Well the altitude was a rude shock last night. It wasn’t bad, just mild headache, difficulty sleeping, I just didn’t think it would hit given I’ve been at various altitudes recently. But then again it’s been a few weeks. Fortunately it’s all cleared up and I’m all good now.
Tomorrow we head out to Uyuni and the salt flats. We’ve been warned no wifi, so it might be 4 or 5 days until my next update.
Today I head to La Paz in Bolivia, whereabouts I join another tour group and explore only a few of the many highlights Bolivia has to offer. I have also made some new plans…
Another vacation in my vacation, currently laying over in Panama on my way to Barbados for a long weekend with a friend from the US.
After that I get back to serious travelling with my Bolivia section. First up a tour of the highlights around La Paz, then the mountain climb. That should be "fun".
Santiago is a beautiful city, being surrounded by the Andes is incredible, and you frequently look up and remind yourself of the beauty.
While it’s still many months until I head off to Africa, I’ve promised to share my travel blog with all of you. I’ll share it again to the various WhatsApp groups that still exist in October, but I thought I should share it now too.
I post here every few days letting my family and friends (of whom you all now are!) know where I am.
Come late October I’ll be posting periodically — I’ve been told we get wifi about once a week — and sharing what I’m able to, I imagine I won’t have fibre optic high speed connections to upload IMAX 4K video 🤣
In the meantime feel free to read how I’m going, or read back my entries for when I was with you (and read all the salacious rumours I spread!).
My contact details are the WhatsApp number you all have for me, as well as:
We arrived in Rio in the late afternoon and had a brief walking tour before dinner. I’ve only really seen Rio from the air on the flight in, but what stuck out the most was how huge it was. Medium density housing as far as the eye could see. Tomorrow we go to the top to visit Christ the Redeemer, and I look forward to getting a better view of the city.