Residencial Bolivar Santa Cruz

... til Guarayos for at gaa paa internettet og handle lidt godter ind til den kommende uge. <br>Vi har moedt virkelig mange fantastisk mennesker i parken, og desvaerre var der ogsaa nogle stykker som maatte tage afsted foer tid da der var braend i en af vaerelserne og de mistede alle <br>deres ting. Da en del mennesker tog afsted lige omkring branden begyndte de at mangle mennesker paa kattene - til mit held! Og de sidste 2 uger vi var i ...

Success feels so good. Like I've said in a few of the past blog updates, Jacqui and I needed to reset our Brasilian visas. We're only allowed to be here for 90 days at a time on the visas we currently have. And we were getting up to the 87 day mark and still need to be here for another 2 weeks. Flying from Campo Grande, Brasil to Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia was the fastest, easier way to go to another country from Brasil ...

... as she is already spoken for. She was very courageous considering that the beauticians didn't speak a word of English.....goodness knows what they could have whipped off in the process, thankfully we both left with all parts in order and accounted for. Well that was my whistle stop visit to Santa Cruz, funfilled and frantic, next,16 hours on an overnight train to cross the border from Bolivia into Brazil.............

... on my suitcase on the bus. With the bus driver standing around, trying to assist as much as possible, I told him I had a copy in my suitcase in the luggage compartment. We dashed to the bus, digging thru the luggage compartment, we found my suitcase, and luckily for me, found my visa zerox at the first pass. I ran back into the migracion office, gave the officer my zerox copy, and he grimaced, and frowned. (This was not ...

... for this reason only.... crazy. Once we got bored of questioning him and he got bored of us we were taken on a very short tour of the section, known as Posta and is the 5* section of San Pedro, that the drug traffickers live in. This section is "safe" in comparison to the other sections that house the murderers, rapists and pedophiles. We were shown Daniel´s cell (complete with en-suite), and led down a very dark corridor to the punishment room ...

... try and rob you, just let them take it; * Enjoy your stay in Santa Cruz. All well and good if you´re a normal person but, as you all know, I am double hard and have two licensed weapons (left and right guns), and would therefore find it impossible to follow point three above. That said, I did venture out with just enough cash to cover a decent dinner at a nearby restaurant which was slightly marred by being seated near a loud American stereotype (most have met on this trip to date ...