http://www.lionel-adams.co.uk/travel The adventures of... Lionel and Sandrinha Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:22:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [singlepic=339,420,340,,center] After 5 days in San Pedro de Attacama it was time to move on. We'd done most of the worthwhile activities: Sand-boarding (very cool!), Sunset at the Luna Valley walk (Wonderful landscape, and quite moonlike!) etc... The only thing we couldn't do was the Star Tour in the Attacama dessert, ... http://www.lionel-adams.co.uk/travel/2009/09/the-3-amigos-travel-south/ I was loving San Pedro. The warm sunshine, the lovely small town feel, the hammocks in the hostel. It was great to just kick back and enjoy the basics after a full-on-couple-of-months through Peru and Bolivia. Sandra turned up at the Residenial Vilacoya at around 12pm on Sunday 6th and ... http://www.lionel-adams.co.uk/travel/2009/09/the-dogs-of-san-pedro-de-attacama/ [singlepic=334,420,340,,center] Having waved goodbye to the rest of the group I was suddenly feeling lonely. For some reason I had a different transfer ticket to the others and to my dismay no-one seemed to have a clue as to when the bus would show. Remembering that I had to get a ... http://www.lionel-adams.co.uk/travel/2009/09/stranded-at-the-border/ [singlepic=323,420,340,,center] We both left Potosi early, myself for Uyuni and Sandra for Tupiza. I was a little nervous about taking off on my own as I wasn't sure how I'd fare with my lack of Spanish and we had both been travelling together for such a long time that it felt ... http://www.lionel-adams.co.uk/travel/2009/09/journey-to-salar-de-uyuni-lionels-version/ [singlepic=360,420,340,,center] After being in Potosi for a couple of days visiting the lovely architecture, I decided to book on a tour to the mines, and where better than Potosi, where the number one attraction is the mine. I have never been to a mine before, so for me this was something ... http://www.lionel-adams.co.uk/travel/2009/08/adventure-down-the-mines/ To escape the incessant cold I decided to go our for a drink. Sandra wanted to stay by the heater as she had a tiring day down the mines. So looking for a pub I stumbled across a non-descript bar with no name. I walked in and ordered a beer. ... http://www.lionel-adams.co.uk/travel/2009/08/drinking-with-the-old-boys-of-potosi/ After departing La Paz we started on a journey that would take us through several towns including Oruro, the capital Sucre, Potosi an old mining town and eventually Uyuni, where we would take a tour through the Salar de Uyuni; the worlds largest salt flats. So, our first stop ... http://www.lionel-adams.co.uk/travel/2009/08/journey-across-bolivia/ [singlepic=316,420,340,,center] After few days of rest in La Paz, we decided to endure on another adventure. This time we chose the Choro Trek, a 3 dayer, starting from La Paz and ending in a small mountain top village called Corroico. We bumped into Karin, the German girl we met ... http://www.lionel-adams.co.uk/travel/2009/08/choro-trek/ [singlepic=308,420,340,,center] From La Paz we decided to go for a trek into the amazon. I mean, no trip to South America would be complete without a sojourn into the Amazon right?? So we headed north to a small town called Rurrenabaque which is used as a base to enter the start ... http://www.lionel-adams.co.uk/travel/2009/08/into-the-amazon/ We made our way into Bolivia via Copacabana where we stayed for 2 nights to celebrate yet another independence day; liberation from the Spanish again! It really was becoming a habit of ours. We should rename the whole trip to The Wedding & Independence day celebration tour! We quite liked Copacabana ... http://www.lionel-adams.co.uk/travel/2009/08/bolivia-and-electric-showers/