I actually got food poisoning from a late-night street hamburger my last night in Oruro. I woke up a couple hours after going to sleep in pure barfing rage (sorry for the pretty picture). Made for a really ****** day. I was able to throw myself on a bus to Cochabamba (which I got lucky since everything was just about sold out, bus terminal was j...

After a 6 and a half hour bus ride, a couple of army stops and a lot of bad loud music the bus dropped me off at Villa Tunari. Last night i found this good place in Sta Cruz - good food, nice people and also a good Cuban combo playing some really nice music. As uasual too many Singanis ( local grappa ) and i spent the bus ride with a beautiful h...

Hi all! This week/weekend have been significantly better than last week and weekend. I spent last weekend in the hospital with a throat infection and very dehydrated. But they took good care of me and I am back to 100% and finishing my antibiotics. The hospital was definitely not like those in the states, but it was very nice nonetheless and the...

8 aprile 2007 E' la domenica di Pasqua. Con la famiglia di Riccardo sto trascorrendo alcuni giorni a Cochabamba. Così si presenta una buona occasione per camminare un pò in montagna. Posso, infatti, salire sul Cerro Tunari, la cima più alta della Bolivia centrale. I suoi pendii si trovano 25 chilometri ad ovest di Cochabamba, all'interno del Par...

Ciao a tutti, il lavoro e' bello freenetico e per questo morivo mi e' difficile aggiornare spesso il blog! Comunque ne vale la pena perche' ho pubblicato sul gionale Los Tiempos ben tre articoli!!! Riguardano tutti un festival di teatro e marionette ma e' stato strafigo farli....e poi tre articoli in una settimana non e' male per niente!!! Se vo...

Piano piano mi ambiento, la citta non sembra piu tanto caotica dopo che ti abitui e la gente si fa di giorno in giorno piu simpatica!!! Oggi ho cominciato il lavoro e vi faro sapere se diventero un importante giornalista boliviano, intanto mi guardo intorno e cerco cosa interessanti da scrivere anche per mandarle a qualche giornale in Italia.......

We stopped of in cool Cochabamba (alt 2500 M) to rest and get used to high altitude. Happy halloween everyone! Bolivia is already much different from Brazil and Venezuela. The people are all much darker skined (Indigenous roots quite visible) and shorter and chubbier. Old culture is easy to see and even in busy squares you can see old ladies wit...

Arrived by a bumpy 727 flight, at 2550 metres above sea level i guess you are going to get some turbulence! First time i ever entered a plane from the rear, i dont mean the side rear i mean the rear rear!! ;) Cochabamba is a fast city, doesnt look like one but the traffice and people rushing about make it a very fast city, not fast like business...

So I´ve made it to Bolivia! After a 6 hour flight we arrived in La Paz, where one girl passed out from the altitude. I felt a little light headed but that was all. We were only in the La Paz airport for a couple hours and then we took a small plane to Cochabamba. You could see the Andes as we flew over, and since Cochabamba is in a valley when w...

2 weeks in Sucre, one of that lying in a hospital bed, was more than enough. But these Bolivians make it hard to leave. There is a Massive strike of all public transport in Bolivia, so we have had to resort to the truckers to take us north. Tonight, at 5pm, we have a truck, (we being, me and John, my English mate) The massive truck is hauling co...