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The magical Salar de Uyuni

20 Apr 2013 2 Comments

by Mo in Adventure, Family Gap Year, Health & Fitness, Photos, Top Experiences Tags: Bolivia, Colchani, gap year with children, Hotel Luna Salada, Salar de Uyuni, salt flats, Salt Palace, Uyuni

Everything you read about the Uyuni Salt Flats in the high Altiplano of Bolivia makes you desperate to see it but a little fearful that it maybe can’t live up to its reputation.

We’d hoped for a three day trip which would take us across the salt flats into Chile but tour companies weren’t running them due to the rains. The one day trip is said by some to make for a very second rate experience to the three day expedition!

The kids on the jeep – Salar de Uyuni

Zoe wakes in our Salt hotel feeling really breathless and has some oxygen More

Machu Picchu and Sacred Valley Adventure

07 Mar 2013 2 Comments

by Mo in Adventure, Family Gap Year, Top Experiences Tags: Aguas Calientes, Chinchero, Cusco, gap year with children, Las Salineras, Machu Picchu, Moras, Moray, Olantaytambo, Peru, Pisac, saqsayhuaman, saqsaywaman, Tipon

Machu Picchu was always a planned highlight of our round the world family gap year – although Martin suggested at one point we skip it and come back when the kids are bigger? No way! – OK so it’s crowded, but you have to go!

New Year’s 2012 Machu Picchu

Probably the first highlight that comes to most people’s minds when they think of visiting South America. It was certainly on my long term bucket list along with the Galapagos islands. But we didn’t have much planned in advance, we hadn’t even heard of the Sacred Valley More