Santa Cruz to Campo Grande

Monday 26th October 2015 evening The journey to Campo Grande started by arriving at 7.30pm at Santa Cruz terminal bus station as I was told by Mauricio, the guy who sold me the ticket…and realising that the bus was leaving only at…9pm!!! Thanks….Anyway. It was interesting to observe how buzzying the station was at night. … More Santa Cruz to Campo Grande

La Paz to Santa Cruz

Monday 26th October 2015 I woke up at 5.15am, packed my bag and said good-bye to Samantha at 5.45am. Who knows when and where we would meet again? Probably in another unexpected place! As we had already met on 4 continents, she said next time we should meet in Africa!! Why not!!! 😀 I jumped … More La Paz to Santa Cruz

Isla del Sol – Day 2

Sunday 25th October 2015 Here was the view from our window of the harbour at 7am, when it was still really quiet. The view was clear and we could see the snowy peaks of the mountains in the background. We slept a bit longer and around 10am decided to go for breakfast. There was more … More Isla del Sol – Day 2

Isla del Sol – Day 1

Saturday 24th October 2015 We woke up at 5am with the alarm clock, slept in until 5.20am, got ready and grabbed a minibus from the street from Obrajes neighbourhood where Sam lives to the La Paz bus terminal. We were there around 6.15am and went to different booths to find bus tickets for Copacabana. This agency … More Isla del Sol – Day 1

Huayna Potosi – Day 2

Monday 19th October 2015 With Annabel we woke up at 11.30pm and started getting ready. Well…woke up. I actually didn`t sleep much that night, so at 11.08pm, I started looking at my GPS-clock more often until 11.30pm. I touched the arm of Annabel who was sleeping on my left. Annabel was kind of awake too … More Huayna Potosi – Day 2

Huayna Potosi – Day 1

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 FranciscoÂŽs church that we can see in the background 8.30am – 9am … More Huayna Potosi – Day 1

La Paz

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

From Uyuni to 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

From Calama to Uyuni

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