Rio Selva Resort Coroico

... I was kind of expecting it to be more like a little village in the mountains I think...well i was wrong.<br>Will be good to go to Rio tomorrow..though it taked us nearly 24hrs to get there!!!<br>Anyway better go...Erin is waiting as she has been pottering around all day while I have been risking my life...HaHa!!!<br>Luv Cetrece + Erin<br>P.S.Thanks for all the messages guys..great to hear everyone is enjoying the blog.<br>

... to shoot its mother and take the helpless baby. We try to serve as surrogates as best we can.<br><br>It costs a lot of money to feed and care for all of these animals. In order to raise these funds La Senda functions as a sort of eco-resort as well. We have four large and four small cabins which we rent out to tourists. Volunteers also pay a small fee, which covers housing and food. In addition we have a partnership with Gravity, an adventure company which takes ...

... I began to wheeze, but a shot of Ventolin sorted that out, but it was the general weakness that got to me, to both of us actually. yes, even Boy Wonder was having a bit of trouble, although you'd have to drag that admission out of him!<br><br>Altitude also does strange things to jars of jam too, especially if they are unopened. We lunched at the top of the pass, having changed into our cold weather gear in readiness for our descent, only to find our ...

... with decoration carried out by epileptics and add to this full scale building works surrounding us.<br><br>Compared to our hotel in La Paz we knew that Bolivian standards are better than this and we were paying the same price.  We complained to our tour guide and within two hours of being there it appeared that a full scale clean up operation was taking place on the pools.  Unfortunately not any where else.  <br><br>We decided ...

... next an aussie guy on the tour asked about if there had been any deaths this year, yes&#8230;2&#8230;.ok this really wasn&#8217;t helping my nerves&#8230;&#8230;.Apparently in April an English guy cycled off the edge as he was going too fast and then a guide in another tour went to show a group a few months later where this guy had fell off, then when the guide went to cycle off, he stood up on his bike, his chain came off and he slid ...

... record.<br><br>Sorata was described as very laid back, a description that barely does it justice. Set in a beautiful hillside location, deep in a valley and surrounded by magnificent peaks, the place barely even had a pulse. We stayed at a great little rural type resort just out of town called Altai Oasis and spent most of our few days there. However, during those brief spells when we did venture into town all of the stores, restaurants and internet &#8220;cafes&#8221; (small ...

... the fog clears, everybody becomes a spectator of this engineering necessity that served as a corridor between La Paz and the northern lowlands. Questions like "What the hell am I doing here?" are strengthened by a memorial plate that marks the death of six tourist in a car accident. The up to 700 m deep cliffs claimed the lives of hundreds each year, especially locals travelling in overfilled buses but also 26 tourists and guides in the past 15 years. The road is steep ...

... t sleep a wink. It didn´t help that my new iPhone froze up on me five minutes into the flight so all of my music and books were inaccessible. Forced reboots did nothing. After my MacBook Air broke last week this really got me upset. I may be done with Apple forever.<br><br>Upon landing in La Paz I was shepherded to a line to obtain my visa. You can´t get a visa ahead of time; you just show up with the proper paperwork and hope they don´t turn you away. I was far more ...

... the nose for full suspension bikes. The issue is gravel/dust and loosing grip when cornering...not jumps.... So with this in mind, i found the cheapest operator i could find and was on my way.<br><br>FreeBikes it was, and they were awesome. First rate bikes (hard-tails obviously) and protective gear, good guides, nice support van, good food/snacks, t-shirt, good pics on the final photo CD, same buffet/hotel/pool ...