Le 19/10/11, 16:05
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After another transportation trouble, I finally changed my plans and arrived by train in Tupiza in the south of Bolivia.
That's a nice place, once again really different from the rest of Bolivia (such a diverse country), and this time I felt like I was plunged into a western.
I stayed one day here, enjoying a 3 hours horse ride around, before planning a 4 day jeep trip to the Lipez and Uyuni Salar, Bolivia's most famous and unbelievable places.
For doing that you have to find an agency (very easy) and other guys to fill the jeep (4 or 5 person) if nobody has booked it before...I finally ended in a group of 5 french people(I haven't chosen it, but actually there are a lot of french travellers in Peru and Bolivia). Actually it was two couples, Maxime and Stephanie (french engineers from Paris, cool guys), and Sylvain and Ludovic (yes I'm pretty sure these two were gays, from Paris as well), Ludo was quite weird regarding with his food habits (basically he can't eat vegetables, fruit,and so many other stuffs if they were not cooked the way he wanted...I just remember him saying he liked donuts...) and was such a drama queen (he was with fever the last two days and behaved like he was dying...poor guy!)
for the rest it was really amazing, even if we were most of the time in the jeep, and the nights were freezing, with such a strong wind.
sometimes you just believe that you are in another planet...landscapes are so extreme, different and surrealistic...just take a look at the pics to understand what I'm talking about.
That's a nice place, once again really different from the rest of Bolivia (such a diverse country), and this time I felt like I was plunged into a western.
I stayed one day here, enjoying a 3 hours horse ride around, before planning a 4 day jeep trip to the Lipez and Uyuni Salar, Bolivia's most famous and unbelievable places.
For doing that you have to find an agency (very easy) and other guys to fill the jeep (4 or 5 person) if nobody has booked it before...I finally ended in a group of 5 french people(I haven't chosen it, but actually there are a lot of french travellers in Peru and Bolivia). Actually it was two couples, Maxime and Stephanie (french engineers from Paris, cool guys), and Sylvain and Ludovic (yes I'm pretty sure these two were gays, from Paris as well), Ludo was quite weird regarding with his food habits (basically he can't eat vegetables, fruit,and so many other stuffs if they were not cooked the way he wanted...I just remember him saying he liked donuts...) and was such a drama queen (he was with fever the last two days and behaved like he was dying...poor guy!)
for the rest it was really amazing, even if we were most of the time in the jeep, and the nights were freezing, with such a strong wind.
sometimes you just believe that you are in another planet...landscapes are so extreme, different and surrealistic...just take a look at the pics to understand what I'm talking about.
