Each month we're featuring one of the top South America blogs. This month we've chosen the duo from For 91 days who write about their experiences living in different cities around the world.
Tell us a little about yourself
We're two guys in our mid-thirties, who love travel and have recently decided to take full advantage of the independence we enjoy as freelancers.
With day jobs in IT and photography, we can work from anywhere, as long as we have an Internet connection. So, every three months, we pack up and head to a new city, sharing our experiences on the blog For91days. Mike Powell, from the USA, does the writing while Jürgen Horn, from Germany, takes care of the pictures.
And what is For 91 Days all about?
This project started a year ago, which means we've had enough time to visit four different places: Asturias, Savannah, Georgia; Buenos Aires; and lastly, Bolivia.
Usually, we rent an apartment for the three-month duration of our stay, which allows us to settle down a bit and provides the sense of having a "home". But in Bolivia, we decided to jump around the country, never spending more than a few weeks in one place.
By the end of our stay, we were exhausted, but had collected a wealth of memories which will last a lifetime. Hikes through the Andes, scrapes with quicksand in the jungle, visits to amazing cities such as Potosí, Sucre and La Paz, strange fruits and foods, bizarre landscapes and colorful festivals. For 91 days, we really experienced Bolivia.
By spending such a long time in each place, we're able to encounter some of the things you won't find in guidebooks. One of those things was the rickety hybrid bus-train which takes you from Sucre to Potosí over the course of seven hours. We were the only foreigners on the thing (and one of very few not carrying a chicken!) The trail is long, with breathtaking panoramas as you climb through the Andes to the world's most-elevated city. A couple times, as our ancient, ramshackle bus/train cruised through a sharp mountain curve, I looked out the window onto the valleys below, and found myself nauseous.
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The bus/train was just one of our many strange experiences in Bolivia, one of the most wild, gorgeous, underpopulated and misunderstood countries in the world. If you have a chance to visit, don't pass it up.
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Want to know more about Bolivia?
Getting to Bolivia
La Paz, Bolivia
Plan Your Trip to Bolivia
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