Sunday 18th October 2015 In the morning we did some last minute shopping, walking up and down the streets around the agency. Passed in a street where a market was going on. Woman selling fruits. Woman selling newspapers The street leading to San Francisco´s church that we can see in the background 8.30am – 9am … More Huayna Potosi – Day 1
Saturday 17th October 2015 I arrived in La Paz at the Intahuasi Hostel, dropped my bag and with Lluis we went straight to the street where all the tour agencies where and went to a few of them asking about going to Huayna Potosi the next day. Lluis had talked to a few already the … More La Paz
Friday 16th October 2015 We woke up and had the included brekky upstairs of the hostel. We chatted with 2 girls from Quebec that Patrick had met the day before who were also off to the Salar de Uyuni that day. Then Patrick prepared his bag for his 4-day roadtrip. Here was the map of … More From Uyuni to La Paz
Thursday 15th October 2015 I woke up at 5am in Calama in Hostel Loa, got ready and walked 5 minutes to the bus stop. There were already a few people waiting there to board the bus. Now something very interesting happened there. A couple from Finland in their forties or fifties I would say arrived … More From Calama to Uyuni
Wednesday 14th October 2015 I said good-bye to my parents who were off at 8am to the airport of Calama for a plane at 11am to Santiago and then they would start going down south to Patagonia! We had spent 10 days travelling together in one of the most beautiful landscape of this world that … More San Pedro de Atacama to Calama
Tuesday 13th October 2015 Here is the second cat of the hostel, hanging out on the roof in the morning to warm itself up. We got picked up around 8.30am and shoot off. There was a great atmosphere in the mini-van. There were 6 Brazilians and we were 7 French people, a couple the age … More Salar de Tara
Monday 12th October 2015 We started the day early with a 6am pick-up in this funny big bus truck. Everyone slept most of the way, the sun woke up, here was a bit of the landscape we saw outside of the window. First, we saw Laguna Miscanti. After all the pretty lakes we had seen … More Altiplano Lagunas and Valle de la Luna
Sunday 11th October 2015 We chilled out all day and I published a few blog articles I had prepared during the no-WiFi nights in the desert. I also finally got myself onto Trip Advisor to leave a few reviews about hostels, trips, dives, and so on! In the evening, we boarded a mini-bus full of … More Learning about the night sky with Alain Maury
Saturday 10th October 2015 When we left Hotel del Desierto, Laetitia and David were preparing their tandem bicycle, ready to shoot off too. We took off and here is one of the first thing we ran into. The road ahead of us. We stopped first at the “Pampas del Siloli” where we saw the “arbol … More Road Trip Day 5 – From Ojos de Perdiz to San Pedro de Atacama
Friday 9th October 2015 In the morning, there was a team of 4 guys of the “Paris Dakar” on their computers in the brekky area of the hostel who were preparing the itinerary of the Paris Dakar of December 2015. They do that by driving their 4WD on the dirt roads and checking how long … More Road Trip Day 4 – From San Pedro de Quemez to Ojos de Perdiz
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