Samaipata Hostels - Reviews and Rates

5th november 2009
Hostal Andrena, Samaipata, Bolivia (110 Bs)
Absolutely perfect
Santa Cruz – Sampaita (130 kms)

Yesterday was a long day which began at 6.30 and ended at 7pm. Thankfully, the weather began a little overcast in Santa Cruz, but by the time we had left the rush hour traffic and the suburbs behind the sun was o...

We head off at 9 with our guide Javier, our translator Alejandro, and a Spanish/Bolivian couple. Our 12km hike went through bush (resembled Australia) to bare mountain top to weaving along a jungle creek for 2 hours. A picnic lunch was included and it was a great day.

Michael Blendinger Tours, Samaipata

Fantastic little hostel, great landscapes and scenery.

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 cold or we could have had a nice shower under the falls and after Igauzu falls this failed in comparison a little. Th...

Early wake up an hour late, we set off to El Fuerte: 5km downhill on the road, and then 5 more uphill to the top. There were clouds, lots of clouds. No sunrise then, and on top of that it was really cold, wit a breeze to help not get any warmer. Taking the scarf and hat and gloves proved a good idea throughout the morning. After walking a couple...

Das **ste grosse Highlight Samaipatas war d** Weg dorthin. Zusammen mit 50 bunten, lauten und lustigen Bolvian**n ging es vollbepackt mit Menschen und bunten Buendeln auf uns**e **ste richtige Bustour à la Bolivia. Diese drei Stunden Busfahrt auf d** alten und einsamen Gebirgsstrasse waren Live-Kino fu** uns**e europaeischen Augen, Ohren und Nas...

was gibt es in samaipata zu sehen? ein riesen inca site! hier haben sich die incas ein lager eingerichtet, das highlight hier ist dass sie einen riesenstein (200m*40m) bearbeitet und wohnlich gemacht haben. auf den fotos die ich gemacht habe gut zu erkennen. (aber muss auf schnellere iternetverbindung warten!). da ich mit einem kumpel aus englan...

We depart on a tour of a fern forest in the Amboro national park at eight. There's only two fern forests on Earth, the other in New Zealand. We're joined by a pair of young marine biologists on their way to volanteer in Ecuador. As we slowly make our way towards the forest in a clunky Toyota Landcruiser, Chris, our guide, former member of the ba...

After a delicious and cheap breakfast we head to the zoo in search of Santa Cruz's sloths. I'm not the biggest fan of zoos but found this one a lot of fun, mainly due to the amount of escaped animals we seen. Monkeys, emus, large rodents, parrots and toucans all roamed free, laughing at their incarcerated brethren. On the down side, the big cats...

It was two and a half hours from Santa Cruz to Samaipata, despite only being about 70 miles. The road started off good, but soon deteriorated to concrete before finally disappearing into huge stone cobbles and giant potholes. There seemed to be no logical pattern to when it deteriorates, but it is especially bad on corners, and some have quite a...