Hostal Vallegrande

... to continue as we had enough water and food to wild camp if we needed to. We very nearly stopped off at the parking area of Cuevas, where there are some waterfalls. By then we knew it was only another 18 kms to Samaipata so we trundled on. <br><br>At some point we came across Nazareth. We noticed the verges on the road were grassed there were white fences, and there were huge Agave plants along the road. There was even a man with a ...

... ik dat nu even rechtzetten en die eer dan wel toekennen aan Santa Cruz, waar mijn jas wel heel diep in mijn rugzak is verdwenen. Ok, lui zijn wordt soms als mijn specialiteit omschreven, maar een hele dag in een hangmat gaat ook vervelen, dus ik ben toch ook maar op bezoek geweest in het huis(je) dat COMPA er heeft opgericht. Het was een heel speciale ontmoeting. Ik moest bellen om te worden opgepikt aan 1 of ander tankstation buiten het centrum ...

Two hours of a dirt road lead us to La Higuera, a small village with about 100 inhabitants located in the forest green, far away 150 km from Santa Cruz. We arrive at the dusty square of the village, that is dominated by a memorial of Ernesto Che Guevara. Here we met a woman who accompany us to the little museum created in the former schoolhouse, where the day 9 of October 1967 Che ...

We leave from Santa Cruz to follow the last track of Ernesto Che Guevara during his bolivian campaign, tha last one of his great revolutionary life. We are very proud to go there to visit the places where the story is real, where the story is living... Our pleasent company is formed of our French friends Martina and Jean, the cowboy Danelio and the driver .... On the way to ...

... did not disappoint us as there was moss, mushrooms and vines growing everywhere and as it was in the clouds there was so much moisture. There where giant fern with trunks that were 2´thick - not something you see everyday! We had one final day in Samipata before going back to Santa Cruz and catching our flight to La Paz and although I am working on Latha´s fear of all animals I think I took a step back that day. We where having a cup of ...

... knocked off his feet, having been hit by the front of the car and rolled off the bonnet. Thankfully there were no serious injuries, and we were given a lift the local clinic to check for any damage. But in all the commotion the dog was lost.... As an antidote to all the action from the previous two days, we spent the next one relaxing in the local luxury hotel´s pool and grounds, overlooking the township below. The weather was fine ...

Coincidenza? Mi trovo in Bolivia proprio nell'anno in cui si ricorda il quarantesimo anniversario dell'assassinio di Ernesto Che Guevara. La data precisa è l'8 ottobre del 1967. Il luogo è la Higuera, minuscola comunità vicina a Vallegrande (dipartimento di Santa Cruz). La distanza da La Paz è notevole ma più forte è il desiderio di partecipare a questo momento nel quale "fare memoria". Ad animarmi ancora di più è Riccardo che vede, in questo piccolo viaggio, la possibilit ...

Well, here I am in another week of training. We spent last week working hard to prepare for tech week this week, so there wasn't anything terribly exciting about that, but now we are here in Vallegrande working of a business simulation with a local high school. We started the trip on Saturday at 630 am on the Peace Corps micro bus and drove for 12 or 13 hours on mountain roads and through valleys with beautiful views to Semaipata. Semaipata is an awesome little tourist town where we ...

I was told lots of different times when a bus may come past headed to Vallegrande. The earliest was 10am so I got tothe highway at 9.45am. It rained on and off all morning and I didn't even dare go to the toilet in case the bus came. I was sat on the side of the road where a lot of taxis park, at about 11.45 a taxi driver came up and asked me if I was going to Vallegrande, I asked him if he knew ...

May.28-29 - Vallegrande, Bolivia This will be the end to my Che Guevara quest. I've been where he was born and now where he died. After the Cuban revolution he came to Vallegrande, Bolivia to start a new revolution that would spread throughout South America. Having everything he could need in Cuba, he gave it all up and went to Bolivia, to build a revolution there, and prepared to lose ...