Hotel Victoria Resort Cochabamba

... state, with broken windows, holes in ceilings, poorly insulated walls and a general lack of space for the student population. Conditions are too hot in the summer and too cold in the winter, making it very hard for kids and teachers alike to focus on a good education. Thus, we spent the week helping to build four new classrooms for student use. With the brick shells already constructed by past Youth International groups, we worked at adding smooth ...

hi!!!!!!!!!!!!! i kno i kno im rubbish at keeping this up to date!!! im having such a good time here now though, i think it just took me a while to get used to evrything! had one of the best weekends of my mife the other week when we went to the highest lake in the world, lake titicaca! was so beautiful and a few of us were mad enough to jump in even though it was freezing!!!!!!!!!!!! loool i ...

... on the counter). I couldnt be bothered with the hassle at this early stage in my trip so i left it..;for now, sat down and thought ,no, shouldnt let ppl like that get away with pocketing the odd quid and she would have done it to others so i took the receipt with her name on it and went to security and told them to check the shops camaras!!hah! although i have to say i wasnt in the mood to argue for the money back!!ok ...

So from Uyuni we travelled to Oruro for a few days before setting off to Inti Wara Yassi the wildlife refuge on Tuesday. We arrived fairly late in the evening, so after we had been given our intros etc we basically just found our accommodation &#8211; we stayed in Las Vegas (on of the hostels owned by the refuge) and crashed out.<br><br>As we were both given different assignments we thought it would be good for each of us to describe a typical day:<br ...

We got to play with monkeys! <br><br>After two days of trying to go to the wildllife refuge park (first day i was sick, next day was too wet for it to be open) we got to visit. The Park is staffed by volunteers - namely travellers - (including my cousin who walks with the puma through the jungle). The Park takes animals that have been kept in zoos, circuses or families and often they have been ...

So we have found the jungle, and its very humid, warm and wet. We´re in a little town with a giant road running through it, surrounded by green mountains and a big river. It is a dramatic change from the typically dry regions of Boliva we have been in so far. The birds are cool - colourful and sound like ringtones but better. Apparently we will see monkeys and other animals if it stops raining.<br><br>This is the coca growing region of Bolivia, and ...

... left feeling slightly disturbed for a number of reasons... lack of infection control being a major factor, and of course having previously worked with burns i was incredibly interested in how this ward was run. <br><br>So i managed one full week... and i definitely left that place most afternoons wondering whether most of those poor children would still be there the next day! The following, and what was to be my final week volunteering ...

... the one in Rio, just not as well known! And honestly not as nicely carved. Other than that we mainly wandered the streets window shopping and hanging out in cafes. Though we did get scared by a protest march when we heard what sounded like gunshots...thankfully it turned out to be handheld firecrackers that were being used to draw attention and draw attention they did!!!

Aangezien er niet veel te beleven of te zien is in Cochabamba (en we de grote steden enigzins zat zijn) hebben we besloten om naar Villa Tunari te gaan. Dit is een dorpje op de route richting Santa Cruz waar het klimaat sub-tropisch is. De voornaamste reden om hier naar toe te gaan was in feite dat we bij een tour-agency hadden gezien dat je er kon raften. Goed en wel aangekomen met een lokale bus (een uurtje of 4 a 5), en nadat we onze spullen hadden gedropt bij ons ...

Ciao a tutti, sono appena tornato dal Chapare, la regione di foresta pluviale nei pressi di Cochabamba dove siamo andati tutti i volontari ad aiutare a costruire un posto dove stanno iniziando a lavorare coi bambini. E' stato bello, io ho lavorato a costruire un pollaio, mi sentivo un pó come se fossi tornato all'Hashomer, ad uno dei campeggi, sveglia alle ...