Last hours…

Spend a beautiful week in Cochabamba. It is always a pleasure to come back to this nice city with it’s friendly people, mild weather and delicious food! Sitting here enjoying my last few hours in this nice city. I will leave tonight for La Paz, where I will spend the night before taking my flight … Read more

Catching up

My parents and friends left this morning for the 3 day tour in the Salar area and I’m still in Uyuni… Yes, I didn’t join the tour. As I said, someone has influenced my priorities, thus I’ll be catching a nice plane (Douglas Super DC-3) this afternoon to Cochabamba. Since I’ve done the tour before … Read more

Anata Andina

The group from yesterday were rehearsing for today’s ‘entrada’ of the Anata Andina. The Anata Andina takes place before the carnival and is a procession of the indigineous people from the area around Oruro. They thank ‘Pacha Mama’ (Mother Earth) for the agricultural production, thus it is kind of a harvest festival. Today dozens or … Read more

Lake Titicaca (II)

Alright, this one could also be called ‘Isla del Sol’, but so could part I be called ‘Copacabana’ – whatever… this blog has intros, so I fill them 🙂 So we got to the island around 3.30 p.m. and started climbming up the ‘Escalera del Inca’. Of course with all our luggage we got pretty … Read more