Category: Bolivia

  • South America: Our Favorites

    We really loved our three and a half months in South America, from the tropical shores of the Caribbean in Colombia, to snorkeling with sea lions in the Galapagos Islands to hiking among 6000+ meter peaks in Peru. It’s an immensely varied continent, and we barely even scratched the surface. We found nothing but warm and…

  • Bolivia and Argentina: General Observations

    I think our posts generally do a decent job of describing where we’ve been, what we’ve done, and what we’ve been eating, but I’m not sure we’ve given you our general impressions of the countries or their culture (although you can often probably gather some of that). In any event, the last two countries we’ve…

  • Yum: Jugo de Durazno Seco

    We’re always on the lookout for new street food, especially if the locals are eating it, so after seeing stands in La Paz selling glasses of amber liquid with a strange round object at the bottom, we eventually worked up our courage to ask what it was and try a glass. Despite our best guesses…

  • Video Dump 2

    Here are a few videos we’ve taken that haven’t found their way into our last few posts. First, the most pigeons we’ve ever seen, at Plaza Murillo in La Paz Bolivia. Also, there were people selling bags of corn with signs saying something like: “Sterilization: instead of a cruel death”. We think they irradiate the…

  • Yum: Pique Macho

    Pique Macho,  roughly translated, means man-snack. It may not look that appetizing, but Pique Macho is a classic Bolivian dish containing beef, french fries, onions, peppers, ‘sausage’ (i.e., hot dogs), and hard-boiled egg. I suppose it’s kind of like an American casserole, which I have always thought of as a dish that just contains whatever…

  • Southwest Bolivia: Tour from Tupiza to Uyuni

    After a relaxing few days in Coroico, we high-tailed it south to the small town of Tupiza, famous for being near the (possible) final resting place of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and for being the less-popular gateway to the fascinating high-mountain desert of Bolivia. We booked a four day tour and hopped in…

  • The World’s Most Dangerous Road and Coroico

    When we got to Bolivia, we knew we definitely wanted to do one thing: pick one place and just relax and catch up on life somewhere peaceful that we didn’t have to spend a dozen hours on a bus to get to. Bolivia isn’t a huge country, but many of its most interesting regions and…

  • La Paz

    After a somewhat hectic entrance into Bolivia, we were happy to arrive to our hotel in the neighborhood of Sopocachi in La Paz. We didn’t really know what to expect of this city of almost two million people and 4,000m above sea-level (the world’s highest capital), as most people either love or hate large cities…

  • Our Pace or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Journey

    One of the things we’ve had the most trouble with on this trip is our pace: we’ve budgeted a year for this trip, and we also have set up several intermediate deadlines for ourselves, such as volunteering in the Galapagos and meeting friends in Tanzania and India. Because of these set plans, it’s necessary to…