Our last night in Potosi was dominated by watching the movie The Devil´s Miner, all about a 14 year old kid who works in the silver mines that Sam visited earlier that day. Miners´life expectancy is around 35 years. The dust in their lungs congeals and hardens, they begin to cough up blood and die [...]
Archive for May, 2008
Surviving the Salar
May 27, 2008
Sweet like Sucre
May 21, 2008
Firstly, to Ali, EWWWWWWW!!! I shall be going nowhere near any body of water that isn`t the sea or a pristine swimming pool for, well, ever, frankly. Thanks for the (highly disgusting) advice. Secondly, i have great photos but the internet connection here is sooooo slow, that puttting them up is utterly torturous. Anyone who [...]
Bienvenido Bolivia
May 18, 2008
So it`s been bye-bye Brazil and bienvenido a Bolivia. Sensibly, we elected to fly from Rio to Santa Cruz – neglecting our original plan to catch a 25 hour bus from Rio to Campo Grande and do the Panatal (btw, if you are a proper traveller, you have to `do`a place, not go there or [...]
The City that Keeps On Giving
May 10, 2008
Not only does Rio boast the beautiful surroundings, happening nightlife and everything else I´ve waxed lyrical about in the last few posts, but a two hour bus ride and an hour-long boat trip will bring you from there to Ilha Grande – an island paradise the likes of which I thought only existed in the [...]
Rio part 2
May 7, 2008
I guess what goes up must come down, and after the high of hang gliding, we were dealt a fearsome blow. Ok, so I´m over-dramatising (me? I know, so unlikely). But on the night following the last entry, I went to bed at around 1, in a six-person dorm. A couple of hours later I was woken [...]
