Mar 4, 2019 | South America
The most significant cities in Colonial times were Sucre, the original government capital and still the judicial capital, and Potosi, the silver mining capital. Firstly we visited Sucre. On a tour of the market we were taught to ask for our “yapa”...
Mar 4, 2019 | South America
We flew from Brazil to La Paz, Bolivia. La Paz, like most of Bolivia is very high altitude. The airport is at 4,200m so it was a bit of an altitude shock and a number of the group (including Ronnie) were affected. Some altitude sickness drugs, and Coca tea (made from...
Feb 18, 2019 | South America
The Pantanal is the largest tropical wetland area in the world. It’s home to lots of birds and caiman (relatives of the crocodile). We stayed on a working ranch. We went for a boat trip. We stopped to fish for Piranhas to feed to the Caimans (Caimen?). We were...
Feb 4, 2019 | South America
Iguazu falls are definitely one of the natural wonders of the world. We viewed the falls from both sides – Brazil and Argentina. Depending on the amount of water, there are up to around 300 individual waterfalls. The Iguazu falls are wider than the Victoria...
Feb 2, 2019 | South America
The G Adventures tour we joined in Rio “Atlantic to the Andes” used to be done in reverse so had some more relaxing visits at the end. So we started with relaxing on Ilha Grande (“large island”) which is just down the coast from Rio. There are...
Jan 25, 2019 | South America
We had a few days in Rio before meeting our next small group tour “Atlantic to the Andes”. Rio de Janiero was discovered and named by the Portuguese explorer Gaspar de Lemos. He thought the bay was a river mouth hence “Rio” in Portuguese. If he...
