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Potosi Silver Mine Visit Potosi is a dusty struggling town, now its silver mine a tourist attraction. Tom was keen to visit the mine as he began his career as a mineral exploration geologist which involved many trips down mines. He was told that the mine tour would be conducted by ex miners and...

Galapagos Islands and more We are currently in Uyuni a dusty town close to the world's largest salt flats. It is also the home to a train cemetery, locomotives abandoned when the mining collapsed. We are heading off tomorrow to explore the salt flats Salar de Uyuni and will be returning to...

You got that right the Potosi are a medieval job from hell but S African mines are a high tech hell, it was bad and I dont suspect much better 40 years on.

Thanks for the comment Diplostrat. Yes Tom really wants to see the mines in Potosi as he worked in the South African gold mines and they were pretty grim 40 years ago so he is keen to see the difference in the conditions and of course being a geologist he just wants to see the mining as well...

Bolivia Jungle Adventures and Misadventures We wanted to visit the Bolivian jungle but needed to fly to Rurrenabaque as there are protests and road blocks leading out of La Paz, so did not want to be prevented from passing the road blocks. Our trip became a series of adventures and...

Great write ups and pictures. Good luck with all your travels, you are going to have such a blast. And it is great to see other Canadians on overland travels. Safe travels always Janet and Tom (Calgary)

Bolivia and Cholitas Wrestling We arrived in La Paz Bolivia and like every overlander passing through La Paz are camping at Oberland Hotel. There are several trucks here including 3 trucks with pop up campers. Made an appointment to have our truck serviced by Ernesto who also services every...

What is a Dangerous Road? All the roads from Cuzco leading to the jungle of Peru are “muddy, slow and dangerous,” and anyone planning to drive them should “think twice before deciding to travel overland” is the advice given in the Lonely Planet. We headed off aware of the warning and the...

Machu Picchu and the Sacred Valley WOW Visiting Machu Picchu and the Sacred Valley on an overlanders budget calls for some smart ‘know how” There is so much advise on how to visit Machu Picchu that we felt overwhelmed with information, In the end we decided that trying to arrange everything and...

Thanks for your comments, did not know that the tower was there in 1974 I thought it looked a little rusty. Nice to hear that your dog was taken care of. Of all the things I miss most about traveling is not having a dog!

We Climb the Andes and Reach Cuzco Paracas National Reserve, a great wilderness protection area was stunning. As we drove across the desolate and barren, landscape of shifting sands and coloured exposed rocks we felt a surge of wonder at nature and wildlife. It is has one of the highest...

Colombia Video Our journey from Lima across the desert and then inland across the Andes was spectacular. We arrived in Cuzco this evening and are camped with several overlanders. We have posted our video of our journey across Colombia a country with some of the most friendly people we have...

Thanks for the comments and pleased you enjoy our photos and videos. Excellent news the air bags are being installed as I write so we will be leaving Lima within a few hours. Had a great time in Lima but time to get back on the road. Nasca Lines here we come!

Great to see you back the road hope to meet up with you again somewhere once we get moving again, still in Lima. Great photos Safe travels

Still Waiting in Lima We are still waiting in Lima for the parts to arrive so we can replace the air ride bags on our Nissan. We have found ourselves exploring a city that we actually had no plans of even stopping in, but to our delight is actually is a fascinating city. And if ever you need a...

Highlights of Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama We are enjoying Lima it is an exciting city and are somewhat pleased we got to see the city we were planning on avoiding! That is what we love about overlanding, you plan a route and think you choose the road but really the road chooses you! It...

4X4 Service in Lima Peru We arrived in Lima and wow were met by the most chaotic traffic we have encountered in a long time. Both decided driving in Lima is worse than driving in Cairo!! We took our truck to a 4X4 service company called Fire Wheels and they hoisted the Nissan up and all...

Thanks but we have decided to drive to Lima tomorrow and find a mechanic who can assist us. Oh the joys of international travel! Lima is a city of over 8 million and we had not intended to travel through Lima so it should be interesting navigating through this city! While Tom was busy with the...

Suspension Issues We had not even planned to spend a day in Huaraz and here we are into our 3rd night. That is the joy of overlanding, always the unexpected and meeting great people Mechanics! So after some more checking it seems both our Firestone air ride bags have had their ride and day in...

POOF and THERE GOES OUR AIR RIDE HOSE You all know it, drive fast you break fast, drive slow, you break slow. So we arrived after some bumpy roads and when Tom was checking the truck he noticed the airbags had shifted. Fortunately we found a mechanic Huaraz and they managed to identify the...