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Archives for July 2017

Stars spinning around the southern celestial pole over Isla del Sol.

18 July, 2017 By Amanda

Lake Titicaca: The Spiritual Centre of the Andes

Heading north from our adventures in La Paz we came to Lake Titicaca. This was and still is an important spiritual centre for people from the Andes. It’s where the sun and moon came from in the Andean creation legend, and where the spirits of the dead go. Tiwanaku Tiwanaku has some of the earliest […]

This guy in the audience was really getting into it, having a go at the wrestlers when they came past.

7 July, 2017 By Amanda

La Paz: Hard to Explain and Very Crazy

After our adventuring in Torotoro we were finally off to the pseudo-capital of Bolivia; La Paz. La Paz La Paz is different from Potosi and Sucre because it doesn’t have a lot of old, colonial buildings. It’s a lot more modern and very chaotic. Plenty of cars trying to run you over each time you […]

They really like their dinosaurs in Torotoro. Even the local sports stadium is dinosaur themed.

7 July, 2017 By Amanda

Adventures in Torotoro

Torotoro is a bit of an out-of-the-way destination. We hadn’t originally planned on going there, but since we couldn’t do the salt flats tour we decided to check it out. To get there you need to take an overnight bus to Cochabamba. (Pretty much everyone in Bolivia reckons this place is a hole). Then get […]

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Hi, we're Amanda and Pedr and we think that you don't need to be an athlete or look like a fitness model to be able to enjoy adventurous activities. We're just two regular people who don't fit the young / beautiful / athletic traveller mould, but we're still doing all sorts of adventurous things. Read More

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