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Archive : Bolivia

Ultratravel

Emptiness: the new luxury
Winter 2012
Suspecting a flat tyre, I pulled over just before the town of Palmwag. As I got out and walked around the vehicle, the puncture hissed at me like a snake. As I extracted the jack and wheel brace from the boot, it began to rain -- in one of the world’s driest countries. Swiftly, the drizzle swelled to a full-on thunderstorm, yet I smiled to myself like a small child playing outdoors. [...]

CNN

Heart of Silver
May / June 2006
Bolivia is a land of unlikely heroes and its new president, the former coca grower and llama farmer Evo Morales, may prove to be no exception to the rule. This is a country where legends are made. [...]

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