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Photos from South America trip to Chile, Bolivia, and Peru
Here is the "BEST OF" gallery from the entire trip
http://www.loscocco.net/images/200610sagallery
Here is my website with a lot of my pther photography as well
http://www.erin.loscocco.net
I am back from my month long trek up the western coast of South America and into the Andes mountains.
I started out in Santiago, Chile where I stayed with my friend Holly from California who is studying there at the University of Chile.
After about 9 days in the Santiago area I spent the next week or so taking buses northward up the coast of Chile.
Every day I would pick out a new town on the map and take a bus there and explore it.
Then I left the coast and headed up to La Paz Bolivia which is one of the highest cities in the world at about 13,000 feet above sea level.
Hiking in the mountains around Lake Titicaca at 14,000+ feet is literally breathtaking!
The air is so thin that taking a few steps and you are out of breath.
The lake is so large and beautiful its hard to believe that its at the top of one of the highest mountain ranges in the world but looks like a
tropical or Mediterranean sea.
Then I traveled by train into Peru where I stayed in Cuzco and visited Macchu Picchu, the famous Lost City of the Incas. It is an incredible
place built on steep cliffs in cloud forest covered mountains. From there I flew to Lima Peru where I had a 6 hour layover in which
I saw more of the city, beach and surrounding area than I could have ever imagined thanks to an excellent taxi driver/ private tour guide whom I randomly met!
The entire trip I just winged it and took it day by day and met soo many people.
I met lots of locals as well as other travelers doing similar travels as myself and some traveling for months or years thru dozens of countries around the world..
Every evening I would find myself at a dinner table or having drinks with a different group of people that I had met that day.
The conversations were great and involved sometimes up to 4 or 5 languages at once! LOL
Traveling there is VERY cheap!, My hotel in La Paz Bolivia was $1.25, an 8 hour bus ride for $6-10, 2 hour taxi cab $4! Coming back to California was very tough..lol
It was definitely one of the most incredible experiences of my life and I look forward to returning there again soon but I have many more places to visit in the world first
I took LOTS of pictures and everyone has been asking every day about them so here they are.
There are over 1000 of them and many more crazy stories for each picture.
Enjoy the pics
Erin
Here is the "BEST OF" gallery from the entire trip
http://www.loscocco.net/images/200610sagallery
Here is my website with a lot of my pther photography as well
http://www.erin.loscocco.net
I am back from my month long trek up the western coast of South America and into the Andes mountains.
I started out in Santiago, Chile where I stayed with my friend Holly from California who is studying there at the University of Chile.
After about 9 days in the Santiago area I spent the next week or so taking buses northward up the coast of Chile.
Every day I would pick out a new town on the map and take a bus there and explore it.
Then I left the coast and headed up to La Paz Bolivia which is one of the highest cities in the world at about 13,000 feet above sea level.
Hiking in the mountains around Lake Titicaca at 14,000+ feet is literally breathtaking!
The air is so thin that taking a few steps and you are out of breath.
The lake is so large and beautiful its hard to believe that its at the top of one of the highest mountain ranges in the world but looks like a
tropical or Mediterranean sea.
Then I traveled by train into Peru where I stayed in Cuzco and visited Macchu Picchu, the famous Lost City of the Incas. It is an incredible
place built on steep cliffs in cloud forest covered mountains. From there I flew to Lima Peru where I had a 6 hour layover in which
I saw more of the city, beach and surrounding area than I could have ever imagined thanks to an excellent taxi driver/ private tour guide whom I randomly met!
The entire trip I just winged it and took it day by day and met soo many people.
I met lots of locals as well as other travelers doing similar travels as myself and some traveling for months or years thru dozens of countries around the world..
Every evening I would find myself at a dinner table or having drinks with a different group of people that I had met that day.
The conversations were great and involved sometimes up to 4 or 5 languages at once! LOL
Traveling there is VERY cheap!, My hotel in La Paz Bolivia was $1.25, an 8 hour bus ride for $6-10, 2 hour taxi cab $4! Coming back to California was very tough..lol
It was definitely one of the most incredible experiences of my life and I look forward to returning there again soon but I have many more places to visit in the world first
I took LOTS of pictures and everyone has been asking every day about them so here they are.
There are over 1000 of them and many more crazy stories for each picture.
Enjoy the pics
Erin