Tortuga Travels Articles
Tortuga Travels: Week Six: Uyuni to La Paz, BoliviaJenn takes a tour of the Uyuni Salar, Bolivia’s “outback”, before meeting up with Carrie again for the train and bus ride to La Paz.
Tortuga Travels: Week Seven: La Fin, BoliviaAfter a (relatively) quick trip to Lake Titicaca, Jenn reflects on her time in Bolivia: it doesn’t make sense, it takes longer than it needs to, but everyone is friendly and it all turns out okay.
Tortuga Travels: Week Four: Sucre, BoliviaSunday mornings in Bolivia mean mass and markets. Jenn and Carrie head to Tarabuco, where they prefer to worship the almighty dollar.
Tortuga Travels: Week Five: Potosi, BoliviaPotosi is the antithesis of Sucre. The major attraction is the old silver mine, Cerro Rico, where Bolivians still work in very dangerous conditions for pitiful wages.
Tortuga Travels: Week Three: Sucre, BoliviaJenn and Carrie have found a good rhythm in Sucre: A leisurely breakfast, practicing guitar, drawing, Spanish lessons and watching tourists who seem to have lost their sense of volume and personal spa
Tortuga Travels: Week One: La Paz to Sucre, BoliviaLa Paz is a city of beauty, a city of activity, but most of all a city of karaoke bars and photocopierias. If you think that’s weird, try catching a bus.
Tortuga Travels: Week Two: Sucre, BoliviaJenn finds her Spanish lacking trying to explain Halloween. She also discovers the joys of Bolivian line dancing.
