La Corona Aparthotel Cochabamba

... My co-leader Jess and I did the same and were relieved to have a place to hang our hats for a week. Everyday we had two sessions of Spanish class with local professors, and embraced the opportunity to brush up on our conversational skills (for the more proficient) or at least learn some survival phrases (for the otherwise hopeless). Students then shared meals with their homestay families and otherwise had time to explore the city´s markets and ...

Hi all!! hope u are well!... i am not. lol. i have a stomach infection due to the lack of hygiene at then orphanage, was bound to happen at some point. Was sick every 15 minutes last nite for hours, i have never felt so ill in my life. my host family wanted to take me to hospital but i waited till this morning and saw the doctor and iv been given antibiotics and weird sachet things. It had to happen, there is no basic sanitation, the children ...

... had a class of 7 with another volunteer but she is going in two days time so i will have to occupy them all by myself and will be looking after these children for the month, feeding,brushing teeth, playing games, toilets everything!! they are cute but really stink coz ther isnt enuf water and they only get bathed every few weeks and most of the children have been in their clothes for about a month. it was hard not ...

... Sorry to disturb you but my shoe is missing - all the bumping seems to have thrown it down the bus. Please look beneath your feet". I was almost at the point of offering a cash prize "30 bolivianos for the first person to find my boot" but thankfully was saved by the call of a neighbouring seat - my shoe had been been found. <br><br>I jumped off the bus and so began the next drama.<br><br>I took a bus with NASER to ...

... something, from a million different types of thongs (gotta love Havainas and Ipanemas for $6 and in every colour, style and pattern imaginable - place your orders ladies!) to builders cement and bricks (don´t get many shopfronts back at home where people come in to buy single bricks and not by the pallet load!) <br><br>The city does have one claim to fame though. It has a gleaming white statue of Christ the Redeemer (of ...

... the tale... hmmm. Otherwise my days are spent gradually getting to know the nine other people living in the house (some work here for Sustainable Bolivia, some volunteer, and a couple of others just rent rooms), getting to know the other volunteers living either in the other house around the corner or who at homestays with local families, and catching up with random other people i have met in my travels throughout Chile ...

... viele Leute betteln und leben auf der Strasse, schon 3 jaehrige Kinder laufen ununterbrochen durch die Restaurants und versuchen alles moegliche zu verkaufen. An jeder Strassenecke betteln und leben Frauen mit ihren Kindern. Nach mittlerweise 3 Tage in dieser doch recht netten Stadt, werde ich die naechsten Tage noch mal nach Chile einreisen um ein paar Tage im Lauca Nationalpark mit bis zu ueber 6000 meter hohen Vulkanen zu verbringen.

... could stay! It was deserted! But stay we did, got a nice hot shower, some semi-decent food, a filthy bathroom, and most importantly, a beer and a bed! Day 2: Early start at 7 along the side of the browner part of the Salar, and into a large sweeping valley - which after rain apparently becomes a lake of mud! We were lucky to only have to cross a few muddy spots. Short stop in the villaje of San Juan - lots of llamas! - to buy wáter/snacks. We continuted our drive through vast ...

So our time in Cochabamab is coming to an end...there will be an entry to update on the last weekend in Torotoro National Park which was lifechaging in so many ways....music, mountains, lack of restaurants, lack of lighting in caves, lack of wiggle room in caves.... However we kinda know a sorta timeline for the next few months. Pretty loose...good change more time will be taken in the Chili Argentina region ...

So I arrived in Cochabamba about 4 days ago now and have had one full day of Volunteering. First off let me paint a picture of the daycare/orphange that I'm volunteering at. You walk in and there are little clay huts that are in igloo like shapes, each one has a different theme and is painted with the theme, there is even a room about the others that you take a winding staircase to get up to and then you can either take the slide or the firepole down! They also managed ...