by Sarah Jervis | Nov 30, 2025 | Our Journey, South America
15 – 19th November The road from Santa Cruz to Samaipata winds steadily up into the cool, green foothills of the Andes, trading the heat of the lowlands for misty curves, dense cloud forest, and sudden viewpoints that made us pull over just to breathe it all in....
by Sarah Jervis | Nov 27, 2025 | Our Journey, South America
Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia’s largest and most modern city, sits low in the tropical plains of the eastern lowlands—a world apart from the chilly Andean altiplano most travellers picture when they think of Bolivia. Founded by the Spanish in 1561 and later...
by Sarah Jervis | Nov 25, 2025 | Our Journey, South America
5th November. Corumbá, I’m sure, is a lovely town—of the little we saw. Leaving the river around 4 p.m., we made our way to a laundromat and then to a truck stop for the night, marked on iOverlander as a good spot before crossing into Bolivia. Before leaving Brazil,...
by Sarah Jervis | Nov 16, 2025 | Our Journey, South America
The Cuiabá & Paraguay river is the next leg of our journey. Short and sweet. We’ll board a cattle barge & slowly motor downstream from Porto Jofre to Corumbá. A 40 hour cruise over 100+ km of snaking, water that will slowly take us back to civilization....
by Sarah Jervis | Nov 13, 2025 | Our Journey, South America
29 & 30 October. On the heels of yesterday’s high on the river, today was meant to be a quiet one — time to re-organize, do a bit of schoolwork, and catch up on admin. I don’t think I mentioned my little Apple fumble? A couple of months back when I ordered an...
