We arrived in Puno after a pleasant bus journey fairly late but the bus company we went with (Bolivia Hop) took us directly to our AirB&B host’s front door which was very nice of them. Karmen was the a crazy and lovely host. She reminded me of my mum which made me automatically like her. […]
Read MoreNo we’re not back in Brazil. Copacabana is the main village in Bolivia on Lake Titicaca where you get a boat to Isla Del Sol. We arrived here around midday from La Paz and Alex got ripped off when buying the boat ticket – he paid B$25 when the lady after us paid B$20. Must have […]
Read MoreSo first impression of La Paz… We arrived by plane from Uyuni and got a taxi down to this famous hostel called the Wild Rover. We were at the highest point in La Paz and had to make our way down a huge hillside, actually a mountainside. The orange brick buildings were covering the mountainside […]
Read MoreThe border crossing from Salta towards the Atacama Desert was in the middle of a desert surrounded by big rocky mountains and here is where I had my first taste of altitude sickness. We got off the bus at 7am and we were at 4000m above sea level. I got off the bus needing fresh air […]
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Posted by: Alis
Posted on: 23rd November 2016
Destination:
San Pedro De Atacama
Category: Travel Update
After yet another long bus journey from Mendoza and a mini transfer we were in a cloudy Salta. The bus journey was a hard one and all I wanted to do was to sleep. Al had a few harsh looks off the locals because he refused to tip the guy who put our bags in the […]
Read MoreWe got a bus from El Chalten to El Calafate at 6:30am in readiness to get our flight to Bariloche. Our flight wasn’t until 6pm so we had 6 hours to kill, we walked around El Calafate’s main streets admiring the local crafts and souvenirs before finding a nice little cafe with good wifi where […]
Read MoreHeading up Ruta 40 to El Chalten was beautiful, the route we were on was mostly through national park. We thought El Calafate was nice but El Chalten was nicer still. The town was surrounded by snow capped mountains and the sun was out, it was so clear, it was truly pretty. The hostels here […]
Read MoreAlex and I really wanted to head to Ushuaia as our next destination however time was against us and we definitely did not have the right gear with us to go that far south. If I thought Puerto Madryn was cold Rio Gallegos was colder for sure. We were only in Rio Gallegos for a total of […]
Read MoreI was really looking forward to the Peninsula and our first taste of Patagonia. Puerto Madryn was a nice seaside village that reminded me a lot of Wales. This was the first place where we arrived and I was cold (I had to buy a hat which Alex failed to tell me how vile it […]
Read MoreAfter a rather uncomfortable water taxi we were back again (see the bottom of our Colonia Del Sacramento blog to understand). We caught an Uber to our hostel called Casa de Papa. It was a really nice hostel, I imagine that at one point in time the building would have been very nice apartments, it was on the […]
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