onsdag 24. november 2010

Verden i bilder

Copacabana and lake Titikaka:

A different type of "boat", transferring both the bus and the people safely (?) over parts of the Titikaka lake, around 3800 m.s.l.










You can never get enough of sunsets in South-America

Cusco:

Plaza de Armas - main square









 






Me, Paulo from Italy and Friedrich from Germany


Three sweet girls from Australia, together with us for the Machu Picchu




Getting a bit too exited along the way maybe, but Machu Picchu was closing in at this time














Llamas in Machu Picchu. This was too good to be true!




fredag 19. november 2010

Leaving the monkeys and Vila Tunari


The road has been long. But so far, traveling has been what everybody sais: "Traveling alone - you´re never alone"

Here are some pictures from the last weeks with a few descriptions.


Vila Tunari ---> Cochabamba:


Together with Michelle from New Zealand, a very nice girl I met in Vila Tunari, we couchsurfed in Cochabamba at Gabriela´s place. Gabriela is from Bolivia and lives together with her whole family - mother, grandmother, aunts and oncles. They are all such warm people and made us feel very welcome.




 One of the days we were there, the university in the city had a big parade in the city. Music, dance and crazy costumes everywhere!












I didn´t know before I got here that Cochabamba actually has the tallest Jesus statue in the world - "Cristo de la Concordia" - beating "Christ the Redeemer" in Rio de Janeiro with a few centimeters. All though it´s not as detailed as the one in Brasil, it made a nice mark on the hill by city.



Preparing a huge cake for Gabrielas grandmothers 75th birthday! We got to be a part of the preparations and the bolivian fiesta!





Cochabamba ---> La Paz:





La Paz ---> Rurrenabaque:

To give you a hint of how small Rurrenabaque is, here is a picture of the airplane that took us there.




 After a 40 minutes flight, we arrived in Rurrenabaque airport (see picture, although it looked more like a farm-area).


Many travelers go to Rurrenabaque to do one of the jungle-tours in Amazonas. Here a the great group of nine, doing the "Pampas-tour".



Endless long rivers going into "nowhere" in the Amazonas


Quite relaxing yes..










Piraña-fishing, using raw chicken as bait




The embaressing part was that the guide was the only one who caught a piraña. The rest of us caught a sardin, a catfich and a crab.



Anaconda-hunting