Bolivia: 8 articles + 304 fotos + (video + sketches to come)

Atacama desert Day 1: 6.mars.2004 .
I dreamed about month about this place. I can remember in the metro in Paris reading about the dryest place in the world. This article in the national geographic just fascinate me, and few month later (today) I cross the frontier from Chile to Bolivia and get into the ATACAMA desert in compagny of some people that
Atacama desert Day 2: 7.mars.2004
After staying in the badest hotel of my life, I needed to leave the civilisation and Puerto Montt. With the few rest of money I could take a bus to the Osorno Volcan and camp somewhere there. So I did and back to the nature !

Atacama to Uyuni Salar Day 3: 7.mars.2004
South of Puerto Montt in Chile, Isla Chiloe is one of the most humid part of the world. 2200 mm annual precipitation by Cucao and an average temperature arround the 10 degrees.

Potosi and the mines 8.mars.2004
What i m doing here in this dirty shaft with this yellow clothes and this blue helmet? Well as far as I can remember everything begunn with Lorenzo s question: Where are you going after Uyuni Salar? Hmmm I dodn t know realy. Oururo? But Lorenzo and Milan had to speak about the mines, about the dynamite...So one day later I m here with a nitroglycerine stick on one hand and coca leaves on the other.

Sucre 10.mars.2004
La Paz 12.mars.2004
I don t have to much to say on La Paz but it is few pictures and words pain This morning we where on the bus, looking out of the window to this amazing town. Can you imagine a mountain covered by tousend of red bricks houses just looking over the town La Paz..
La Paz - Coroico by bike 13.mars.2004
Coroico. Another surprise from this country. Bolivia get some bad food but some realy crazy things. La Paz to Coroico by bike a nice tour through this junglely landscape. Ups...I miss to mention that this is the most dangerous street of the world ...
Titicaca Lake 16.mars.2004
Short trip in Isla de Sur, on the Titicaca lake...
From Chile to Bolivia
 
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