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April 12, 2006
Endurance Travel – A Break in Carmargo
Finding a Ticket Onward Our bus finally arrives in Carmargo at 2pm. After climbing off, I look around to see if there is a bus to take me to Potosí. Just as I am looking, a bus pulls up behind us with a sign to Potosí. Thinking that it…
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April 12, 2006
Endurance Travel – Making it to Carmargo
Leaving the City Leaving the city entrance behind us we began our ascent up the first mountain. We had beaten the blockades and now had a free road ahead of us. Our climb soon gave us some spectacular views over the city and valley basin…
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April 12, 2006
YWAM Tarija – An Early Childhood Centre
Here I am in Tarija, staying at the YWAM base here. This base is not like many of the bases of YWAM in that it does not run courses or training. What it does however is something very important for the community. Run by one woman who is…
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April 11, 2006
D-Day, Salta
Today is the day that I decide if I am going by motorbike or by bus. Much earlier in the week I had decided that today would be the day that I left, with or without my bike. Even so, when I did leave, it still seemed very sudden.
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April 11, 2006
Endurance Travel – The Final Leg To Sucre
Confusion It is 7.45pm and I am on the bus and moving. It is all quite strange really. People without tickets were clamouring to get aboard as they closed the door and took off. They said that we were going to return to this plaza again…
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April 11, 2006
Crossing Borders in Bus – San Pedro to Salta
The bus ride from San Pedro de Atacama, Chile to Salta in Argentina lasted from 10.30am in the morning until 11pm that night, travelling over the Andes ranges during the day. Most of the sights were the same that I had seen during my tour…
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April 11, 2006
Endurance Travel – Beating the Blockades
Well, I have just arrived in Sucre this morning. By all rights I should have still been in Tarija. The transit strikes were extended another 24hrs and there was supposed to be no exit from the city. But I found one.
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April 10, 2006
Waiting in Salta
Right now I am in Salta, ready to continue my journey onward to Buenos Aires. I have not left yet because to travel on my motorbike I need to have papers to prove that it is mine. These papers which were from the previous owner, I sent…
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April 10, 2006
Calama City, Chile
The city of Calama is in the middle of a desert. We travelled for an hour and a half from San Pedro de Atacama where we were staying to arrive in Calama and saw nothing but dry, dusty, desert with virtually no vegetation. Only a few tuffs…
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April 10, 2006
Salar de Uyuni – A 3 Day Tour
I have just arrived in Chile after a three day tour of the Salar de Uyuni – the largest salt lake in the earth. The tour covers a lot more than just the salt lake, which was only the first day, but every part of the entire tour revealed…
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