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Travel Articles > May,06 2010
Uyuni Salt Flats and a trip to the Moon!
Anyone who decides to visit the deserts of southern Bolivia gets the added bonus of visiting the Moon, Mars, and probably Uranus. Because this is not Earth. Earth does not have dry deserts of salt,...... [Read +]

Travel Articles > May,06 2010
Return to the Death Road
A fool might bike the world's most dangerous road once - a snake-coiling jungle track where an average of 150 lose their lives every year - but I'm the clown prince of travel, so I'm doing it twice...... [Read +]

Travel Articles > May,06 2010
Island of the Sun
Two and half years later, I retrace my footsteps on the Island of the Sun. Not much has changed. The same little girl is playing on the sacred rock by the Sun Temple. The same man is rowing tourist...... [Read +]

Travel Articles > April,24 2010
Unchanging La Paz
In La Paz, the air remains choked with diesel fumes and speckled noise. Former eastern-bloc countries have rapidly industrialized in Europe; India and China have become economic powerhouses, and th...... [Read +]

Travel Articles > Peru Article | March,31 2010
Puno, Lake Titicaca, and the Bolivian Copacabana
Robin Esrock writes about his travels from Cuzco to Puno and then onto Copacabana in Bolivia. Read his candid account of travel in, around Lake Titicaca and from the Peru and Bolivia territory... [Read +]