lunes, 19 de enero de 2009

Lake tour


The vulcano just outside of San Pedro


The salt lake


We were swimming in the salt lake which was really hard and really funny cause you are floating and it's really hard to keep your feet under water - like the dead sea :-)




We are jumping into the two eyed lake - no salty water but a bit sweet which was really funny


You can make funny pictures because the perspective is different

The sunset where we drank Pisco Sours and eat chips and peanuts - a great end to a great trip!

Bike tour

The area around San Pedro de Atacama (Chile)
We met up with one of my friends from Cusco - Moikall fom Australia which was really cool! We went biking around San Pedro de Atacama
Moikall and Astrid relaxing by the river

Lene on her bike!

jueves, 15 de enero de 2009

Uyuni

Uyuni was just a stop before our jeep tour - it was in the middle of nowhere but the sky was amazing at night!

miércoles, 14 de enero de 2009

Silver mine in Potosi

Lene with dynamite
Astrid in her very hot costume...

Lene with some of the miners!


The silver line going through the mine


Lene and her team - Lene was in an english speaking group and Astrid was in the spanish speaking group without a camera, so we don't have any pictures of her in the mine!


Valle de la luna








Chachaltaya mountain

Lene at the top of the mountain... Astrid was at the bottom drinking hot Coca tea for the altitude...

The way up to the top at 5460m


We are in 5300m! Very cold and a bit too high for Astrid!



Llamas on the way!




On the way up to Chachaltaya - 4400m and very beautiful landscape





La Paz - City tour

The electric system in La Paz - very funny!
A marked street

There was a park on the top and a monument that we don´t really know what means, but itwas pretty!


El mirador - a view point over La Paz




lunes, 12 de enero de 2009

The World´s Most Dangerous Road - on a bike!

During our introduction... Astrid is getting second thoughts for sure and Lene as well, because there is a lot to remember and it´s not every day you volenterily go down the world´s most dangerous road!
Lene is ready...

Astrid is ready, sort off....


Everyone before take off



Let´s go!!!

The first part down hill! 4700m and very cold!!!



It get´s better and warmer...


After about 10km Astrid managed to loose one of her contacts, so the rest of the trip down Astrid could only see with one eye which wasn´t so good... But we had to go down, and it went fine without bigger problems!


Stop to breathe...

The real dangerous road - 30 km of this with no fence and 100m drop down!

The road...

Someone is having fun!!! We were taking it slow all theway down and sadly there is only pictures of the fast ones, so that´s all we got :-) Good day but a bit scary as well!

jueves, 8 de enero de 2009

Lago Titicaca - Uros and Taquile

Uros Islands


Lene and the houses they live in on the floating islands!





The fancy boat we were sailing with!




The road up to Taquile island - 4000m and the altitude is horrible - 10 steps and you need a break to breathe!!!

The children playing....