Category: Bolivia

  • Bolivia: Salt Flats

    Bolivia: Salt Flats

    Salt Flats I left for Uyuni alone on Saturday evening, since I absolutely still had to do the salt flats and time was starting to run out. The busride to this middle of nowhere was absolutely dreadful. I was quite ill, feverish and had some stomach problems, the bus broke down at 3am (apparently not…

  • Bolivia: Death road

    Bolivia: Death road

    After hearing so many backpackers rave about it in La Paz, me and my travel companions decided to cycle the Death Road. The death road used to be the “Most Dangerous Road In The World”. Several hundreds of people die every year falling into the ravine from the narrow road that is really not made…

  • Bolivia: La Paz

    Bolivia: La Paz

    It was time to go to La Paz, at 3.600m the highest located capital in the world. They say La Paz is a bowl, you could almost say it’s located in a very wide canyon, and driving into the city from the top gave an incredible view that immediately woke you up.  I took the…

  • Bolivia: Copacabana & Isla del Sol

    Bolivia: Copacabana & Isla del Sol

    When I decided it was time to leave Cusco, I had found 2 other solo travellers that would be my travel companions to Bolivia. Alek, a lovely Canadian that had been staying in the Kokopelli hostel for a few weeks as well, and Elle, an American girl who amazed us with her beer pong skillz…