Day: 21 September 2008
Repositioning to Brazil
To get to our next `major destination, Rio de Janeiro, we have to fly back to Santiago in Chile. We flew out of La Paz yesterday morning, fromm the `highest commercial airport in the world. La Paz Airport is a combined military and civil airport and is at a height of 4,300 metres (14,107 feet). […]
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We arrived late into La Paz after our all day trip from Puno. We only took a –couple- of photos of Puno as the town is basically a collection of little square brick buildings on the hillside around the lake. Things are really inexpensive in Bolivia with about six Boliviaros to the Australian Dollar. We […]
Read MoreOur Journey to Bolivia
On Thursday, our trio continued as we travelled around Lake Titikaka by bus and, after 90-minutes, we crossed the border from Peru into Bolivia near the town of Copacobana. (Not the Brazilian city by th same name, where you could expect to find Barry Manilow). At the border, we all had to get out of […]
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