Hotel Bibosi Santa Cruz

... to Bolivia (even had a Bolivian Bear). The sloths and monkeys were mostly free to roam around the zoo and we enjoyed watching a Sloth slowly climbing around a cage (he was on the outside but seemed to want to get in....lol).<br><br>After this we went to a good restaurnat serving specialities. Not totally understanding the menu we ended up order 4 main courses (we thought we had ordered two startes and two mains). Had some Ceviche (see ...

... Brazil were booked, we took a bus. We weren't even going to take the "death train". The bus seemed like our best bet, but that turned into an entire different expectation. There is one thing to understand about Bolivia. Most of their roads are unpaved (but Evo Morales hopes to pave them soon), and so what seems not that far away can take much longer. The road from Santa Marta to the border was terrible ...

... in Bolivia is not as seamless or as well-timed as Argentina´s gold standard system)<br>- the comical roadside checkpoints in Argentina: we were all ordered to get off our bus at various immigration and defence checkpoints on the roadside, get out our packs and open them for inspection to bored-looking men and women in uniform to inspect .......... THREE times!! At least we and the ...

... I was able to pay this taxi driver the $50Bs because I'd gotten change at the Pizza shop. But our first driver wasn't at the airport! We checked in and waited outside to see if he'd show up until the GOL employees came and told us we HAD to go to the gate NOW. So now I feel like a complete jerk and a bad representative for my country because now this Bolivian cab driver is going to think we stiffed him on purpose. We DID try ...

... to its word, the night was an experience not to be forgotten. It was like spending an entire day on a rollercoaster, the runaway train at Disney World comes to mind. It doesn´t go that fast by European trains standards, may be 40 to 50mph but it is fast enough when you get launched in and out of your chair every few moments with you heart in your mouth. You really did feel like it was going to leave the rails and I am sure it did as every so often you ...

... at around 7am only for it to be completely clouded over. We waited for a while and then headed down to the entrance to hand in our backpacks and explore the site properly. At this point I reminded Bruno (our guide) for around the 10th time that I really wanted to climb Waynapicchu. This is a mountain that affords amazing views over MP and was something I first heard about from Koen in Laos and then some Kiwis I met in Huanchaco. Basically I was ...

... when he put his mind to it). There were two officials and we were sent in one by one, with the door scarily closed behind us, to have our passports stamped with exit stamps. It was all rather uneventful and we left the office for Bolivia, only to be chased down by a siren blaring police car. Suddenly things were looking a bit excited. I was quite disappointed when the armed policeman boarded the bus simply to find the one person who had slept through the stamping and therefore had ...