https://calderescapes.com The Calder's Global Travels Sat, 18 Feb 2023 01:07:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://calderescapes.com/wpcms/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/cropped-ce-site-icon-32x32.png https://calderescapes.com 32 32 https://calderescapes.com/posts/we-bounced-back-to-bolivia-bol/ Sun, 21 Jul 2019 19:21:49 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=32321   July 21, 2019 We have returned to Bolivia for two reasons:  (1) we did not venture into eastern Bolivia last year when we were here and (2) we want to visit the Pantanal in Brazil and winter is the best time to go as water is scarce making the wildlife more visible. This region […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/making-it-to-potosi-sw-bolivia/ Fri, 14 Sep 2018 17:32:01 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=28001   (the above map is slightly wrong; we were able to drive from D to E and not back track to C but Google Maps doesn’t think we can as there are no “roads” per se on the Salar!) September 14th, 2018 Finally, we felt we could leave Sucre; as much as we loved this […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/vallegrande-to-sucre-bol/ Sat, 11 Aug 2018 14:16:11 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=27690   (on this map ignore that big dip south; for some reason, Google does not have the road between Tomina and Zudanez! which is what we drove) NOTE:  This is one loooong @ss post, so grab a coffee or a beer, settle in and we hope you don’t get bored! 🙂  August 11th To get […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/incallajta-to-samaipata-bol/ Tue, 07 Aug 2018 14:21:02 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=27652   August 7th This morning we all (we are still travelling with Christine and Mark) made a push for “Bolivia’s Machu Picchu” called Incallajta .  It was mostly paved road once we turned off the Torotoro road and passed through the city of  Cliza and the going was pretty good.  We drove quite high in […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/cochabamba-to-torotoro-bol/ Wed, 25 Jul 2018 13:24:07 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=27582   July 25th We awoke Wednesday to some early morning cloud that burned off quickly and Doug, although not feeling 100%, felt he was up to beginning our drive to Cochabamba.  After showering, paying our bill and shutting down Tigger, we hit the road around 8am.  We had nearly 400km/250m to drive and although it […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/weve-arrived-in-bolivia/ Sat, 14 Jul 2018 17:14:11 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=27402   July 14th Fifteen minutes after crossing our fastest border ever, we were in Copacabana and chatting with Mark and Christine in their rig catching up.  We are boondocking with them right on the shores of Lake Titicaca.  This lake is the largest in South America and the highest navigable lake in the world at […]]]>