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Landscapes (Salar de Uyuni-Part 2)

Posted in Bolivia, tagged , , on December 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »

I don’t know how many times I said the following phrase while on our tour, “I really feel like we’re on another planet.” Now I’ve seen mountains many times over the years, in Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, upstate New York, Vermont, Switzerland, and now Peru and Bolivia, but I have never seen the [...]

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Are We on Another Planet? (Salar de Uyuni-Part 1)

Posted in Bolivia, tagged , , on December 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »

No, we’re just in Bolivia.
I found myself asking this question multiple times on our four day tour through the Salar de Uyuni. First, the tour name is a little misleading as we didn’t even see the famous Salt Flats (Salar de Uyuni) until the morning of our fourth day. It would be more accurate [...]

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Gators and Monkeys and Snakes, oh my! (Parte Tres)

Posted in Bolivia, tagged , , on December 12, 2008 | 7 Comments »

The final morning of our Pampas tour, I again awoke to strange sounds on the roof of our cabin. I poked my head out the door and promptly grabbed my camera. The squirrel monkeys had decided that Thanksgiving morning was playtime! There must have been twenty or thirty of them bounding around in the trees [...]

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Gators and Monkeys and Snakes, oh my! (Parte Dos)

Posted in Bolivia, tagged , , , on December 11, 2008 | 7 Comments »

The first morning at our lodge (so the second day of the Pampas tour), our wakeup call came in the form of roaring howler monkeys. The howling started before dawn and is a sound like no other I have ever heard before. It is a low guttural sound, almost similar to a distant motor (a [...]

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Gators and Monkeys and Snakes, oh my!

Posted in Bolivia, tagged , , on December 10, 2008 | 4 Comments »

“You’re going to the jungle, aren’t you??”
We’ve heard this phrase more times than I can count. I was never really surprised to hear it—it’s one of those things that is kind of assumed to be on the itinerary when you’re spending half a year in South America. Needless to say, people were always a [...]

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