Casa Blanca
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Off to the country!!! Lovely!!!
Isn´t it funny how places work. How you judge them and how one person can hate a place and another person love it? Well Santa Cruz feels to me much more relaxed than the rest of Bolivia to me. I suppose this feeling started on the plane (well maybe even at the airport when two 7 and 9 year old girls befriended me), then on the plane, the two men ( …
Ruta del Che
Onderweg beseften we dat we eigenlijk bitter weinig wisten van de wereldberoemde Che Guevarra. Tijd om daar iets aan te doen, want hier in Zuid-Amerika was/is hij toch een held.
In Samaipata, een klein maar gezellig dorpje, gingen we op zoek naar een Nederlandse vrouw met reisbureau. We hadden haar al gemaild omdat we geïnteresseerd waren in de Ruta del Che. Deze tour zou ons ook droppen in Sucre, onze volgende bestemming. Twee vliegen in een klap, dus! En alles ...
We could stay a while here
... arrived around lunch-time and immediately knew that only having booked one night here was a mistake - the climate was lovely as it is at 1670meters so not as hot as Santa Cruz, but yet temperate, and our hostel was fantastic and really good value. There's also lots to do in the region of Samaipata, including visiting Amboro National Park, historic ruins and lots of natural beauty.
Unfortunately we had a tour booked to start tomorrow with Ben Verhoef tours, for 3 ...
A rather large rock ... and the Che Guevara Trail
... overly exciting, so we were out of there in less than half hour, including a video screening as well. A taxi then took us out of town to the ancient site, where a guide took us around for the next two hours. His English was pretty good and the tour was reasonably interesting for a change.
The site had first been used by pre-Inca settlers called Chane … then the Incas came in and renovated the rock and area for their own purposes. Another crowd, ...
Where is the fucking toilet?!
... up the road - Knew my instict would be right all along :P
Went quite a bit further and reached the reserve, where some young guy came out of his house, and offered me a tour round. Turns out the place was generally set up up for 2 or 3 day lodgings, but seeing as I only had an afternoon, just wanted a quick whistlestop round. He showed me a few animals in cages, which i didn't particuarly like, but he explained he was a vet and they were all animals that had ...
TripAdvisor Reviews Casa Blanca Samaipata
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