Hotel Caparuch Santa Cruz

... from cusco to puno i came across a sight that almost brought tears to my eyes. A mid aged lady gets on board from a small town with a giant blanket full of something. Inside lies a toasted baby lamb. For a little over a dollar she whips out her knife and starts hacking this lamb to pieces in the middle of the bus. This sight was so beautiful it would have turned any vegetarian into a meat loving monster. She hands me a rib with a few ...

I have arrived. Getting here was relatively painless and even after two days I still don't feel like I'm really here. I'm certain I'm still waiting for the realization of what this summer entailed to sink in. Who knows how long that will take...
Today the other newbies and I had a chance to visit the campus of my future workplace, Santa Cruz Cooperative School. I had the most wonderful ...

... was lumpy and rocky. I'm not talking about pebbles. I'm talking about rocks the size of footballs! We tossed back and forth and up and down down the dusty road, stopping for a bathroom break on the side of the road. That reminds me, in Bolivia they don't take you to bathrooms. They take you to fields and streets to urinate. Fortunately, I never had to do anything else besides pee. At around midnight, the ...

... find him and give him his money though! Another note about Bolivia, you have to pay the departure tax separate from your airline ticket. And this has to be paid in USD (for everyone I think). It's $19USD to leave Bolivia and Santa Cruz has their own departure tax of $5USD. So it's $24USD per person to leave... It was funny going back to Brasil though. At the immigration control for exiting Bolivia, the official there was the ...

We ended up staying in Santa Cruz longer than we had planned because we had to wait for our washing to be done before heading to the wildlife sanctuary. However as it happens I think it was a blessing in disguise! One of the guys we met earlier in our trip headed to the sancturary in advance and we received an email from him the ...

... benches to sit at. Lots of old folk sit and play chess, families convene on benches, school children feed the pigeons and there are numerous one man shoe shine stalls looking after the suits. The locals wear lovely bright coloured clothes, mostly white with red, yellow and orange designs. You see a lot of older women walking around with large multi coloured bags on their backs full of food or clothes. Julie noticed that the hundreds of small buses that run ...

... turned up at 6am from Aguas Calientes, therefore beating the trekkers. They should either open the last trekkers checkpoint early or they should at least allow the trekkers time to savor the place for themselves first before allowing the day trippers access.... The day I visited the world's most notorious jail The start of one of the strangest days of my life began when I called a guy named Stuart on his cellphone and arranged to meet with him at ...

... couldnīt initially understand, but after a while - by process of response elimination - I worked out that he was asking how long I was staying and if I had any money. From here we were all escorted into a bizarre army camp, where about 20 soldiers were milling around in full uniform, where we were ticked off on a list by a soldier. One of the senior officers attempted to call the soldiers into an imposing formation but it was the worst display I have ever seen - they slowly wobbled into ...

... when I discover my bus, I understood that it was a normal bus that would be overcrowded within few km after leaving the town. As I thought, they first try to make enter all the luggage to the compartment for the luggage but even with a good tetris mind, as any of the passanger of the bus came with very huge bag or only kind of huge plastic bag totally full, the baggage remain in the ...

... family could receive a portion of fruit along with their current portions. I am also returning in 2 weeks and am taking and taking 90 of the kids to the Circus!!! Will be unreal and a real treat for them!!!

If host families are not your style then from September 4th FAMUNDi will have 2 X 6 bed dorms available for volunteers on the grounds. They are beingt built right now, i saw the construction and they look great. One dorm has an on suite bathroom with ...