We said Adios to Bolivia. We took a one-hour and twenty-minute shuttle from Tupiza to the border at Villazon. It is easy to find a shuttle going in that direction at the bust station. Before crossing the border, we exchanged U.S. dollars for Argentina pesos at the blue rate. It is better to do that on the Bolivian side of…
The Uyuni Salt Flats are the main reason we chose to visit Bolivia. Known as Salar de Uyuni in Spanish, it is the world’s largest salt flat. It is located in southwest Bolivia and is almost 4,000 square miles in area. The salt flat formed from several lakes existing around forty thousand years ago but have since evaporated. Parts of…
We took our first overnight bus from La Paz to Sucre. It was a 12-hour trip. We arrived at the bus station in La Paz an hour and a half before our bus. We learned that we could have shown up and booked the bus tickets at a cheaper price than we paid online at www.ticketsbolivia.com. When we arrived, several…
La Paz is the highest administrative capital city in the world at an elevation of almost 12,000 feet. Originally, we plannted to spend two nights in La Paz, but we were so tired that we decided to stay for nine nights. We had to move Airbnbs during the say, but we stayed in the same area in the south of…
We did not make any plans for Bolivia before heading there other than our first couple of nights at an Airbnb in La Paz. We were busy with my family visiting Cusco, Machu Picchu, and Lake Titicaca. We also had planning fatigue- it is real! We spent an extra night in Puno before heading to Bolivia, so we would have…
After we took the evacuation train out of Aguas Calientes we took a 7 am tour bus from Cusco to Puno. The bus company is called Turismo Mer. The bus had about 40 people on it. The seats were comfortable and there was a bathroom on board (for peeing only). The trip from Cusco to Puno took about 11 hours…
The main attraction of the trip with my family was visiting Machu Picchu. Machu Picchu is an ancient Inka Citadel built in the 1400s. It gained international attention in 1911 when explorer Hiram Bingham discovered the city. We arrived a day early at Machu Picchu because of transportation strike scheduled for two days. There were no buses, taxis, or trains…
We love traveling, but we miss our family while we are gone. It was exciting that my dad, his girlfriend Kay, my sister Emily, her husband Jonathan, and our adorable nephew Milo traveled to Peru! We are thankful when family and friends take the time and go out of their comfort zones to meet us out in the world. There…
We arrived in Cusco after three weeks in Urubamba. The boys said goodbye to their friends at Sol y Luna school, and we got ready for more adventure. We got an Airbnb in Cusco for a week before my family arrived. It is a great two bedroom convenient to the historic city center and San Blas Mercado. On our first…
Lucas and Henry attended Sol y Luna School for the three weeks we stayed in Urubamba. Sol y Luna was started by a couple who moved to Urubamba in 1988. The school began as an association to support local education and then decided to open a school Sol & Luna Association (asociacionsolyluna.com). The school offers English, computers, physical education, math, reading…