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March 2008 - Posts

• South America Summary

  We are now back in Sydney and I thought I'd write a summary of the various places and experiences. It has been a big rollercoaster ride through South America...the differences between the countries are huge. During the last six weeks I have taken off Read More... Posted Sunday, 23 March 2008 12:06 PM by rpallesen | 0 Comments

• Rio De Janeiro - Brasil

  We are now in Brasil after an overnight stopover in Santiago (The flights here in South America are fairly irregular so it can be difficult to get connecting flights without having stopovers). We hadn't booked a place to stay but at the airport the tourist Read More... Posted Saturday, 22 March 2008 6:08 AM by rpallesen | 0 Comments

• Sucre - Bolivia

  Wow, wow, wow...Sucre is everything that La Paz isn´t...it is fantastic. We took the bus from Potosi yesterday afternoon and drive through a fantastic landscape of deep canyons and high mountains and through passes of 4800 meters altitude. As soon as Read More... Posted Friday, 14 March 2008 10:23 AM by rpallesen | 0 Comments

• Potosi, The Mines - Bolivia

  Today was a really positive day compared to yesterday after I'd written my last post. We found an excellent restaurant (much better than most restaurants in Sydney) called El Meson...and the food was cheap as. For around USD 13 we got a three course dinner Read More... Posted Wednesday, 12 March 2008 11:54 AM by rpallesen | 0 Comments

• Potosi - Bolivia

  The drive from La Paz was pretty uneventful. The bus was a double decker as promised and our seat was in the front of the bus...but so was the toilet. Fortunately they kept the toilet locked pretty much the whole trip so no-one could use it (except Kim Read More... Posted Tuesday, 11 March 2008 10:00 AM by rpallesen | 0 Comments

• La Paz - Bolivia

  The bus ride to La Paz was interesting. It was a local bus so full of locals heading into La Paz 4 hours away. After about one hours drive through the high plains (4300 meters altitude) we suddenly arrived to a strait. I hadn´t studies the map properly Read More... Posted Monday, 10 March 2008 8:29 AM by rpallesen | 0 Comments

• Copacabana - Bolivia

  The bus ride from Cusco was interesting...but probably more for Kim than I (she called it horrendous). The company that we had bought our ticket from in Cusco came and picked us up at the hotel at 9.30 pm in a taxi and then drove us to the bus terminal Read More... Posted Monday, 10 March 2008 8:00 AM by rpallesen | 0 Comments

• Cusco - Peru

  Sunday we flew from Santiago to Cusco in Peru via Lima. Lima is very dry...almost a desert whereas the flight into Cusco was spectacular surrounded by tall green mountains. The hotel came to pick us up from the airport and the hotel is very centrally Read More... Posted Tuesday, 4 March 2008 2:07 AM by rpallesen | 0 Comments

• Santiago de Chile

  The last couple of days Kim and I have been in Santiago de Chile. Kim arrived a day late due to mechanical problems with the aircraft from Sydney and I arrived 6 hours late with Chris (my colleague) at 3am in the morning. Chris and I got ripped off by Read More... Posted Sunday, 2 March 2008 10:14 PM by rpallesen | 0 Comments