As we arrived in Brazil we arrived in the old border town of Corumbá.One of the first impressions we had when entering the portugese speaking Brazil after beeing so used to Spanish was that everybody suddenly seemed to be speaking Spanish with a very thick Dutch accent. This was a bit funny, but also quite hard to understand. Corumbá is today a small city on the border of Rio Paraguay at the border to Bolibvia. Even the citys railroad, which had once been...

Santa Cruz, which we got to near the end of January turned out to be quite a nice town, even though it was very new and therefore had few intersting buildings. It was nice to finally get down in the heat where it was always warm, even at night and airconditipning and celling fans becane as important in the hostel rooms as the hot showers had previously been. In Santa cruz we mainly saw the nice town square, where it was very visible that it was one of the richest...

Last time I wrote I was in La Paz, having just comne back from Chile and planning to go on a trek. The trek ended up being one day delayed because Rebecca got a biot ill, but the next day she was fit for fight again as we left on our trek at 8 am. I actually ended up being surprised about how hard the trek was, it turned out to be the hardest on my trip so far and this time I got plenty of sore leg muscles. At least this time we were properly aclimatized to the h...

Back in La Paz after a week of adventure. Last time I wrote I was in Potosi where we stayed for New Year. January 2nd, when the bussses started running again we took the bus south west to Uyuni where we booked a three day tour of the Uyuni salt flats for the next day. However the next day it turned out that due to the hollidays the city had run out of gasoline so we had to postpone the trip for a day. To spend the extra day we went to see another mining town loc...

Today we are starting the new year. As usual this is accompanied with a bit of hangover and we chose o spend the day sleeping late and relaxing at the hostel and walk around town. The last week we have been seeing very different sites. The 26th we went to see Tiwanaku which is a ruined city near La Paz. It used to be tha capital of a great Andean civilization for a thousand years, before climate changes caused their agricultural system to collapse. The survivors ...