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True Bolivianite: The Story of Ametrine
31 August, 2011, Matthew Grace
To reach the AnahI mine, one must trace the gems’ voyage in reverse, up the Paraguay River from Puerto Quijarro, a small, dusty town in the extreme east of Bolivia Ametrine, a purple-and-yellow blendof amethyst and citrine semi preciousgems, is known as bolivianite inside of Bolivia. For years, it was ...
Salar de Uyuni
25 August, 2011, Tim Deeks
Having gone ahead to the bus station to bribe the bus driver to delay the bus to Uyuni to give the girls time to arrive back from Rurrenabaque, I made a new friend on the 12 hour journey. Lucio seemed very keen to tell us all about Salar, and when ...
Crossfest, Santa Cruz
25 August, 2011, Gabriel Kumontoy
All four of us are still dog tagged in our wrists – we’re all blue (VIP) members of Crossfest 2011 even though we had left Santa Cruz four days ago, and will still continue to be for months to come until the blue non-biodegradable tag disintegrates by itself, in its ...
Rurrenabaque
25 August, 2011, Kirsty Hough
Our first site of Rurrenabaque was of the small airfield that comprised a collection of huts and an airstrip with cows and pigs grazing on it. The plane journey had been interesting, with the plane being no bigger than a tin can, but offering some amazing views of the Andes ...
Death Road!
25 August, 2011, Eleanor Potter
Death Road is a pretty scary name, and it led at least one of our group (namely myself) to be more than a little hesitant about taking up the challenge in the first place! Let me just explain the challenge: take a downhill bike all the way down Death Road, ...
Cholita Wrestling!
19 August, 2011, Tim Deeks
On Sunday, I experience possibly the most surreal experience of my life. We had rushed back from Lake Titicaca to witness the phenomenon that is ‘Cholita Wrestling’ in El Alto. I had no idea what to expect… Once we got over the cringe-worthily feigned nature of it all (WWF fooled ...
Lake Titicaca
19 August, 2011, Tim Deeks
We spent this weekend in Copacobana by Lake Titicaca. Those of us without dehabilitating hangovers left on Friday morning to arrive in time for lunch. Worryingly, when we asked about our hostel in the tourist offices (the immediate impression of Copacobana is that it is far more touristy than La ...
Our Bolivian Feast
19 August, 2011, Tim Deeks
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Just three hours after getting back from a our first experience at the nightclub ‘Traffic’, and with the taste of last night’s anticucho (a kebab of cow’s heart and potatoes sold on the street) still rather too prominent in my mouth, I woke up to keep to my arrangement to ...
First email home from Bolivia
19 August, 2011, Eleanor Potter
^ The view from our penthouse window Right, I have a bit of time now, so should be able to fill you in on the essentials! As a general rule, everything here is pretty relaxed! The most common word in Bolivia seems to be ‘mañana’! I was delighted to get ...