Bolivia Stories


Copacabana and Isla del Sol

Our journey to Copacabana had an eventful start as we thought a minibus was coming to pick us up at 7:30 am but actually it came at 7:00 am so Steph had a lovely wake up from the porter (I was in the shower) so we quickly packed up and luckily, the whole trip was in a private minibus so it wasn´t too much of a problem! The journey was really pretty ...


Mountain biking the worlds most dangerous road

The evening before our Death Road experience, we met up again with some friends doing a placement in La Paz. They took us to this shopping centre which would have been much more at home in England than Bolivia. There was English food in the supermarket and designer clothes in the shops, I couldn´t beleive many Bolivians could go there. For dinner we ha...


Rurrenabaque

On Wednesday we set off to Rurrenabaque, a town from which you take trips to the rainforest and Pampus (Bolivian flat land - very jungle like). We flew in a plane with only 20 seats and landed on a small grass clearing in a very hot and humid Rurrenabaque. After a very bumpy 3 hour jeep ride early on Thursday morning we arrived at the yacuma river, h...


Sucre

We arrived in Sucre in time for dinner, which we had a lovely cafe near the central plaza. We then headed back to our room, which was absolute luxury. At 10 pounds a night we know we splashed out, but we stayed at a German language school so our room, or should I say suite, had two separate bedroom areas - one for each of us, a private bathroom (with a ...