Before we go into details, the most important thing about the tour: Regardless of which city you begin, ask for the route that will put you at the salt flat near the end of the tour. What is this salt flat thing? Salar de Uyuni...
Street food holds a special place in the whole travel experience but is often a gamble for the faint stomached. To my surprise, most of the street food vendors I came across in South America had pretty clean set up and there was rarely anything alarming. In...
With a population of roughly 25,000, Tupiza is known as the “town where Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid met their end at the hands of the Bolivian army.” From Uyuni where the salt flats are, many travelers will select the route that goes to the Atacama...
To tip or not to tip??? I did not have to tip in Colombia, Peru, or Bolivia. Chile was a hit or miss, they wouldn’t say no to it but I didn’t see every passenger tip either. Now Argentina, they will “charge” a baggage fee...
From Uyuni, one can take a train or bus directly to Villazon, or stop by Tupiza and take a bus to Villazon. The bus station was only 15-20 minutes walk to the border immigration office. Along the way there were countless shops and stalls full of...
Returned from the pampas as new wo/men who conquered the river, we get one night of rest in town to prepare for the march into the Amazon jungle the next day. We came across a hole in the wall restaurant and got ourselves more than...
Why the Amazon again, after all the mosquitoes, sweat and tears from the last trip to the Amazon, one might ask? There’s only one answer to that. Because I had some of the the best and worst times throughout this trip in the Amazon. Plus...
To cut to the chase, here’s what one needs to do to get pass that line between Peru and Bolivia: Step 1: If you hold a US passport, be sure to have pristine US dollars of $135 or more (in case they reject any). Between...