Month: June 2013

Adding to our list of “world’s best” or “world’s biggest” we have now visited Iguazú Falls – one of the World’s biggest waterfalls. On top of that it is currently experiencing flood levels last seen more than 20 years ago! Exceptionally heavy rain upstream in Brazil has caused the flow…

Yesterday (Thursday 20th June) we made the journey from Tupiza, in southern Bolivia, to Salta, in northern Argentina. Based on the number of people we have met who have made this journey we expected it to be relatively straight forward. However, we were very much mistaken! On Wednesday we had…

We have spent the last four days on a trip to visit the Salar de Uyuni – the world’s largest salt flats at over 12000 sq km. The trip included amazing scenery, winds so strong that it was difficult to stand up, sun so strong that you burn in ten…

En route to the dinosaur footprints

Photos from Sucre and the Dinosaur Trek can either be viewed below or at http://photos.andywicks.com/SucreAndTheDinosaurTrek?noredirect=1

Sunset over Lake Titicaca

Photos from Lake Titicaca can either be viewed below or at http://photos.andywicks.com/LakeTiticaca?noredirect=1

Plaza de Armes, Arequipa

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We arrived in Copacabana on Tuesday 28th May, after catching a bus from Puno. It’s a relatively small town with only 50,000 residents at 3800m altitude – definitely the smallest town we had visited so far. We got off the bus in the main square – quite unusual, as usually…