Flying from La Paz to Cobija in the northwestern corner of the Bolivian Amazon. This view is still very close to the airport of La Paz. I'm getting a bit sick of all the flying by the way.
Saturday, July 15, 2006
Day 113, Tuesday 27-06-06
Flying from La Paz to Cobija in the northwestern corner of the Bolivian Amazon. This view is still very close to the airport of La Paz. I'm getting a bit sick of all the flying by the way.
Thursday, July 06, 2006
Day 112 26-06-06
Back in La Paz, these women are walking along the fringe of the city at an altitude of 4000m.Day 111 25-06-06
The former home of, current president of Bolivia, Evo Morales in the central coca region in his country. In the right front corner the leaves of a coca bush.
day 110 24-06-06
Employee of the central coca market of Sinahota in the central coca region. He sure knows how to enjoy his own product. He doesn't need it to counter the effects of altitude sickness for this town is located in the tropical lowlands of eastern Bolivia at an altitude of 300m.Day 109 23-06-06
A blind girl running along a line to guide her across a sportsfield. She joined a sportsprogramme for disabled children in Cochabamba, the second city of Bolivia.
Day 108 22-06-06
Luckily, most roads in Bolivia are so bad that they don't have a lot of problems with speeding taxis. You can't really blame the drivers if they can't read their speedometers! Many taxis in this country are imported second hand from Japan where they drive on the other side of the road.
Day 107 21-06-06
Also at 4000m. altitude, in Oruro in Central Bolivia, the Mundial Soccer raises the temperatures. This woman and her son sell the stickers of soccrplayers that are a popualar collector's item all over the world.
Dia 106 20-06-06
Dried lama foetuses on a market in La Paz. These form an essential part in all kinds of rituals in Bolivian culture. For instance, you can't build a house without burying some beneath the foundations.
Day 105 19-06-06
Areal view of the Altiplano in southern Peru, just before we touched down in Juliaca, near Lake Titicaca. The high plains are at an altitude of app. 3600 m. so we had some adjusting to do. The amount of oxygen was defenitely low. We continued to La Paz in Bolivia today.Day 104 18-06-06
My first impression of Peru. The view from my dingy, but expensive hotelroom near the airport in Lima. Just got here and tomorrow we're flying to the south of the country.
day 101 15-06-06
HiTech Colombia! Internet banking is not yet widely accepted in Colombia, but they've been having DriveThru Banking for years!. Just pay your bills from behind the wheel! A concept totally unknown in Holland!
Day 100 14-06-06
And on the 100th day my harddisk was full! I still have 3 weeks of travelling to do, so I've got a lot of deleting to do.
Day 99 13-06-06
This time I didn't forget to take a picture when flying to Medellin. This, by the way, is a typical areal view of Colombia. Green, green, green. I love this country!
Day 98 12-06-06
The large barrequeros mine in Choco is open for individual miners once every few weeks. They can come and scavenge for the leftovers. (Which can be very profitable).
Day 97 11-06-06
Goldminer Ameriko and buyer Alfredo are enjoying the sight of an exeptionally good find. Ameriko who represents a small group of miners received more than US$ 3000 for this lot.
Wednesday, July 05, 2006
Day 96 10-06-06
In a little cargoplane we flew from Medellin to Choco, the hot tropical coastal province of Colombia for a story on goldminers. In the back you see the big (closed) ramp that we used to enter the plane. 
Goldmining in Choco is a familybusiness. Whole families work together on small personal lots in the jungle. Here Maria Cilse is loosening soil that Alejandro filters for gold.
Day 93 07-06-06
Another boring day at the office. So due to lack of inspiration another view from the balcony. This is the Avila, the big mountain that seperates Caracas from the Carribean sea.day 92 06-06-06
This lovely couple is commercially exploiting the daily trafficjams that block the Caracas - Airport road since one of the bridges collapsed.
Day 91 05-06-06
A bum inhaling plastic fumes. I don't think he's bothered by the political grafittis that are already spoiling Nicaragua's roadsides eventhough the elections won't be held untill the end of the year.Friday, June 16, 2006
Day 90 04-06-06
'El Castillo del Cacao', the Matagalpa chocolate factory of a Dutch entrepreneur in Nicaragua. One of his sons is playing in the garden.
Day 89 03-06-06
After finishing the day's batch of chocolate, the employees of the chocolate factory in Matagalpa get to taste one of the new products, a finer refined type of chocolate.
Day 88 02-06-06
I'm here for a story on chocolate, so we drove to the cacao region in the 'wild east' of the country. We had to stop here at the shop of the cousin of our host, the cacao farmer. He mixed us a curious drink of locally brewn liquor, lime juice and cinamon. Tasted surprisingly good!
Day 87 01-06-06
We stopped for lunch in a small restaurant not far from Leon in the north of Nicaragua when I noticed this framed poster of New York. Is that art?
Day 86 31-05-06
Daniel Ortega is running for president again in Nicaragua. The elections will be at the end of the year, but the country is already covered in political grafitti and posters.Day 85 30-05-06
Travelday, flew to Nicaragua today, so the only image I got is of my kitsch hotel bathroom.
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