Entries from 'bolivia'
Day 298
- Aperture: f/5
- ISO: 100
- Shutter Speed: 1/640 s
- Focal Length: 70mm
- Camera: Canon EOS 60D
We woke early to watch the sunrise over the lagoon and hot spring from the comfort and warmth of our accommodation. The temperature during the night easily dropped below zero and as we were watching the sunrise we also watched all the other tour groups arrive and take a dip in the hot springs. Within…
Day 296
- Aperture: f/5
- ISO: 100
- Shutter Speed: 1/2000 s
- Focal Length: 18mm
- Camera: Canon EOS 60D
Uyuni Salt Flats, the largest salt flats in the world! Our 3 day salt flat tour began with a quick stopover in the train graveyard that we had already visited yesterday evening, however now the guide was able to explain the history behind the graveyard. The trains were built by the British and bought by…
Day 295
- Aperture: f/5
- ISO: 100
- Shutter Speed: 1/40 s
- Focal Length: 16mm
- Camera: Canon EOS 60D
This is the awesome train graveyard on the edge of the biggest salt flats in the world! Today we boarded our bus to Uyuni which is thankfully the last bus we have to catch in this country. It seems we cannot take a bus in Bolivia without some sort of drama or annoyance. Today was…
Day 293
- Aperture: f/6.3
- ISO: 100
- Shutter Speed: 1/8 s
- Focal Length: 90mm
- Camera: Canon EOS 60D
Potosi. This is one of the highest cities in the world at about 4000 meters and home to the largest silver mine in the world. The mine has been operating for almost 500 years and is still mined by thousands of people who work as part of independent mining groups. The bus to Potosi took…
Day 292
- Aperture: f/6.3
- ISO: 100
- Shutter Speed: 1/800 s
- Focal Length: 60mm
- Camera: Canon EOS 60D
This is the unusual landscape of Maragua crater just outside of Sucre, Bolivia. The whole “crater” is lined by some strange arced rock formations that have been pushed up on a 45 degree angle all the way around. A lot of tour companies claim the crater is from an ancient volcano, but it is in…
Day 291
- Aperture: f/6.3
- ISO: 100
- Shutter Speed: 1/1000 s
- Focal Length: 70mm
- Camera: Canon EOS 60D
This may just look like a boring wall, but this is actually one of the most exciting things we have seen in South America, The Dinosaur Dance floor! This wall of Dinosaur footprints is the largest collection of dinosaur footprints anywhere in the world (look at the digger and two workers sitting on the rock…
Day 290
- Aperture: f/6.3
- ISO: 100
- Shutter Speed: 1/6 s
- Focal Length: 90mm
- Camera: Canon EOS 60D
So the overnight bus to Sucre was fun as per usual. I took a sleeping pill which managed to block out most of everyones inconsiderations for their fellow bus passengers and awoke at about 8am as we were arriving into the small Unesco Heritage listed city of Sucre. Sucre is the official Capital city of…
Day 289
- Aperture: f/6.3
- ISO: 100
- Shutter Speed: 1/640 s
- Focal Length: 35mm
- Camera: Canon EOS 60D
The Tiwanaku Ruins. This will probably be our last ancient ruin site in South America as we start to head South towards ruin-less Chile. Tiwanaku is considered one of the most important civilisations prior to the Incan Empire, Tiwanaku was the ritual and administrative capital of a major civilisation which spanned from Peru to Chile and lasted…
Day 288
- Aperture: f/6.3
- ISO: 100
- Shutter Speed: 1/125 s
- Focal Length: 50mm
- Camera: Canon EOS 60D
Today we organised our bus out of La Paz for tomorrow night and then went to check out the front gates of the infamous San Pedro Prison. Surprisingly there is a really nice plaza right in front of the prison where you can sit and watch the families come and go, as well as watch…
Day 287
- Aperture: f/2.8
- ISO: 100
- Shutter Speed: 1/4000 s
- Focal Length: 2.8mm
- Camera: Hero3-Black Edition
Mountain biking down the now not so deadly Death Road! Death road was once known as the deadliest road in the world because the narrow snaking road which clings to a cliff edge is constantly subjected to landslides sending cars and busses plummeting hundreds of meters over the edge. The narrow road had accounted for…