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Samaipata Slideshow
Samaipata
Travel Blogs from Samaipata, Bolivia
Ruins and Animal Refugee
It was about $4 each for the 3 hour taxi up the mountain. The road was pretty dicey in some parts but overall not a bad drive. Samaipata is a nice small town with a really nice feel to it. We had some beers in the arvo on the plaza discussing what to do ...
Samaipata
... signed, sometimes not. You wouldn't want to be a stranger driving along after dark. Maintenance is not a high priority. Arriving in Samaipata we headed for the place we had a reservation, the Chess Club. No-one there. The place appeared deserted. When ...
Bella Vista
... is about an hour and a half to the start of the walk, and the day was perfect. You turn off the main road about 30km from Samaipata then it is 20km along a rough track with lots of trees and lots of rivers across the road. We stopped at a few laces to ...
To Brazil
Tuesday august 8th Samaipata to (en route to) Quijarro Not much to be said. We got a shared cab back to Santa Cruz for less thatnr Saturday but not the theoretical 25 each. Then another taxi to the bus/train station. We were hoping to get the Ferrobus ...
A slow start but a great ending!
After the celebrations the night before we were slow to get going but ended up going to an animal sanctuary with Lianne & Chris. Was a fab day out were we all made friends with a lovely monkey. There were bush pigs, a goat, loads of other monkey´s, ...
Het leven zoals het was:met mijn gat in de hangmat
... hele tijd kunnen babbelen. Hiermee is mijn strafste Santa Cruz-verhaal verteld. Ik ben er dan ook woensdag uit vertrokken richting Samaipata waar ik nu nog zit, een klein dorpje tussen de groene bergen waar zoveel te zien is dat we van de ene ...
A step in the wrong direction
... , good weather, lush surrounding mountains, waterfalls, close access to Santa Cruz and its international airport and La Ruinas de Samaipata). We visited these mysterious ruins on top of the mountain which are still being debated about by its critics on ...
Crazy Bugs Galore!
... from the start of the trip; taking in the whole valley and the surrounding lush green foothills. The area surrounding Samaipata and the national park itself encompasses four distinct ecosystems which made for interesting hiking - one minute you're in sub ...
samaipata....das tor zum p.n. amboro
... zum erfrischen, weiter gings zum naechsten dorf. am spaeten nachmittag sind wir angekommen und vollkommen erschoepft nach samaipata zurueck, essen, schlafen....und endlich mal wieder ausschlafen !! am samstag haben wir uns pferde ausgeliehen und sind 2 h ...
...thars hippies in dem der hills....
... to be a long weekend and this place seems to be anythign but that quiet rested little place....there are people on holidays enjoying all that Samaipata has to offer and there is a buzz in the air. Whist having lunch we over hear that there is to be a ...
Happy birthday Lianne
... on it to celebrate Lianne´s birthday. Full day planned with a taxi for the day to visit El Fuerte (ruins just outside of Samaipata) & waterfalls. For a full day the cost was 2.50 pounds per person. Such great value. In the ruins was very ...
Samaipata
... /hunting trip. Before then, though, we caught up with the two Aussies crashing at our hostel, Kim’s, a block back from Samaipata plaza. Eddie and Lizzie are two cool dudes from Adelaide that were as happy to be hanging out with some Antipodean ...
So nice to be out of a big city
... she smelt like she worked in a butchers & had not showered between her shifts. As the bus was due to arrive in Samaipata at about 5am we booked some accommodation & we were surprised when they turned up to collect the 7 of us ...
A little bit of R&R in Samaipata
... drugs. When we finally reached Santa Cruz in the morning we jumped in a shared taxi to take us the remaining 3 hours to Samaipata, passing through an amazing landscape of sugar-loaf sandstone hills. We checked into the lovely Posada del Sol, a small ...
Getting high in Bolivia
... bu a weird Dutch guy who as wel as feeding us flowers washed our clothes and gave them back wet! Our main reason for being in Samaipata was to climb up to a hill top cloud forest. Which was really eerie. The walk up was quite difficult as we were now ...
Samaipata and all things Che Guevara
... of all things Che. Not the best tour I have done but it was still interesting.... Back in the car for a five hour drive back to Samaipata. Next day we visited the fern forest. We had another couple with us from Milan. So I had a good talk to the guy ...
Us back to nature... or nature back to us?
... of typical Arab Andalusian architecture. The Spaniards abandoned the settlement and moved to the nearby valley were the town of Samaipata is currently located. The archeological site at El Fuerte is unique and it encompasses buildings of three different ...
I Miss Carrot Cake!!
... over the hour. Yeah... we did not go there to have pancakes again... I learned how to play Shithead (Card Game) in Samaipata thanks to Sami, who we were sharing our dorm with. I absolutely love that game now and we have been playing it an awful ...
Samaipata
After a night bus from Trinidad to Santa Cruz then a 3 hour shared taxi we arrived in the beautiful and sleepy town of Samipata. After arriving we took a taxi to the Cuevas (waterfall) near the town. Unfortunately it was a little ...
samaipata
... , yesterday, we looked for the markets there, and then took a taxi to the next village, 3 hours ride, and its called samaipata. its really a nice village, and we went today with 2 other israelies to waterfalls nearby and some old inca ruins, i liked ...
Amboro National Park
We meet at Michael Blendinger Tours Office, Samaipata http://www.discoveringbolivia.com/ & we head off at 9am with our guide Javier, our translator Alejandro, and a Spanish/Bolivian couple who are also on the tour. Our 12km hike in the ...
Samaipata and Ruta del Che
... a particular character with outrageous stories that might have actually been true (e.g. training snakes for Hollywood). Only downsides in Samaipata are lack of ATM, slow internet and lots of mozzies. One particularly helpful mosquito bit my face meaning ...
Relaxing in Samaipata
... Frank we would normally bump in to him anyway and have dinner or drinks with him, he was such a great character and really made Samaipata an enjoyable time for us. We did all our tours through Frank’s company which included a trek to a canyon, an ...
Royal Wedding etc.
Even in a small, sleepy tourist town they showed the royal wedding. It was too early for me and the English backpacker I met yesterday but not for the three billion global viewers in various timezones. Nonetheless today I went to Amboro National Park ...
Un viaje inolvidable
... de 250 m de largo, donde antiguas civilizaciones tallaron nichos, figuras antropomórficas, etc. para fines rituales y ceremoniales. Quien va a Samaipata no puede dejar de conocer este lugar que además es un mirador de toda la zona. Para llegar al sitio ...
Crossing to Brazil today
We depart Samaipata heading for Brazil today. Trent and Rosario feed us another tasty large breakfast and order a taxi for us. This is apparently the best way to get back to Santa Cruz as the buses arent always on time and you can be waiting for them ...
Samaipata, a natural paradise
El Fuerte and surrounds - A 3 hour taxi saw us arrive, and we promptly covered the 20min walk uphill to our hostel, an oasis in the hills complete with vegetable and herb gardens, and the reason we chose it, a lovely place to test out Petes tent that he ...
Panama
... and tuned into the latin beat of salsa and heady meringue on the way to the airport. Nervous as we were at flying Lloyd Aero Bolivia (which if you type it into Google, the first entry that appears is a site with photos of the last LAB flight crash), the ...
Tropical Samaipata
... for visiting the locl waterfalls, but when we arrived it was drab and overcast; in stark contrast to the glorious sunshine in Samaipata town. However, we decided to make the most of it and spent a couple of hours walking the trails before the cold ...