(written by Holly) So, about a month has passed. about time for an update, methinks. After Arequipa we made our way north, passing through all the main tourist attractions including the much vaunted Machu Picchu. Jane and I were only really going there because whenever we told anyone in the UK we were going to South America they instantly piped up 'are you going to Macchu Picchu? Are you doing the Inca trail?' before we'd even mentioned peru. So we went to Macchu Picchu to see what all the fuss was about, but opted out of the Inca Trail because you [View Full Entry]

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(written by Holly) well, where to start? we havent been very good at this whole 'keeping the blog updated thing,' so i'll recap breifly to let you know where we've been... after Potosì we headed to Sucre, where we spent a lazy week 'learning Spanish' and making friends. in the 6 days we were there, i think we visited one museum (of warfare; the Israeli guy we went with, Kafir, got very scared when our tour guide started shaking things because he was pretty convinced the amo etc was all still live. and he was in the army, so i trust [View Full Entry]

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Potosi is an exhausting place to be - the altitude makes any form of exercise hugely tiring, and the intense heat in the sun followed by the bitter cold at night makes it impossible to acclimatize. The one significant thing we did in Potosi was visit the mines in Cerro Rico - the only reason Potosi was created, exists and when the mines are exhausted, Potosi will be a ghost town. Because of this the mines are hated and loved in the town - it’s the reason for its existed but condemns the majority of the population to a life of [View Full Entry]

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(Holly writing) After San Pedro de Atacama, Jane, Sandy and I booked a tour with Estrella Del Sur to take a 3 day excursion across the border into Bolivia, crossing Salar de Uyuni on the way - the biggest Salt Flats in the world. We took a bus to the border between the two countries, where luckily they let me cross without needing to see my Yellow Fever certificate (it's slowly making a pilgramage across the world to San Pedro..unfortunately we couldnt wait for it). 6 of us then enjoyed a breakfast of bananas, bread rolls and hot drinks in the [View Full Entry]

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(Holly writing) So, after Salta Jane and I headed to San Pedro de Atacama in Chile, which is the highest desert in the world - there are parts of it where rain has never been recorded! San Pedro itself is a tiny town/village which caters solely to tourists. It used to be an essential stop-off for merchants crossing into Bolivia from the Pacific, and was also once agricultural. now however, flying's easier and farming's harder. It's true what they say about deserts... they're hot in the day (marvellous) but FREEZING at night. it's so wierd having to take your fleeces around [View Full Entry]

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(Holly Writing) So.. we were only going to stay in Salta for a couple of days. How come we were still there after a week? well, as Jane and I were crossing the central plaza of Salta one sunny evening, we were approached by an American girl who asked whether we had any plans over the next few days... instantly suspicious that she was trying to sell us something, we were guarded until she convinced us that really what we wanted to do was go on a 5 day road trip with herself and two Israeli guys. We thought about it, [View Full Entry]

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(written by Holly) Well, we're getting on to the blogging bandwaggon quite late, but having just been recommended this site but fellow travellers Michael and Sarah, Jane and I are going to have a stab at keeping it updated. Please excuse any typos and excessively dull bits! So, where to begin? A brief recap of our route so far would be a good place i suppose. We left England on 27th March 2008, and flew to Buenos Aires where we had a fantastic few days watching Tango Shows, attending political demonstrations, walking round graveyards for the wealthy etc. We befriended a [View Full Entry]

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