Reached Bolivia

I thought a long time about going to Bolivia. Bolivia is the poorest country in South America and travelling is not as easy as in the rest of the continent. Within Bolivia there are only a few thousand kilometer of roads. Normally busses have to travel on sand/dirt roads and the speed of travelling is really slow.

After entering Peru I took a 17 hrs nightbus to Lima. I stayed there a few days and took a flight to Cusco. I stayed in Cusco a full week and visited Machu Picchu. From there I took buses via Puno Lake Titicaca to Copacabana at the Bolivian Shore of Lake Titicaca. In Bolivia I meet some travellers I already met on my travels. On the right side of the photo, you will find Barry from South Africa, whom I already met a month ago in Quito and the 2 girls in the middle are from my famous peeing room in Cusco.

Travelling in Peru was straight forward and normal, but just the first two days in Bolivia are really strange. On the Island on Lake Titicaca, some locals were blocking a little gate and were asking for a fee of abt. 1 USD to use the way. Welcome to Bolivia.

South America is really big and I had to take much more flights then planned:

21.10.2007 Caracas - Ciudad Bolivar abt 65 euros
22.10.2007 Ciudad Bolivar - Canaima Tour
24.10.2007 Canaima - Ciudad Bolivar Tour
03.10.2007 Porlamar - Caracas abt. 50 USD
03.10.2007 Caracas - Lima Round the World Ticket
04.10.2007 Lima - Quito Round the World Ticket
11.11.2007 Quito - Galapagos abt. 190 USD
22.11.2007 Galapagos - Guayaquil abt. 190 USD
29.11.2007 Lima - Cusco abt. 85 USD
22.12.2007 Santiago de Chile - Rio abt. 400 USD