Yotau All Suite Hotel Santa Cruz

<br><br><br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br><br>3rd november 2009<br>Hotel Amazonias, Santa Cruz, Bolivia<br>(140 Bs)<br>A tad cooler than of late<br><br>And so back to civilisation - Santa<br>Cruz, it's hot, sticky and today, very windy indeed. We arrived on<br>Sunday which also happened to be a holiday, All Saints and day of the<br>dead, which would explain the hoo hah going on at a couple of large<br>cemetries on the way into Santa Cruz. Monday was also a holiday, so<br ...

... br><br>My first task was `Herbie, Bambie and Rudolfo` - prepping the food and feeding a large tapir and 2 small deer. Seemed like an easy start to get acquainted to animals, especially as these three lacked big sharp teeth. That was until Marcelo explained what to do...and showed me several deep puncture woulds inflicted by the deer when they mauled him the previous week. I now was more scared of the 2 deer than of Carlos! <br> <br>Carlos, by comparison, was a pussycat. I ...

... out... For the first time on my trip I saw free toilet paper. The bathroom actually had a toilet seat embedded into the toilet. And did i mention they have hot pressured showers, i was in heaven for the first time in my trip. There were about 180 gringos from all around the world. A bar and restaurant, including on service laundry. A pool table, but don't even get me started on that. All packed inside this giant beautifully decorated ...

I have arrived. Getting here was relatively painless and even after two days I still don't feel like I'm really here. I'm certain I'm still waiting for the realization of what this summer entailed to sink in. Who knows how long that will take... <br>Today the other newbies and I had a chance to visit the campus of my future workplace, Santa Cruz Cooperative School. I had the most wonderful ...

... 35. So we had to leave Tres Lagoas at 18:00. That meant waking up at 16:30, which is the middle of the night for us (with working night shift). The drive took about 4 hours, even though the driver was getting up to 130km/h when there wasn't traffic slowing us down. I can only imagine how long it would have taken if the driver didn't ever go past the speed limit of 80km/h! So check-in at the airport with GOL was no problem ...

... Bolivia and already got rid of all your Bolivianos, you will have to withdraw more to pay for your cab and possibly another airport departure tax. I got a quick peek at Santa Cruz from the air and from my cab. It is the largest city in Bolivia.

... the Chaco route to Sta. Cruz. In Santa Cruz, I found a wonderful hostel with a beautiful open patio, with banana trees growing, with real bananas! Two pet toucans roamed the place, really adding atmosphere to it. The temperature was more temperate than what I had been used to, and was a wonderful relief. I found a restaurant that had pastries and ice cream to die for! I ate there almost everyday, but did enjoy ...

Hola, apologies for another blog entry so soon after the last MEGA blog but I was compelled to write about the 2 experiences I've had since last time! Machupicchu photos here Main album here The Inka trail One of the many things i´ve been looking forward to on this trip is of course walking the Inka trail. 46KM of serious terrain spread over 4 days from KM82 in Ollantaytambo to Machupicchu. We started off by arriving into Cusco a few days early to ...

On Sunday we left Sucre and flew to Santa Cruz. Unfortunately by the time we arrived nearly everything had shut except for the supermarket. However we did manage to get to climb up the bell tower of the cathedral to get excellent views over the city. Also there was a big Peruvian festival in the main square so saw many of their traditional dances performed. The next day we took another flight to Puerto Suarez on the Bolivian-Brazilian ...

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