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 […]
Bolivia
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 […]
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 […]
Getting High in Bolivia
After so much time in Argentina we finally made it up north and into Bolivia. Crossing the border was pretty easy, no scams or dodgy officials. But getting on to the train to take us away was a chaotic scene with hundreds of Bolivian women (carrying their bodyweight in fruit & veg on their backs) […]
