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Category: World Trip 2009-2010

A 66-day adventure visting seven countries USA, Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, and New Zealand between 27 November 2009 and 31 January 2010.

  • World Trip 2009-2010: Day 33 – La Paz, Bolivia

    Tuesday 29 December 2009 Highlights: Witches Market, San Francisco Church, La Paz Cathedral, Presidential Palace, Moon valley Today sees us start the 3rd and last leg of the South American tour so later tonight we will met our new tour leader and two new tour members. Renato, Monica, Lance and Martin left today.

  • World Trip 2009-2010: Day 32 – La Paz, Bolivia

    Monday 28 December 2009 Highlights: Adventures on an overnight bus, Andrew failing the vindaloo challenge The overnight bus trip ended up taking 14.5 hours instead of the scheduled 12 due to the bus getting stuck in 2 different mud slides, an experience to be sure especially with my seat broken. This meant we got into…

  • World Trip 2009-2010: Day 31 – Uyuni Desert to La Paz, Bolivia

    Sunday 27 December 2009 Highlights: Geysers, thermal baths, Laguna Colorada (red lagoon), Laguna Verde (blue/green lake) Today we got up at 4.15 am, I was so asleep I managed to scalp myself going to the toilet, Bolivians are not very tall and a lot of the infrastructure reflects this with low ceilings and door frames,…

  • World Trip 2009-2010: Day 30 – Salt Flats to Uyuni Desert, Bolivia

    Saturday 26 December 2009 Highlights: Exploring Uyuni Desert, Flamingos After experiencing an amazing sunrise over the Salt Flats we said goodbye to our Salt Hotel and set off to explore the Uyuni Desert.  The Uyuni Desert has some amazing foundations and landscape. Along the way we run across a watering hole with has some pink…

  • World Trip 2009-2010: Day 29 – Uyuni to Salt Flats, Bolivia

    Friday 25 December 2009 Highlights: Exploring the Train Cemetery, Seeing how Salt is extracted, Exploring the Salt Flats, Christmas in Bolivia, Staying in a Salt Hotel Kelly was struggling due to altitude sickness and went to local hospital to receive some additional oxygen.  Kelly recovered quickly but it was a reminder to us all to…