Santa Rita Apart Hotel Cochabamba

... This was not without stress, as one youngster got wasted with his host sister and later failed to make a convincing justification to me of both his hangover and the numerous beer pong keg cups on his bedroom floor. We read him his last rights and threatened to send him home, but didn´t, satisfied that the message got through to the whole group. To clarify, the students may drink, but are limited to 2 drinks in a night to avoid intoxication and further ...

... use loo roll and they dont wash their hands afta the toilet so u can imagine!! Hope none of u have just eaten sorry! i was meant to be partying it up in La Paz (one of the capitals, Bolivia has 2) this weekend but obv i cudnt go coz i have still been sick today, shame coz i had already paid for my flight there and it is my last weekend in Bolivia, o well. I have to say i am very much looking forward to coming home and getting back to ...

... be teary but its not my place to cry. it broke my heart when 2girls in particular just start crying for no reason n stare at the floor, it must be v confusing for them as one girl had only been there for a week!! the orphanage isnt even given the information as to what has happned to them!! can only do my best to support them and help them whilst im here but i do feel slightly helpless coz i cant change the ...

... It was 45 minutes later depating and I noticed with a slight sense of apprehension that all of the bolivians were wearing lots of blankets. I soon realised quick enough that this was because there was no heating on the bus and it was like sitting in a deep freeze. Even the blanket-clad bolivians were shivering and shouting "califaction" (heat the bus!) at the driver. I couldve wept when I realsed that I had left ...

... de Janeiro fame) on a hill behind the city, but this one, rather than being 33m tall like the one in Rio (one for every year of Christ´s life as the story goes), is just a little bit bigger. The justification is that apparently as Christ lived for 33 'and a bit' years, they would build their statue just that 'little bit´ bigger (we think probably to just outdo the Brazilians more than based on any scientific facts ...

... Argentina who happen to be passing through. So that of course keeps me busy, all that going out to eat, trying new and interesting foods, making friends with local uni students who wish to practice speaking english when i really need to be practicing my spanish, wandering around having people pretend to be police with fake IDs with the hope of stealing my passport (okay so that only happened once), you know the usual. But i ...

The Violetta's Apart Hotel is located in Cochabamba, close to El Prado in a calm area of the city. The Violetta's Apart Hotel offers comfortable and fully equipped apartments for your stay in Cochabamba, Bolivia on business or vacation. You can make a reservation through this site: Bolivia Travel Site

... of rolling yellow hills and impressive mountains, a few snow capped. We passed the only active volcano in the región...Ollague (i think!), but it was unfortunately covered with clouds. Normally you can see smoke coming out of it! Some cool and huge rocks, some really dodgy roads (had to hike at one point as the road was too bad to carry passengers), and finally to the first lake - Laguna Cañapa. Flamingoes!! It was gorgeous. Stormy, but gorgeous. It wasn't raining on ...

... this is mostly for the parentals. Feb 20-22 Oruro for Carnival Feb 23-27 Get to U and do the 3-4 day tour of solar de uyuni which is the salt desert which takes us into northern chili Feb 27 - March 2 Get from Chili over to the Iguazu Falls on the border of Argentina and Brazil...starting in Chili head over to Salta Argentina and from there stop once before arriving at the Falls - 2 days at the falls ...

... put in a pool last month that they are still working on. It's tryly incredible and all funded by organizations from Europe, so I hear. Tons of kids tho, the older ones are great, they are responsible for looking after the younger ones and making sure that they are studying and everything since there are proabbly only 3 teachers for all of the kids. They are so cute, ali this would break your heart, at the end of the day one little girl Julio defiantely feel asleep in ...