Tag: Travelogue
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![A Llama in Santiago [47/50]](https://www.craigbellamy.net/images//wpid-img_7832.jpg)
A Llama in Santiago [47/50]
After many months in the Andes exploring Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Colombia, Santiago seemed a bit too much like home. A beautiful place to live but you wouldn’t want to travel there! It is a combination of American and socialist utilitarian modernism (same-same) that is almost impossible to distinguish from any other prosperous new-world city…
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![Walking Valparaiso, Chile, the graffiti capital of the world! [46/50]](https://www.craigbellamy.net/images//wpid-best-cities-to-see-street-art-20-1.jpg)
Walking Valparaiso, Chile, the graffiti capital of the world! [46/50]
I recall an interview a few years ago with a well-known architect from the suburb of Fitzroy in Melbourne, Australia on a radio station in Venice, Italy from the Australian pavilion at the Venice Biennale (Fitzroy is where I started this journey, and soon it will end at Fitz Roy Mountain in Argentina). In certain…
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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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![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…