Wow...it's been a really really long time since i;ve done this. Part of that is due to being in the middle of absolute nowhere and a somewhat smaller part is becuase of laziness, writing's not really my thing.
Anyways i have been to and seen a lot of places since I last wrote, way too many to go into detail about although I wish I could for the sake of my future memories. But in case anyone hasn't noticed I finally found fast internet and was able to upload lots of pictures so here are the links for Argentina, Chile, and Bolivia...Big disappointment though, in that part way through Bolivia I was checking my camera settings and discovered I had had it on the lowest quality for pretty much the entire trip, must have accidentally changed it to that when I was playing with the settings after I bought it. Oh well.
I think the last time I wrote we were in Mendoza, Argentina for the second time waiting to cross over to Chile. The ride itself to Chile was amazing because we went through the high Andes and saw some beautiful countryside. Chile itself however was just alright though. Santiago was fun, but it was just another really really big city with nothing overly special about it except for the snowcapped Andes backdrop...Buenos Aires was way better. After Santiago we started making our way to Bolivia. Stayed a night in La Serena which also wasn't that great and then ended up in San Pedro. I think we were in Chile for maybe a week, and it felt like forever. San Pedro was neat though. Its a small town in the middle of the Atacama desert, which is the driest desert in the world. The town was fun and the scenery was defintely something else, almost nothing grew there but it was strangely beautiful in its own way. Logan talked me into going sandboarding which was just alright, but the scenery on the tour made it worth it.
After San Pedro we went to Bolivia...Yay. We took a 3 day tour from San Pedro through the Andes and Bolivian salt flats to the Bolivian border town of Unuyi. The tour was amazing! I saw some of the craziest and most beautiful things I have ever seen, stuff that made me just stop and admire the beauty of God's creation. I would with out a doubt recommend the tour to anyone. The salts flats themselves were absolutely crazy. The ground was pure salt, who knows how deep, for as far as the eye could see...check out the pictures, they will show it better than I can describe it.
After Unuyi it was off the Potosi with our new German friends who happened to be on the same tour as us. Happened to arrive in the Potosi the day of their 200th anniversay of their revolution, or something like that. Literally the people of the city paraded from when we got there at 4 (but we think they started at 1 or 2) until 11 at night, and when they parade its not full of floats and stuff like our parades but people just walking and walking and walking. People and food everywhere and the president of Bolivia was there as well.
From Potosi we were off to Cochabamba to volunteer with some missionaries. Were still in Cochabamba helping out. I'll update about that later and write about our difficulties leaving Potosi.
