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- Capital
- Boliviano (BOB)
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Cochabamba Slideshow
Cochabamba
Travel Blogs from Cochabamba, Bolivia
Family Problems
... I've been busy lately and havent been able to look, but i'll probs end up teaching english or very basic maths. Alot of Cochabamba is very affluent and sometimes you don't feel in the poorest country of south america at all. There is mostly running hot ...
Cochabamba.....the gear capital of South America
... with our time in Cochabamba well spent, we made final preparations (gas, oil) for the big climb into La Paz. Portugues ------ "Cochabamba ..... a capital da equipamento da América do Sul" Depois de passar alguns testes sérios para chegar a este ponto da ...
Home Away From Homestays...
... volunteer work at a local orphanage, and they will also have some time to continue exploring the beautiful city of Cochabamba. – Their host families this week are wealthy and living conditions will be very comfortable. Classes and city home stays ...
Randomness
... of dominoes - party animals I know! We had a lovely taxi driver on the way back and he chatted about Bolivia and Cochabamba. Oliver was sat in the front and it does amuse me watching him trying to communicate! His Spanish is definitely ...
Cocacabamba
Really lovely town, Isla del Sol is here too. The pictures of the cars and lorries is where they bless the cars to protect them from crashing. There are alot of crashes because the roads are so dire and non existent in some places, the bus ...
Première journée à Cochabamba
... répondu : Française, 22 ans, elle partait pour un trek de 4 jours le lendemain, avec son club de trekking de Cochabamba, et m'invitait à y participer. Quelle chance ! J'ai ensuite acheté une carte SIM bolivienne dans une boutique, et j'ai galéré ...
Inti wara yassi - animal volunteer project
... for my slackness.. :) So i have now completed 16 days volunteering at Inti wara yassi which is an animal refuge in Bolivia... It is a great organisation that rescues wild animals from market stalls, the circus, zoos and people who keep them as ...
Home sweet home, for 6 weeks
... Sustainable Bolivia. SB is a non-profit volunteer organization that sets up volunteer placements with over 25 different organizations in Cochabamba, ranging from renewable energy groups to day care for kids who grow up in prison (in Bolivia, kids with ...
Marchés et gateaux au chocolat
Ce matin-là, Marion m'a emmené petit-déjeuner au « café Paris ». Enfin un vrai café, bien fort, et pas ce Nescafé que j'avale depuis le Chili ! On est ensuite allé faire quelques courses : un passage au Spitting Lama, un magasin de ...
Cochabamba - Bolivia
Overnighting it to Cochabamba, we had a day there to look around before we could catch one of only two or three buses a week to Torotoro. While not having any sights as such, it was known more for its cuisine, and being in a fertile valley with ...
COCHABAMBA
... great humility really, difficult not to think of the way the world is going sometimes. The trip from Santa Cruz (500m) to Cochabamba (2500m) was amazing, huge green mountains looking like a tropical forest, small roads full of curves, trucks lined up for ...
Too fast, missing some stuff
... gave me a good contact to find my accommodation.On the afternoon, I met Andrés and a friend of his for a small city tour. In Cochabamba, there is a big statue of the Christ which is said to be bigger than the one in Rio. We took the "teleferico" up to ...
A trip to Cochabamba & Christ
Cochabamba Cochabamba is one of Bolivia’s boom cities, with a distinct , almost Mediterranean vitality and a prosperous feel it was a welcome break from the cold and madness we had experienced in La Paz. We had checked out a place to stay ...
No I don't want an apple... or a pear...
... of 3600m that we would be faced with in La Paz. Like Santa Cruz, we intended to spend just a night in Cochabamba as we continued our journey across Bolivia. However, we actually ended up staying for 3 nights before we got the bus to La Paz. With very ...
Bye Bye La Paz
... into a very large (judged by the fact it took us 30 minutes to get to the centre from the outskirts) and busy Cochabamba. Our first impressions were that it looked very much like locals place with not many gringos around. Our hostel ...
De vloek van JC? Niet voor detailgevoelige lezers
... wel helpt dat ik alles uitspuw. Van reisgenootjes langs Boliviaanse wegen had ik al heel uiteenlopende verhalen gehoord over Cochabamba, gaande van een stad die niets voorsteld tot niet te missen plek. Bij aankomst was ik nog geneigd me lid ...
a whole lot of nothing in Cochabamba
... the time. But we walked with the girl and we found a hostel so everything worked out okay. We also arrived Cochabamba on a Sunday, which like most colonial towns follows siesta and the rule that nothing is open on Sunday. I think the ...
Leaving the Orphanage
Today I left the orphanage where i've worked now for 7 weeks. My entire job description was to give the older kids (3-5 years old but walking, talking, and toilet trained (mostly!)) some much needed attention, and they really needed it! There are over 50 ...
Ciao Cochabamba
... in prior to our overnight bus and a long day of waiting ahead of us. We agreed to spend the day wandering around Cochabamba trying to get a better feel for it and started off at the outdoor market that was close to our hostel. Our bargain ...
A visit to big JC
... a man squatting to go to the toilet in the middle of the pavement just off a roundabout! This was a bit strange as Cochabamba seemed more developed, with modern buildings and nice to walk through so it wasn't a sight we were expecting to see. ...
Cochabamba
Nous arrivons après 7h dans un bus, incroyablement luxueux pour la Bolivie, à Cochabamba. Il est déjà tard, du coup après avoir posé nos bagages dans l'hôtel la "residencia familia" nous filons manger un choripan dans les stands improvisés de la ...
Cochabamba III, Ausflüge in die Region
D Wuchenend hend mir jeweils gnutzt, d Umgebig vo Cochabamba achli kennezlerne. Nationalpark Toro Toro: Ueber s Osterwuchenend hend mir e 3-taegige Tour i dae NP gmacht. Dae Name vom Park stammt urspruenglich usem Quechua und heisst "sumpfigi Flaechi". ...
Cochabamba I, Voluntaer-Einsatz
Schuel / Familie: Mir haend Privatuntericht gnah z Cochabamba fuer 2 Wuche und haend euses Spanisch verbesseret. I dere Ziit haend mir inere Familie i emen Huus mit emene Garte mit Feigen-, Banane-, Oepfel- und Avocadobaeum gwohnt. Leider haend sie ...
Carnival again!
... people who took us out to a club after the carnival ended. Altogether a fun time. The other highlight of our trip to Cochabamba was a restaurant called Dumbo`s which served the most amazing ice cream sundaes. We were so happy. We also went to see the ...
Cumbre de los Pueblos y Cambio Climático
... yo que se y ministros de lo que sea y yo. Fue un vuelo muy corto, all legar nos recibieron y nos trasladaron al hotel de Cochabamba. La cumbre realmente fue una cumbre paralela a Copenhaguen. Esta vez se escucho la voz y opinion de los que no tuvieron un ...
Cochabamba - t'ain't what it used to be.
... until it’s absolutely dark before switching their lights on. It seems to be some kind of macho thing. Once in Cochabamba we saw numerous vehicles including public buses at night without lights on. I also got beeped for not jumping a red ...
C'mon, you can think of a clever title.
yeee jaheihallomitenander, wettigs derfji. zersch heiwer es tiptops hostel uesgsuecht, da siwer nach der zimmervisite gat wider raechtsumkert emues. also xeh heiwer nid so vill, ei strass und der maert mit de luschtige freue. fer 10 bolivianos haetti ...
