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Getting to and from Isla del sol was a boat ride, a rather long boat ride actually. But I'm not really complaining as we found a very relaxing spot. Also on the way back we stopped in a tiny port (probably 100 houses or so) and we climbed to a res]]> http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3475 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3474 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3474 Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:06:35 GMT
The inca ruins on Isla del sol was not that impressive considering that we came from Macchu Picchu but none the less they were in a beautiful spot and it made the view that little extra bit fantastic.]]> http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3474 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3473 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3473 Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:54:53 GMT
While on Isla del sol a 360 degree sun-rainbow was around the sun. A spectacular sight by itself but on Isla del sol no less... must be an omen. You can see less than half the rainbow here and it looks small due to the very wide angle, but in real]]> http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3473 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3472 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3472 Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:33:41 GMT
Isla del sol has this rugged feel to it, but the blue sky and equally blue sea brings out the beauty in these rugged cliffs.]]> http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3472 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3471 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3471 Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:15:50 GMT
According to the legend the founding fathers of the Inca culture was born here. I don't know about that, but what I do know is that the island is like a paradise. Feels just like an island in the Mediterranean. Blue sea and beautiful hilly island.]]> http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3471 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3470 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3470 Fri, 04 Sep 2009 03:23:40 GMT
I'm guessing a lot of Bolivians don't pay for electricity, all you need to do is lean out and connect to nearest wire.]]> http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3470 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3469 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3469 Fri, 04 Sep 2009 03:08:33 GMT
There you are, romantic moment with your girlfriend and who comes along if no the third wheel :-)]]> http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3469 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3468 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3468 Fri, 04 Sep 2009 03:04:20 GMT
The sunsets in Copacabana are what dreams are made of. Completely understandable the couple went there for a romantic spot. The dog even understands it and makes sure no one bothers them.]]> http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3468 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3467 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3467 Fri, 04 Sep 2009 02:55:15 GMT
You see that shadow in the middle, thats me. How tall am I! By the way in Copacabana we found this one bar with a super nice Spanish guy with Bolivian girlfriend working in the bar. Let me tell you they had the life... They hardly earned anything]]> http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3467 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3466 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3466 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 23:20:42 GMT
In Sweden in the 80's we had a very famous toy troll that had hair exactly like these bushes. So of course my imagination was that this was thousands of Trolls with only their hair sticking up.]]> http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3466 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3465 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3465 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 23:02:35 GMT
If you can name the animal you get points! At first look everyone says, easy Llama. However it could easily be an Alpaca or since it seems to be wild, why not a Vicuna. My personal guess is Llama actually, to big for Alpaca and to fat for V]]> http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3465 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3464 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3464 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 21:02:01 GMT
Licking salt is a long standing tradition. Started the 2nd of September 2009 by Andrey ;-) In fact I don't believe he has ever been to a salt flat without licking it!]]> http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3464 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3463 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3463 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 21:01:14 GMT
What huge salt flat is complete without it's own chapel made of salt of course. Maybe you can have a salty wedding there.]]> http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3463 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3462 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3462 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 20:38:43 GMT
There are photos of people who shall remain nameless hugs a cactus but actually reaching out for one like this almost tipping over might take the price :-)]]> http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3462 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3461 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3461 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 20:25:07 GMT
I just like this image as it gives some perspective in a funny way. Of course the salt flat you see here is maybe 1 square km which is a fraction of the entire salar.]]> http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3461 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3460 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3460 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 20:20:54 GMT
This is the island in the middle of the salt flats and it was packed with cacti. I can sort of see a road runner episode taking place here :-)]]> http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3460 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3459 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3459 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 20:18:37 GMT
After sitting in the car for a long time the boys needed to get rid of some energy... Me the logical person walked 20 more meters where you didn't have to climb up :-)]]> http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3459 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3458 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3458 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:46:27 GMT
The salar is absolutely huge, we drove our car at max speed (150+km/h) and still it took us a long time to get to the "island". You can still see the mountains like 40km away (outside the salar) but other than that it's just white ground and blue ]]> http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3458 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3457 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3457 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:13:48 GMT
The salt flats are absolutely amazing. There had not been any rain recently so we didnt get this mirror effect you can find on so many images (except in the distance due to air reflections). However the salt flats were still amazing, absolutely wo]]> http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3457 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3456 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3456 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 02:20:28 GMT
The sun was going down and would soon leave us in darkness in a car with terrible lights and a road under construction. ]]> http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3456 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3455 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3455 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 01:56:22 GMT
Another one of our stops, this time to clean the windows from all the dust but taking a few photos is of course a must every time one stops :-)]]> http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3455 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3454 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3454 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 08:20:30 GMT
There were these plateaus out into the canyon and if you jumped over the cracks you were rewarded with amazing views. ]]> http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3454 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3453 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3453 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:43:27 GMT
Every once in a while we would stop and just enjoy the nature and it was incredibly varied. Deserts, canyons, mountains, salt flats. you name it :-)]]> http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3453 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3452 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3452 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 23:53:23 GMT
This is the first road work I have ever seen where they actually have a radiation sign out. And from some of the equipment we saw I think they mean it too. However I can simply not understand what radiation has to do with building a road. Btw w]]> http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3452 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3451 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3451 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:52:36 GMT
Don't be fooled by the nice tarmac here, we did manage to pretty much ride on all of Bolivias asphalt roads. But we also managed to ride plenty on dirt roads so bad you wouldn't believe it. I can however say that if you went over a 100km/h it woul]]> http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3451 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3450 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3450 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:22:51 GMT
We had some extra gas in the car but the stupid container wouldn't stop leaking slowly which caused some funky fumes in the car. This is a stop we did to tighten the lid, well Andrey did that, I took photos :-) We were all very happy when we fi]]> http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3450 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3449 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3449 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:25:18 GMT
This is typically how it would look, straight and completely deserted roads. You can also see our super crappy gps, my recomendation is that you buy a solid map instead... but at least it was nice to be able to see where we were even if navigation]]> http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3449 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3448 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3448 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:46:16 GMT
This is from about one hour in to our road trip. We realized we were hungry so we stopped to buy some food. Normally super easy without Spanish you just point at what you want and show number of fingers to indicate how many you want. Then you watc]]> http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3448 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3447 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3447 Sat, 29 Aug 2009 04:57:58 GMT
We went souvenir shopping in Cusco one day, Andrey found amongst other things a hat. Then we went and found sunglasses to match. And thus we had a party cowboy.]]> http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3447 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3446 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3446 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:28:40 GMT
A funny fact about macchu picchu is that is was built with a technique that was cutting blocks of stone so perfectly that they fit them together without any mortar. But even so you could not even fit a straw of grass in between them now thats prec]]> http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3446 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3445 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3445 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:18:39 GMT
There were a few of these flowers around and they were like spots of color in an otherwise pretty grey world.]]> http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3445 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3444 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3444 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:04:35 GMT
It does not really come trough here but the fantastic view with the mountains around were half the attraction!]]> http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3444 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3443 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3443 Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:52:04 GMT
I don't know about you but I cant tell an alpaca from a llama and in turn from a vicuna. So it's anyones bet what animal this is but it's cute to see them take care of the grass the organic way :-)]]> http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3443 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3442 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3442 Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:22:52 GMT
Here you can see some of the terraces that covered the mountain sides both as a defense and for crops.]]> http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3442 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3441 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3441 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 06:15:19 GMT
This is from that peak we climbed to. It may not look far or much below us, but let me tell you it was a hot and hard climb :-)]]> http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3441 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3440 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3440 Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:55:24 GMT
Let me tell you... it was hot. climbing to a peak didn't really make it less sweaty. So when we found these old ruins we all rushed for some shade each :-)]]> http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3440 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3439 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3439 Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:25:38 GMT
It is beatufil there is no doubt, this is that one photo that everyone takes so it must exist in literally millions of photo albums all over the world. So here is my take :-)]]> http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3439 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3438 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3438 Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:23:14 GMT
The camera people have arrived, and what can possibly be better than a selfie with Macchu Picchu in the background :-) It ended by me having to step on Andreys foot so he could lean back enough :-)]]> http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3438 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3437 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3437 Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:23:23 GMT
This is the train from Cusco to aguas calientes (Macchu picchu). Altho it was very scenic the trip took forever even tho it's not that far.]]> http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3437 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3436 http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3436 Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:47:37 GMT
You would not believe how many beatles they had in Peru, still kept running after all these years. So this picture actually represents cusco very well with the charming small streets and the typical beatle :-) Btw they were even more beatles in]]> http://www.rickardliljeberg.com/media.php?itemID=3436