Category: travel
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![The Chilean Atacama Desert, let a hundred flowers blossom [45/50]](https://www.craigbellamy.net/images//wpid-img_6963.jpg)
The Chilean Atacama Desert, let a hundred flowers blossom [45/50]
The trip from Uyuni in Bolivia to San Pedro de Atacama in Chile was one of the more adventurous segments of the whole journey as the road was rough and unpaved, through remote Andean towns, past smoking volcanoes and over desolate, barren and lonely landscapes. This would be the last ride on the moto as…
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![The Bolivian South West, no country for young men [44/50]](https://www.craigbellamy.net/images//wpid-img_6906.jpg)
The Bolivian South West, no country for young men [44/50]
The Bolivian South West is a expansive and rugged, resilient and optimistic synthesis of unique topologies, an amalgam of past eruptions and new dirt, of accumulated wisdom with new landscapes with few circumscribed references to the stuff of industrial Modernity. It is no country for young men (only Arthur Miller). After returning from the Uyuni…
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![Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia, Diesel, Dust and Salt [43/50]](https://www.craigbellamy.net/images//wpid-img_6199.jpg)
Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia, Diesel, Dust and Salt [43/50]
The ride from Potosi to Salar de Uyuni was supposed to be a short one, except somehow I drove around the Potosi mine in the wrong direction towards cowboy-land Tupiza, and it took seventy broke-back kilometers to figure this out (road-signs are rarer in Bolivia than right directions). As the road was paved, it didn’t…
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![Potosi, city of tarnished silver [42/50]](https://www.craigbellamy.net/images//wpid-img_6088.jpg)
Potosi, city of tarnished silver [42/50]
It was an easy 200 Km ride from Sucre (the capital of Bolivia) to Potosi along a lively, brisk paved road. Although there are 42,000 Kms of roads in Bolivia, only 2000 kms of them are paved. Plus petrol stations are few and far between and when you finally find one, there is no guarantee…
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![Sucre, Capital de Bolivia [41/50]](https://www.craigbellamy.net/images//wpid-img_5807.jpg)
Sucre, Capital de Bolivia [41/50]
The ride from La Paz to Sucre was too far to do in one day, so I rested in the desolate mining town of Oruru on the way. This ended up being a wise decision as it took forever to get out of car-chocked La Paz. La Paz is located in a broad, deep valley…
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![La Paz, not a city of angels [40/50]](https://www.craigbellamy.net/images//wpid-fb_img_1446161138471.jpg)
La Paz, not a city of angels [40/50]
The ride from Copacabana to La Paz was a short, pleasant one, passing crystalline lakes and broad vistas of snow-capped Andean mountains (and not to forget the herds of wild, fluffy Llamas). In the late morning, making good progress, I rode into a small, relaxed lakeside town, but unfortunately, the road had vanished. I have…