having to play Doctor Galván and hence unable to visit "La Isla del Sol"!! Bummer!! Still, no regrets because this town was a bit of a dissapointment. It was just another typical touristy town, over-priced, and on top of …

Before arriving in Copacabana, ensure that you have some money, of any denomination. There is no cash machine here. Andy and I had only an emergency 20 dollars, having run down our Peruvian Soles so as not to suffer at the hands of the money changers.  I do have a credit card but there are only two places in town to get a cash advance from it. Yesterday, Sunday, my quest for moolah was foiled by the very brief (less than two hou…

Unfortunately the journey to Bolivia didn´t start off so smoothly as I arrived at the bus terminal in the morning and all the buses to Bolivia don´t leave until about 8pm at night. After figuring out that I could get on the buses to Bolivia in Mariscal Estigarribia I decided to take a bus there at 2:30pm, the earliest one, and then I would have a break after that 8 hour ride and also I would get to see some of the countryside by leaving during the day. Of course the bus had aging tinted win…

Travel photos from Bolivia and Chile

Well I woke up at 3:30 am to catch my 6:45 flight in Santiago this morning.  I got yelled at by the security guard in our hotel and I thought he was going to call the police because as he was yelling at me he had his hand on the phone the whole time.  Apparently, he was in the bathroom when I came down and thought I snuck in the front door.  He kept yelling at me and asking me how I got in since the door was locked.  Nothing is better than trying to cool down an angry secu…

La Paz has the honor of being the highest capital in the world (thought apparently Bolivia has 2 capitals, cheating) and we could definately feel it slugging up the hill the our hostel with lungs about to implode.  Comming into La Paz it seemed to also holds that honor for being the only city built entirely by do-it-yourselfers, without input from acutal builders, architecs or engineers.  The outskirts of the city are precariously perched atop crumbling clif…

So after about 5 weeks in Peru it was time to leave and cross the border into Bolivia.  Peru was great to see, the highlights getting better and better the further south I travelled, but Bolivia awaited... The border crossing was fairly simple, with less quizical looks when confronted with my awful and unrepresentative passport photo than had been the case when entering Peru!  It was then onto Copacabana, a small, laid-back touristy town which was asked in sun and fronted onto th…

After a long bus ride I was exhausted and easily found a hostal to park in for a day. The lady running the hostal was absolutely beautiful, with a smile that lit up the entire building. She offered a room in the main area, but I wanted something on the upper level so that I could have a view of Lake Titicaca and the city. First of all, that room was SMALL! I could easily reach across the room and touch both walls at the same time. It was perfect. The pinkest, pepto-bismal pink I have ever s…

Awesome trip! One of my best trip until now: amazing wonders and landscapes, new friends, etc. With Asan. (Texts and videos will come soon!)

This is the blog about my travels around Peru, Bolivia, Argentina and Chile!

Hola! Been a bit busy since I got back from the jungle. I had another couple of days in Cusco, where I saw some of the sights that I didn't get to before the Inca Trail and the Jungle. I went to Sacsayhuaman and a few other Inca sites on an organised tour, the guide wasn't very inspiring and I think I should have seen them before Machu Picchu. I aslo went to the Sunday market at Pisac and spent the afternoon in the Sacred Valley, which is beautiful. It felt a bit strange to be finally leaving…

Copacabana - La Paz The next day we returned taking a taxi to the city of La Paz,  we return with our friend of Brazil, who was very interesting for the first time, to cross the lake Titicaca in the “Strait of Tiquina”, since it has to go on a barge. We arrived at "La Paz" by the way of the city of “El Alto" and then to introduce into the city center down the different areas until arrive to the district of Miraflores, where is my apartment. During the afternoon we went to know La P…

BUS JOURNEY So leaving Hands-On I knew this was gonna be a mission to get to Copacabana to meet back up with Bend. I first went to Cuzco and from there Im getting a bus to Copacabana. The bus to Cuzco took 13 hours but I got the decent seats and just slept the whole way. Arrived at 8am and the next direct bus to Copacabana was at 10pm...great. I left my South America book with Bend so had no idea how to figure what to do. Had some breakfast and one of my new things I decided at Hands-On w…