Archive for January, 2007

Salar De Uyuni & SW Bolivia
Monday, January 29th, 2007

Few places in the world are as strange as the Salt Flats and desert mountains south east of Bolivia. Right on the frontier of Chile, this unique region boasts enormous white plains of salt, multicolored lakes with flocks of pink flamingos, as well as geysers, fumeroles and volcanos. Have a peak at the images from [...]

Welcome to the Jungle
Monday, January 22nd, 2007

I had to put that title. Couldn`t get by without a Guns & Roses reference. Well, we decided we had enough of mountain life and thought a great place to relax and kick back would be the Amazon. Paul and I checked into transportation and found there are 2 ways to get to the Amazon [...]

Biking the Deadliest Road on Earth
Friday, January 12th, 2007

Let me clarify something. The deadliest road on earth is primarily deadly for large buses with out of control drivers, not tourist on mountain bikes. The road has also just recently been replaced by a newer road, with cement and signposts and such things of safety, so there is now far less car traffic. With [...]

Swimming at 12000 ft
Monday, January 1st, 2007

Paul and I took an hour and a half boat ride from the resort town of Copacabana to the famous island, Isla Del Sol. This island is the mythical birthplace of the first Inca, Manko Kapak, and also the birth of the sun itself. There are numerous Inca ruins throughout the island and a path [...]

Islas Flotas
Monday, January 1st, 2007

Welcome to the floating islands of Lago Titicaca. The islands were made and have been inhabited by the Uro tribe for nearly one thousand years. They originally created and moved to the islands to distance themselves from the warring tribes of the area, the Aymara, Collas, and finally the Incas. Isla Flota tour All Islas [...]