In the last post we spent time with a indigenous family in Sucre just before living Bolivia…
In Copacabana, a village with plenty of tourists and travel agencies, we took a boat to Isla del Sol.
Isla del Sol, located 4000m high, in the Lake Titicaca, is a sacred island for the Incas, who believe that was where their civilization started, created by Inti, the Sun God. The legend says Inti sent his two children to Earth, to teach humankind about goodness and honesty. The sons of Inti emerged from the depths of Lake Titicaca and spent a season in…
It’s summertime in Europe.
The emigrants return to their birth places to visit families and remember the memories built while they were young.
During the year, they talk about the sun and the delicatesses from home. The expectations are high and the plans even bigger.
They arrive in big cars, packed for the whole month. The whole village sees them arriving.
The Sunday mass gets busy again after a cold silent winter.
Everybody is happy and the village recalls the good old times.
Also myself returns home.
Slightly different from those who left in the 60’s, slightly different from my…
The first memories as a child were probably going to the playground slide while my parents looked after me at the café, reading the newspaper.
Every Saturday morning, my parents used to buy the Diário de Notícias, the national newspaper in Portugal and would sit at the café for all morning. Although my father used to carry a book everywhere he went, Saturday morning meant the newspaper day. The newspaper came with a stack of magazines, including a children’s magazine. …
Just like we promised Hipólito, we visited him in Sucre.
We arranged to meet up in the Recoleta, near the street stalls with handicraft products.
Once we got there, we met his wife, Fabiana, who welcomed us nice and smiley. I offered to help in the stall while Hipólito was introducing us to all the cholitas, who found us quite funny.
Specially Mathieu, who is blond, tall, has blue eyes, and stands out in the middle of all those short and dark-haired…
After a few days exploring the city of Laz Paz, which is the most famous city in Bolivia, we hit the road towards Sucre, the white city.
Before getting to Sucre, we stopped in Cochabamba, a much calmer city than La Paz.
We rented an Airbnb for a few days, simply to rest and not do a thing! Put your backpack, put it back, tidy up your clothes, take out your clothes, rent a bedroom, change to another…
In the last post we arrived at the Uyuni Salar and I think I touched a piece of heaven…
We traveled from Salar de Uyuni to La Paz with one of our travel buddies.
We arrived at La Paz and I felt quite tired from all the traveling! I felt like stopping for a few days and doing nothing… especially after two consecutive months always surrounded by other people.
We decided to spend a few days in La Paz, in resting mode!
La Paz is located on a vale, surrounded by mountains, at a height of 3700 meters. The city…
We continued our trip through the desert of Atacama to visit the Árbol de Piedra. The Árbol de Piedra is a natural rock formation that stands out from the other formations due to its tree-like shape. The Árbol de Piedra arises, solitary, in the middle of the desert, with its unique aesthetic beauty.
When we stopped the car and…
In the previous post we had an unforgettable arrival at the Atacama Desert…
The desert of Atacama is the oldest in the world, being 150 million years old. This desert, which is also one of the driest in the world, covers a distance of 1000 Km between two important mountain stretches: La Costa and Andes.
The precipitation here is inferior to 1mm per year, which makes it hard for the different ecosystems to survive. However, it is possible to find red scorpions, foxes, desert wasps, and butterflies.
There is a lot to see in the Desert of Atacama and even…
We left Argentina behind!
We said goodbye to Pierre in Salta to continue with our travels separately. Pierre followed directly to Peru, but we still wanted to visit the famous Atacama desert.
There was a bus riding directly from Salta, Argentina, to the Desert of Atacama, in Chile. The trip lasted for 10 hours, so we decided to do it during the night. …
At the moment, I am in France for a couple of weeks to visit family. Although I am so close to The Netherlands (home), there is still a slight piece of culture adjustment.
Cheese for desert, a city inside of the metro station, a bottle of water and bread always on the table of every restaurant, tones of people on the street, say merci and bonjour every other sentence…
Yesterday, I met a friend who is living in Paris but naturally from Hong Kong. She told me about the China history, tips to learn mandarin, a tone of Chinese dishes…
Patricia Assis
I am traveler, wanderer, believer who have a deep connection with the inner world.
