Bolivia/Peru



A few days in Peru...Cusco & its Machu Picchu - May 2014


Plaza de Armas in Cusco...

Some of the last Incas style rocks in Cusco...


Bolivia, Peru...have more than 3,000 varieties of potatoes...

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View on Cusco from San Blas

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Our first view on Machu Picchu before Sunrise...

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Temple of the sun

The sun is little by little coming...how magical...

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Nice llama and the Machu Picchu mountain in the background that we climbed a couple of hours later...

Froggy pic...once again...

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Terraces for Agriculture purposes...

View on Huayna Picchu and the main plaza of the site...

Terraces on that side were built for agri purposes but the ones on the other side, for support purposes.

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The condor temple...

Few houses without their thatched roof...

On our way to the top of Machu Picchu mountain

...how exhausting...

...how crazy to have built this here...surrounded by big and gorgeous mountains...

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360 at the top of Machu Picchu mountain overlooking the Machu Picchu site and Huyana Picchu

La Paz, Titicaca lakes and its islands - May 2014

Traditional Bolivian ladies in Copacabana/Titicaca in Bolivia

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Copacabana cathedral with the Portuguese style tiles

View on Copacabana beachfront

Old Bolivian lady at a food festival in La Paz

Jaen street in La Paz with houses built on the hill in the background

Dancing lady at the food festival in La Paz

Bolivian lady with the traditional hat that is, when you think about it, useless...

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As you can imagine, the "Che" is everywhere here in South America...

Isla del Sol...donkeys carrying our bag on our way to the hotel...

Alpaca together with sheep overlooking Titicaca
Looks clever, hein?

Nice walk on the way down to the harbour

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Still Isla del Sol, with Agnes showing off with her new Bolivian panties...

Uros ladies...

Nelly (see our Portraits Section)

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Uros ladies kniting...

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View from Taquile island on Titicaca

In Taquile, all men must be able to knit...;-) to get married...As you can guess, they are all very keen ;-)...check out his enthusisam above...

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Rurrenabaque & its Amazonian jungle - May 2014



Our small aircraft at Rurrenabaque airport


A giant ants eater (fourmilier in French)

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A capybaras (the biggest rat in the world)


A beautiful giant bird part of the same family as  storks (cigogne)

We had some visits at the camp ;-)

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Nice small and curious monkey...

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Anaconda hunting session...

 here we go...

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Nice small toucan...

Monkeys family relaxing on trees...

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hehehe...this time we were not "broucouille"...we caught a few piranhas...mind your fingers please!

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Does look happy after being fried..and before being eaten...doesn't it?

Nice landscape from the boat...

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 Sunrise at 6.30am...

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Sunset 1

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 From camp...

...and to finish with a nice turtle...

Potosi, Sucre, Cochabamba, 3 important cities in Bolivia{s past and present - May 2014

View on Potosi at more than 4,100m high

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Baby foot....

El Cerro Ricco, the mountain that eats men alive...

La Casa de la libertad

Nice Sucre square on a Friday lunchtime

Sucre university by night

View on Sucre...

A real big dino????

  Agnes and the 12 million years old dinosaurs foot prints

Diplodocus footprint...

Kai giving me my first official haircut (so far I cut my hair myself...)...dedicace to Julien (see Flamengo football shirt)

My ex-colleague, Anthony, also doing a world trip (but for 2 years) and I overlooking Cochabamba

El Cristo de Cochambamba which is the second highest in the world...waoooouh!

 Our three days journey to Bolivia to reach the very famous Uyuni salar - April/May 2014

Bolivian border

1st camp at 4,600 m high

One of the various lagunas full of flamengos

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The classic Froggy pic in front of the Piedra tree

Agnes smoking at one of the geysers...

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The beautiful red laguna...

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Agnes, Carine, Kai and Ton...but where is Paul? The altitude (4,800m) already had an impact on him ;-(

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Agnes enjoying a hot pool...

On the road again...

 Llamas...

Another laguna

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Sunrise on a small island overlooking the Uyuni salar

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Ouie ouie ouie...

Here we go...how magical is that!




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Salt piles...

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The jeep squad from Chile to Bolivia!