www.with-open-eyes.com http://www.with-open-eyes.com/blog Photography by Sacha Metzinger Wed, 24 Dec 2008 11:20:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 en Hyderabad http://www.with-open-eyes.com/blog/?p=521 http://www.with-open-eyes.com/blog/?p=521#comments Wed, 24 Dec 2008 11:20:44 +0000 5625 http://www.with-open-eyes.com/blog/?p=521 http://www.with-open-eyes.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=521 Hyderabad Chowmahala - Palaces of the Nizams http://www.with-open-eyes.com/blog/?p=519 http://www.with-open-eyes.com/blog/?p=519#comments Wed, 24 Dec 2008 11:04:10 +0000 5625 http://www.with-open-eyes.com/blog/?p=519 http://www.with-open-eyes.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=519 Impressions of Kerala - “Land of the Coconut” http://www.with-open-eyes.com/blog/?p=517 http://www.with-open-eyes.com/blog/?p=517#comments Wed, 24 Dec 2008 11:03:08 +0000 5625 http://www.with-open-eyes.com/blog/?p=517 http://www.with-open-eyes.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=517 India December 2008 http://www.with-open-eyes.com/blog/?p=513 http://www.with-open-eyes.com/blog/?p=513#comments Fri, 19 Dec 2008 22:33:17 +0000 5625 http://www.with-open-eyes.com/blog/?p=513 http://www.with-open-eyes.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=513 Updated: Day 6 The Salar de Uyuni http://www.with-open-eyes.com/blog/?p=104 http://www.with-open-eyes.com/blog/?p=104#comments Sat, 17 Nov 2007 17:39:43 +0000 5625 http://www.with-open-eyes.com/blog/?p=104 Today’s experience is more than a little surreal. Piercing blue skies contrast with blinding white salt as we drive across the flat lakebed. We are at 3.600 metres above the sea. Twice submerged by a large high-altitude lake, the Salar de Uyuni salt flats now cover a total area of over 12.000 square km (7.440 square miles) and are the largest salt flats in the world.
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The last large lake dried up about 8.000 years, leaving the small lakes of [...]

]]> http://www.with-open-eyes.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=104 Updated: Day 4-5 The Bolivian Altiplano http://www.with-open-eyes.com/blog/?p=41 http://www.with-open-eyes.com/blog/?p=41#comments Fri, 16 Nov 2007 18:05:34 +0000 5625 http://www.with-open-eyes.com/blog/?p=41 Climbing 3000 metres from the Chilean desert we cross the border and enter the Bolivian altiplano.

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The road is dotted with wrecks of camiones where brakes have failed on the long steep road into the Atacam desert. The next three days will be spent exploring the stunning landscapes between the Salar de Uyuni and Chile’s Atacama Desert by four-wheel-drive. This area’s unusual landscape of mountains, active volcanoes, and geysers [...]

]]> http://www.with-open-eyes.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=41 Updated: Day 5 Bolivian Altiplano http://www.with-open-eyes.com/blog/?p=91 http://www.with-open-eyes.com/blog/?p=91#comments Thu, 15 Nov 2007 23:08:52 +0000 5625 http://www.with-open-eyes.com/blog/?p=91 http://www.with-open-eyes.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=91 Updated: Day 2-3 Atacama desert http://www.with-open-eyes.com/blog/?p=81 http://www.with-open-eyes.com/blog/?p=81#comments Sat, 10 Nov 2007 01:01:08 +0000 5625 http://www.with-open-eyes.com/blog/?p=81 http://www.with-open-eyes.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=81 Updated: Day 1 Santiago de Chile http://www.with-open-eyes.com/blog/?p=62 http://www.with-open-eyes.com/blog/?p=62#comments Tue, 06 Nov 2007 20:16:25 +0000 5625 http://www.with-open-eyes.com/blog/?p=62 http://www.with-open-eyes.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=62 Most Dangerous Road in the World / El Camino de la Muerte http://www.with-open-eyes.com/blog/?p=142 http://www.with-open-eyes.com/blog/?p=142#comments Mon, 15 Oct 2007 06:27:23 +0000 5625 http://www.with-open-eyes.com/blog/?p=142 http://www.with-open-eyes.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=142