Santa Rita Apart Hotel Cochabamba

... i came that it would be hard. Again it is hygiene that is the biggest problem here and even just going on the bus or walking down the street is a task when there is rubbish all over the floor, smelly ppl everywhere (they dont wash often in bolivia) and stray dogs all over the place, so far ihave managed to avoid rabies! i have not yet walked down the street and not seen a stray dog!they are everywhere and often hang around in packs. I used to be a dog ...

... So we took a taxi to the collectivo station, bought tickets and provisions and got straight on our way. It was a bit cramped, and the minibus drove fast downhill on a winding, bumpy road. Not too comfortable, but for 20 kroner you can't complain! The view was spectacular as it changed from highland area to tropical rainforest, althouth our view was bit ...

... 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.

I jumped off the bus and so began the next drama.

I took a bus with NASER to ...

... cakes and countless delicous meals. As well as these tasty morcels we went out to a few particularly nice restaurants, a couple in town - "Casa de Campo" and "Estancia" highly recommended. The meat and trout are favourites here. Then we also went to a beautiful resaturant just outside Cochabamba where you can eat outdoors in their beautifully planted garden. We also got to taste the Cochabambini version of cornish pasty - a spicy salchicha - delicious! The ...

Nach den unglaublich schoenen Eindruecken in der einsamen Natur im aeussersten Suedwesten Bolivien fuerte der Weg die letzten Tage durch einige Staedte, womit natuerlich unweigerlich der Kulturschock verbunden war. Zunaechst eine Nacht in Uyuni am Rande der Salar de Uyuni. Rings um die Stadt ist die eigentlich schoene Berglandschaft bis zum Horizont mit Plastikmuess bedeckt, die eigentliche Vegetation kann man kaum noch erkennen. Der ...

... the days at the hospital but watching. Hence why I have come to the decisión , putting education before vacation (after all, this is meant to be educative!) to go back to GVA for surgery. So I leave Friday! I'm secretly really excited to come home (and see my new Little nephew Charlie!), but I will be sad tos ay goodbye to my wonderful host family, and to Cochabamba which has really become a fun city to live in. Side note: I've told the hospital here I'm going home for ...

... in Oruro, and lived with his wife and kid in a half-finished building that during Carnaval they let tourists stay in! So, deciding it was my best bet, I took off down the road with Nestor. Amazingly, he lived only 2 blocks from the main street where the parade is, and there were about 40 other tourists sleeping on the floor of the 3 story little building. He gave me a little room to myself which turned out to be an unfinished kitchen, but did the job! And one of the groups of ...

... rundt litt, shoppa dagligvarer paa Torres Sofre og vandra litt til. Saa kom vi paa noe vi hadde snakka saavidt om i La Paz; hva om det var mulig aa besoeke de norske jentene som sitter fengsla i Cochabamba? Etter litt research paa en internett-kafe fant vi ut at fengselet het San Sebastian og laa midt i byen, ikke saa langt fra der vi var. I taxien dit lurte vi veldig paa om det ville vaere mulig aa komme inn, og om vi kanskje maatte betale ganske mye. Da vi foerst kom ut av taxien ...

Finishing school this weekend and we have found a flat to live in that's 25 pounds a month. Its reasonably snazzy too. The idea is to stay here for 2 months before taking to the highway, just before the wet season starts in bolivia and washes some of the roads away! Pete and Janey have already got jobs, helping women who live, and some who work, on the street. I've been busy lately and havent been able to look, but i'll probs end up teaching english or very basic maths. Alot of ...

... news there might be. Ruddy and his cousin Cristian came back to visit my at the terminal and we had some beers. The road blockage didn't last all that long, luckily, and I was leaving Cochabamba at 22:30, though I nearly missed my bus, as Ruddy wanted to say goodbye, but he got stuck chatting to this lady - mother of a friend of theirs, so the bus had already left the parking lot and I had to run after it like a crazy person with my big backpack and a ...