June – August
2005
Tupiza
From
The 4 day 4wd tour through southern
The high altitude, between 3000 & 5000m above sea level
meant that temperatures got bloody low…
Our group, with Nelson, our driver, guide and cook… what a
star!
Another hot pool… although when we got out into the wind,
we were the opposite of hot!
Our highest point of the tour was this crater at 5000m
above sea level. Geysers, bubbling mud
and the smell of sulphur were abundant…
Our accommodation was basic to say the least. Lucky we had layers and layers of llama
blankets to stop us from being frozen…
These vicunia are another member of the llama family…
It was quite windy on the lava fields…
The end of the tour saw us sleeping in the salt hotel which,
you guessed it, is made entirely of salt (except the bed cover)…
Shoe shine boys in
We took the Dino Truck to the nearby quarry to see…
… not real life dinosaurs, but…
… dinosaur footprints.
These footprints are about 50 million years old and were made in a
lake bed.
Over the years the lake bed has rotated to almost vertical. The footprints are in the wall face on the
left…
The whitewash buildings of
From
But first, nature calls…
The vertical drops along the way…
At the end of the road, we spent a few nights in Coroico in
the Bolivian jungle…
The highest capital city in the world at 3800m,
Rurrenabaque
A little 12 seat plane took us to Rurrenabaque in the
After a long and bumpy 4wd, we the piled into a long motorised
canoe to take us to our campsite in the jungle…
Some of the wildlife along the way…
Searching for anaconda.
We didn’t find what we were looking for, but…
… we saw this little fella.
Apparently a very potent bite.
Then came the piranha fishing…
One of the many flat tyres we got…
