BOLIVIA: LA PAZ & VALLEY OF THE MOON, 2022

Continuing our South American journey, we took a five-hour drive from Puno, Peru to La Paz, Bolivia. With the few border crossings we'd done on this trip, Bolivia was always the most challenging. To enter Bolivia, the American passport holders would need visas (US $160) so I and another traveler accompanied by one of our …

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Exploring the Atacama Desert: Llamapalooza, Volcanoes, Coloured lakes & Thermal pools.

We did a lot in 2022 after all the lockdowns and pandemic protocols were eased. It felt so good to get back to travelling again. Being based in Barbados, we were able to visit six Caribbean Island countries, see my earlier post, Cruising the Caribbean (Barbados to Barbados) April, 2022 (St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Dominica, Grenada, …

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Exploring Bolivia’s Unique Salt Flats

The next phase of our trip through South America would take us to the Bolivian Salt Flats, then on to Chile and the Atacama Desert which we'll recap in a subsequent post. A three-and-a-half-hour drive took us from the dusty mining town of Potosi to Uyuni. This town is the starting point for a lot …

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