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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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April 9, 2006
La de mi moto – el viaje a Salta
Bueno, parece que habia un poquito perdido de mis noticias. La de mi moto.
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April 9, 2006
San Pedro de Atacama – North Chile
After leaving Bolivia, San Pedro became my home for two days while I waited for a bus to take me back to Argentina. Known as a tourist mecca in the north of Chile, this little town is always filled with foreigners. It is small, quaint, and…
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April 9, 2006
Salar de Uyuni – Day Three (3)
At five in the morning we had packed our jeep and were on the trail, wrapped up in multiple jumpers and with gloves and beanies and a sleeping bag wrapped around our legs. It was very cold, almost freezing without the sun, and our…
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April 9, 2006
Salar de Uyuni – Day One (1)
We started from Uyuni township in Bolivia and the first day was spent on the salt lake. By the end of the day we had only just left the huge salt lake to stop for the night in a small township called San Pedrito de Quemez. We slept this…
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