At the Parque Cretacico here was a huge wall of dinosaur footprints, but not a single bone. Bolivian dinosaurs were immortal. The park asks for an extra 5Bs. to take pictures and pins the ticket to your shirt like a press badge. I hadn’t even considered that seeing Star Wars premier in Bolivia was within the realm of possibility until… Read more »
People from all over the world can easily cross into Bolivia, but the country makes a special hard case for Americans. If you are trying to enter Bolivia overland on a U.S. passport, here is my recent experience and advice on going from Puno, Perú to Copacabana, Bolivia. Visa Entrance into Bolivia requires a Visa. The Visa costs $135 and… Read more »
Visited the Eiffel Tower, all wrapped in lights attached by swaths of scotch tape. It’s strange how the most pleasant place in the city is the cemetary. Costs Cost yestoday: $50.14 Cost today:$41.29
The first impression of Sucre is that it’s just like La Paz. The main plaza is nice of course… As is the surrounding area for maybe five blocks out. It is, indeed, one of few places that is pleasant to walk around. It helps that the main plaza was barricaded off today. That creates an unusual feeling of peace in… Read more »
Today was a much needed rest day. I had no intention to spend any more time out in La Paz, so it was a good day to sleep in, buy a ticket to Sucre, and spend the rest of the day going through trekking pictures. I started the day with an unusual conversation with a couple of people at the… Read more »
The first rays of the sun lighting up the subtle snow covered curves of the glacier below are an astounding sight that I thought I may only see in movies and extreme skiing videos. We get up at midnight for the ascent. “We might not go.” is the first thing I hear spoken. Someone had stepped outside and reported the… Read more »
Day two is a short day of hiking followed by a long day of eating crackers, drinking tea, and napping. I am not sure if the extra full day at altitude (5150m) helps or hurts. I feel like I have acclimatized sufficiently and don’t have any trouble here. The cabin is almost as nice as base camp and we continue… Read more »
I was determined to summit a mountain in the Andes. I stopped in La Paz with the intention of spending three days to climb Huayna Potosí (6088m), as was recommended by previous trekking companions. This time I had spent much more time at altitude and felt well prepared and acclimatized so as not to repeat the previous failure. I booked… Read more »
I had one of my worse ideas today: I went up one of the teleféricos in La Paz and thought I would walk to the top of the other one. It is only a mile and a half along a flat road high above the city proper. However, the neighborhood right above the gondola is questionable. I started walking very… Read more »
I followed a recommendation of a well traveled American couple I met in Copacabana and went to a concert at the Museum of Musical Instruments for my first outing in La Paz. The concert took place in a tiny hall of the museum with not more than 30 people attending. It was the sort of event where one person sits… Read more »