Buganvillas Hotel Condominio Santa Cruz

... sont a l´honneur. Nous passons ensuite a deux navets histoire de nous endormir.A noter que nous roulons a 50km/h, avec quelques pointes de vitesse a 70. Faudrait pas arriver trop vite a Santa Cruz :)<br><br> <br><br> Lundi 9 Novembre<br><br>Arrivée a 8h a la gare. Nous allons directement trouver un logement pour y deposer les sacs. Nous arrivons a la Residencia Bolivar avec un patio tres sympa. <br>Petit dej pris au Mercado Florida ou ...

... our little Alojamiento.<br><br>yesterday we stopped off at the side of the road to have a drink and a snack and the smells transported me to Italy. There was an orange tree in blossom and we were walking on wild oregano, the smells were amazing. I can feel a pizza coming on the minute we hit Santa Cruz!<br><br>We have cycled past places in the past few days with names like new Jerusalem, 4 Hermanos (4 brothers), 8 Hermanos (!), los Angeles, San ...

... watered down rum for $2 (until Dan and I discovered the alcohol potable - 96% strong drinking alcohol - $0.30 bought enough to get us both pretty wasted, and $0.60 bought sufficient mixers for it). By then end of the night, there would be drunk people rolling around the floor, wrestling, covered in drink and cake (seriously, head to toe) - others dancing, others passed out around the place. Carnage. And at the end of the bar were always 20 or so locals, sat in rows ...

... from my pisco volunteering. I told them before i left pisco that i will meet with them again in Bolivia, And sure enough i run into them in la paz. Darius and i decide to check out the witches Mercado. I don't understand how dead llama fetuses bring you good luck, but according to Bolivians it does. So i buy 4 just in case the other three fetuses were broken. just kidding. After the first 3 creepy stores that were selling plenty of ...

... in continental groups and focused on a Bible passage and what it taught us about service. Our North American group read from Nehemiah and we discussed different views of service and how service has been done in North America in the past. I learned a lot from listening to Keshia Littlebear, a delegate from the USA, share about her church´s view of receiving groups who want to serve with them. As the home church they have a responsibility to ...

Nous arrivons vers 11h à Santa Cruz (415 m). Ne sachant pas trop quoi faire, nous prenons un hebergement pres du terminal de bus. Il y en des dizaines et choisissons l'Alojamiento Las Palmeras. Puis nous partons dans le centre. Malgres son rang de 1ere ville bolivienne, Santa Cruz a garde un cote petite capitale proinciale tropicale. La ...

... He had already finished putting the visas in our passports so all I had to do was collect the passports and Jacqui and then TA DA!!! We were in Bolivia!! Well, first we had to go through customs, and they were kinda surprised that we only had one backback between the two of us. But they didn't give us any hassle! (Side Note, the Bolivian Immigration official and the Cambio Exchange both do not accept certain types of US$100 ...

... German embassy to get a visa for Europe... Santa Cruz does feel a lot richer and more European than the rest of Bolivia, it really feels like a different country and was a great change from being in the mountains. There´s lots of wealthy people about in nice clothes, eating in nice restaurants and driving mainly 4x4s and utes.. it also had more Hummers than I´d ever seen.. I think there is a proposal to change ...

After spending 2 days in the largest city in bolivia, my friend and I were ready to move on. We decided to visit one of the jesuit mission towns that lies half way towards the brazilian border and is accessible by train. Train sounds so good after the travel on buses and crazy trufis that go fast on mountain roads and pass at insane times. So we bought really cheap tickets (3$) for a 7 hour trip and showed up an hour early like we were told. After waiting for a hour and a half and finally ...

... The only downside was that we would have to trek for longer as the better site was a further 5k´s away from the intended site. Day 3 - almost there We woke at 5, the same as every day, had breakfast and then headed off. Because a lot of the day was going to be downhill and my knee was still pretty messed up, I decided to pay another porter for the day to carry my pack. We must have trekked for 9hrs and the steps down were really beginning to ...