Gran Hotel Cochabamba

... away. <br><br>Toro Toro is famous for it´s pre-historic landscapes and the guide showed us some dinosaur footprints that were formed when the dinosaurs walked across the shallow lakes several hundred thousand years ago. We were a bit sceptical at first but you can clearly see that the rocks were actually river beds that have dried up and the footprints couldn´t have possibly got there any other way. All the prints were going in the same ...

... lead us into the arms of thieves, something I doubted but was not willing to risk having Jessy with me. Christo will have to wait.<br><br>Our other goal was to meet Tany´s family, and again we were thwarted. I feel bad because we didn't give much notice before arriving, but I was more than a bit bummed that we never got to meet them. I called Tany´s aunt at least ten times and was told each time to call back later, with plans were ...

... the nursery where i work with the children during the day is quite clean, their houses where they sleep and stay at the weekend (also on the same site) are filthy and the main carers (who they call 'tias' which means aunt) dont look after the children properly as they never bath them. As the orphanage is run by the state the wages are extremely low and u can tell that some of the staff are v demotivated and cant be bothered anymore. its v sad. The children ...

... twice and to the theatre to see some great Bolivian folkdances from all over the country.<br><br> Then Joel came and joined me for a couple of days. Really nice to get a feel for a place after so many short stops. I fear I have now been spoilt for the rest of the trip!<br>

... some 34 meters (excluding the podium on which it stands). It has a plain beauty and is hollowed out inside allowing people to climb up into Cristo up into his head and down and along one of his sleeves. The views from here really give you a sense of the city. We also went to "Tarata" a beautiful little town 33km Soth-East of Cochabamba. It has a delightful square and interesting little museum full of fossils and much more ...

Nach den unglaublich schoenen Eindruecken in der einsamen Natur im aeussersten Suedwesten Bolivien fuerte der Weg die letzten Tage durch einige Staedte, womit natuerlich unweigerlich der Kulturschock verbunden war. Zunaechst eine Nacht in Uyuni am Rande der Salar de Uyuni. Rings um die Stadt ist die eigentlich schoene Berglandschaft bis zum Horizont mit Plastikmuess bedeckt, die eigentliche Vegetation kann man kaum noch erkennen. Der ...

... the days at the hospital but watching. Hence why I have come to the decisión , putting education before vacation (after all, this is meant to be educative!) to go back to GVA for surgery. So I leave Friday! I'm secretly really excited to come home (and see my new Little nephew Charlie!), but I will be sad tos ay goodbye to my wonderful host family, and to Cochabamba which has really become a fun city to live in. Side note: I've told the hospital here I'm going home for ...

... in Oruro, and lived with his wife and kid in a half-finished building that during Carnaval they let tourists stay in! So, deciding it was my best bet, I took off down the road with Nestor. Amazingly, he lived only 2 blocks from the main street where the parade is, and there were about 40 other tourists sleeping on the floor of the 3 story little building. He gave me a little room to myself which turned out to be an unfinished kitchen, but did the job! And one of the groups of ...

... rundt litt, shoppa dagligvarer paa Torres Sofre og vandra litt til. Saa kom vi paa noe vi hadde snakka saavidt om i La Paz; hva om det var mulig aa besoeke de norske jentene som sitter fengsla i Cochabamba? Etter litt research paa en internett-kafe fant vi ut at fengselet het San Sebastian og laa midt i byen, ikke saa langt fra der vi var. I taxien dit lurte vi veldig paa om det ville vaere mulig aa komme inn, og om vi kanskje maatte betale ganske mye. Da vi foerst kom ut av taxien ...

... really wanting to prove it to the whole world! Then we ended up going to a pretty big and cool disco, for Bolivia, I thought! A rather wild night that, and must be placed with a recommendation: Do not go jammin' after 12 hours on a nightbus without having slept anything! Makes you drunk and do seriously dumb things! The day after the night out was not the best of my life - horrific<br>hangover and then me and Ruddy also got locked outside, since I was ...