We have just returned from 4 days on the south western circuit in Bolivia and this country is beautiful! I may however be slightly biased as I am a drylands geek, but the scenary is amazing, if only I could find a way to swing a PhD on Bolivia.......
The link included on this post is for the tour company that we went with, as Alfredo and Maleny who were our driver/guide and cook team were brilliant and should be recommended to anyone coming to Bolivia! It meant that as well as amazing scenery we had great information, food and company and along with Felcity, Laura and Jonathan (our trip companions) they made the trip what it was.
I have spent the last hour downloading photos from our camera onto a usb stick, as some numpty (ummmm I wonder who) tried to set the camera up for a group shot on a rear view mirror of the jeep and it fell off onto the floor. The result of which is that we now seem to be getting read/write errors on the memory cards. OOPS!!! There were a few cross faces being pulled at me after that stroke of insane genius.....
So, as I am going through checking that we have the hundreds upon hundreds of photos that we took, yes that sandals and slide party is going to be an epic, this blog post is going to be quite short. I have attached more photos for your amusement/perusal instead.....I repeat....this is an extremely small percentage of the photos we have of Bolivia!!! I have included some of Malc this time as I am ashamed to say I didnt in the last post, sorry all you Malc watchers, I am reformed.
We are off down a working silver mine in Potesi tomorrow, which is slightly dangerous, but should be eye opening. Im sure it will be an experience that I will never forget, but Ill let you know in the next post. After that its the night bus to La Paz and then onto Cuzco to aclimatise for the Inca Trail. We ascended to 5000 metres above sea level in the last two days (Potesi isnt quite that high but is the highest city in the world) and Malc suffered with the altitude a bit, due mainly to the speed at which we ascended, so I think we will be aiming to get to Cuzco three days before we set off.
Does anyone know if you can buy Dulce de Leche in the UK??? Its basically the toffee bit from the Banoffee pie in a jar, YUM, I am totally addicted and was extremely excited when we were given it with cake for breakfast one morning. Cake and toffee for breakfast!!!! whooo hoooo!!!
Toad and Squirrel do promise to be back soon, but are currently hanging out with their new Bolivian friends, Mr Llama and Julio the Llama herder.............
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| Malc, Felicity and I on the salt flat...... |
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| Squirrel and Toad made friends!!!! |
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| Only 8 inches..... |
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| The photo that broke the camera......Jonathan, Laura, Felicity, Malc and Alfredo |
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| Malc and that famous Bolivian rock |
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| Malc and a beautiful lake/volcano that I cant remember the name of already!!! |
Dude, Mr Llama looks mean, I'd watch your back. Are you sure he didn't push the camera?!
ReplyDeleteIt looks like the most awesome trip, hope Malc is doing OK with the altitude now and that the silver mine was fun (personally I think it sound horrific but I guess it does at least get you guys a bit lower down....did it work out so that you were at a higher altitude in the mine than you would be in London - that would be kinda cool!.
On a selfish note I miss you guys and am traumatized that I'll have changed jobs when you get back - shall have to find a way to come home through London Bridge!
Mimixxx