Archive for July 2009

Tourists No Longer Welcome in Prison

Almost every tourist in Bolivia will have heard of or visited El penal de San Pedro (San Pedro prison), La Paz. For years travellers have been flocking to the prison to bribe their way onto guided tours and experience something of the unique microcosm of society that lies inside – not any more.

A courtyard in [...]

Planning Well in Advance

Most of our website visitors are planning well in advance. Photograph by: yoppy
When we started building a tour provider comparison website for the Uyuni Salt Flats we anticipated that the majority of site users would be in the same situation we were in when we visited the Salar: somewhere in South America, a few days [...]