Crossing Rivers in the Rainforest

On July 4, 2017 By Isobar ExpeditionsIn Photo Challenge, South America3 Comments

Since there are not a lot of roads in the jungles of South America, local residents get creative on ways to cross the many rivers. Especially during the rainy season, these rivers can be quite treacherous, so the last thing that anyone would want to do is take a boat to try and cross them. Instead, cables are suspended across the rivers and then a metal cage is used to transport people and supplies from one side to the other. Since the cage can only be on one side or the other, when it isn’t on the same side as the travelers, someone must pull themselves across the cable to reach the other side and then pull the cage back over. It really was as thrilling as it looks. We decided to share these photos for this week’s Cee’s Which Way Photo Challenge.

In the Thick of It

On April 4, 2017 By Isobar ExpeditionsIn Photo Challenge, South America11 Comments

We have started to contemplate our first adventure since arriving back in the States from Europe. One thing that we agreed upon when we were abroad was that we would focus on Central and South America after we returned home. With that in mind, the one place that keeps coming up in our conversations is Ecuador. We haven’t completely decided if that is where we will go next, but if it isn’t Ecuador, it will likely be someplace similar. It is hard to believe that is has almost been a year since our trip to Bolivia last May. This week’s Daily Post Photo Challenge is Dense, so we thought that we would share a few photos of the dense rainforest where we went hiking.

On the Road to Nowhere

On December 1, 2016 By Isobar ExpeditionsIn Photo Challenge, South America4 Comments

Perhaps we just needed to think about someplace warm as the days here in Frankfurt have gotten fairly cold, or maybe just for a change of pace from castles and Christmas markets, we decided to take a journey back to Bolivia for Cee’s Which Way Photo Challenge this week. There are times when traveling that you get driven around instead of driving yourself and Bolivia and India both stand out in our minds when it comes to that as we had no desire to drive in either location. This week we decided to share some images that were taken from the back of the van that our guides drove as we traversed the jungles and mountains of Bolivia. We chose photos that were taken through the driver’s window so that you could get a sense of the roads that we were traveling. Some of them were quite harrowing. All of these were from our trip to Carrasco National Park. Obviously we had done Death Road while were in Bolivia, but this should give you an idea of what the “normal” roads were like.