See It Do It Live It

Over the past few months we have realised that we don’t particularly enjoy spending time in big cities (with a few exceptions) and that exploring in the countryside is much more enjoyable. However, we really enjoyed the few days we spent in La Paz. It is an interesting city, full of busy, winding streets. We spent time exploring the markets and souvenir shopping. We also wondered around the Witches Market. A particular highlight here are the abundant llama foetuses. These are built buy superstitious Bolivians who bury them under the…read more

Coroico is the town situated at the bottom of Death Road. In order to delay the inevitable return journey, we decided to stay down there for a few days. I say ‘down’, but Coroico is still at 1600 metres above sea level making it higher that Ben Nevis (1344 m.a.s.l.). Coroico is a nice little Bolivian town in a beautiful valley, and usually has warm weather. It was definitely warm while we were there, but it did rain quite a bit. We stayed at El Cafetal, a French owned lodge…read more

There are varying statistics about the Death Road. What they all agree on is that it is very dangerous. In its heyday, an average of 26 vehicles dropped off the edge every year. In 1995, the Inter-American Development Bank declared this road as the most dangerous in the world. In 2009 the Bolivians finally realised that owning this deadly ‘road’ wasn’t a great claim to fame and built a new, safer route. These days, the Death Road (or North Yungas Road as it is really called) is mainly used by…read more

Originally we had planned to cross back into Chile to visit the Atacama desert, and then go from there to the Bolivian salt flats. After looking into it though, it appeared that travelling from Salta to San Pedro de Atacama is tricky and expensive. It is also not recommended to go to the salt flats from Chile as the huge increase in altitude leaves most people feeling very sick. With this in mind, we decided to travel up to Tupiza which is just across the border in Bolivia, where we…read more