Travels in Bolivia, Chile and Argentina 2014.
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Note the size of the Uyuni Salt Flats - that's BIG for us Teds!
Pembroke and Somerville enjoyed practising their newly adquired spanish on an adventurous trip to Bolivia, Chile & Argentina in April & May 2014. They flew from Madrid, to Lima, then onwards to Santa Cruz, before the getting in a small Amazonas plane to the old Bolivian capital of Sucre. A really nice hotel here - and they even widened their horizons further than their customary 'guardians of the bed' role, with regard to having their photos taken
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| They loved the life in the parador Santa Maria de Real, Sucre , and their parents enjoyed a local folkshow and the colonial buildings of this former Capital City | ||||
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| & even met the odd zebra-odd 1 | Did not find any silver in Potosi : were glad not to go into a mine | The vast salt flat of Uyuni was,well, just awe inspiring | ||
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| Liked the hexagonal salt shapesand then slept in a salt bed andwalked on salt floors. Salt, salt! | Then on to a hotel made all of stone. Made friends with llamas | |||
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| Once out of the jeep, they insisted on having lots of photos taken, with David, with Jose and on top of the jeep, Wilmer . Fascinated by this viscacha, who eyed them too!. | ||||
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| Onto a desert hotel, with friend Yasser. Then mud, mud,glorious! | before settling down to 3 days of luxury at San Pedro de Atacama. As much as one could drink, | |||
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| spoilt by the friemdly waiters | And taken to the Humedales | Then into Argentina & more salt flats, even a chance for a swim | ||
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| Comfy again in Salta but not too keen on this 500yr old mummy | South to Quebada de Conchas | Views in Tafi - but not so comfy | Chanarmuyo Bodega was fine | |
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| & they enjoyed wondrous views and the bodega here | Cablecabril ruins nr Chilecito | 8 rivers to cross to get to bed in Valle Fertil. . . Parents, Talampaya | ||
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| A different Sphinx, valle de la Luna, to that seen by the old Teds. Then luxury again in Mendoza. Tapas, log fires, asados .... | Degustacion menus | |||
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| in Clos de Chacras Bodega lots of small courses and wines to accompany them. Also admired by Tania | Then flew back with the Pope! | |||