Thursday 8th October 2015 I woke up around 5.30am and went out to take some sunrise photos. Tahua is located North of the Salar de Uyuni and the hotel where we were staying was quite next to it. The little hill nearby at dawn. Walking towards the church. View to the right, the Salar is … More Road Trip Day 3 – From Tahua to San Pedro de Quemez
Wednesday 7th October 2015 Here was the view from the hostel in Colchane from my window in the morning. Eduardo gave us a couple of papers to fill that we would need to cross the Chili – Bolivia border. Jeez that was the most paper heavy border I had seen so far! Off we went … More Road Trip Day 2 – From Colchane to Tahua
Tuesday 6th October 2015 Today my dad turned 70!!! In Putre. Whoohoo!!! We setup the table with gifts and the brownie with the 2 candles ready to lit up. I asked Daria, Thomas and Melissa if they were up for singing when he was entering. He entered the brekky room, we started singing happy birthday, … More Road Trip Day 1 – From Putre to Colchane
Monday 5th October 2015 In the morning we had brekky and then jumped in the car of Eduardo and off we were to the Lauca National Park to see the Chungara lake and a few more things. Here is a map of the park. You can see on it also where Socoroma is, next to … More Lauca National Park
Sunday 4th October 2015 I woke up early in Arica at the Sunny Days hostel, ready to head for the bus off to Putre. Ross prepared an awesome brekky for me in the morning. Here was the table and the surroundings, don`t you feel like at home looking at this shot? Much more cosy than any … More Socoroma Village Party
Saturday 3rd October 2015 I woke up around 5am and the first thing I did was to check out tips online about the border crossing between Peru and Chile. Sometimes, border crossing can be tricky, sometimes stressful. Better know which scams to avoid, if there is any! I found this really good detailed explanation of … More Arequipa to Arica
Friday 2nd October 2015 I spent a total of about 5 weeks in Peru, about a week around Cusco, visiting the Macchu Picchu, about a week in Lima if we add up the 4 times I stopped over there, about a week in the mountains next to Huaraz going on the Santa Cruz trek and a … More Conclusion about Peru
Friday 2nd October 2015 We met next to the main reception, ready to climb up. Some of us still had jumpers on, but the few who were in T-shirts already had got it right as we quickly took our layers off when we started going up! Here was the valley where we had stayed for the … More Colca Canyon Trek – Day 3
Thursday 01st October 2015 I could not believe we were already in October!!! I had now been travelling for 3 months!! Already!!! Arghh!! We started our morning by blowing our nose, because the air was soooo dry!!! Here is the view of the village in the morning. We had pancakes for brekky! I remember going … More Colca Canyon Trek – Day 2
Wednesday 30th September 2015 I was just ready at 3.02am and about to go downstairs when a guy came to knock on the dorm`s room to pick me up! Perfect timing! I was actually surprised to see 6 other people already in the mini-van when I entered it. That`s called efficiency! We drove for a few hours … More Colca Canyon Trek – Day 1
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