 | 700 Bolivianos damn well spent !
2008-07-12, Uyuni, Bolivia. By: cbr600f | | Hi everyone ! Well, I'm actually in Chile now but to catch you up on my last few days in Bolivia ...
One of the main reasons I went to Bolivia was to do a tour of the Salt Flats of Uyuni, I saw a p... |
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 | Where's all the oxygen gone ??!
2008-07-08, La Paz, Bolivia. By: cbr600f | | OMG, I can't breathe !! Here I am in La Paz, squillions of metres above sea level, actually when I got here I thought, "hey, this isn't so bad" ...but then I started actually walking. Bloody hell.
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| Hey !! I'm in Bolivia !
2008-07-06, Isla del Sol, Bolivia. By: cbr600f | | Although my location has me marked down as being on the Isla del Sol I am actually in Copacabana which is on the shore of Lake Titicaca. Near the Isla anyway !
So, as promised I have had no major a... |
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 | Work and nothing else
2008-06-23, Mairana, Bolivia. By: brooksyo | | Hello people. It´s definitely been a while, but I have found free internet in my site and it’s pretty fast. I only told myself that I would use it when I am doing work for the schools. I am right n... |
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| I'm doing well.
2008-05-19, Mairana, Bolivia. By: brooksyo | | Hey Everyone. I'm doing good in my site. I am so busy. Right now I am designing a basic personal finance cirriculum for high school students. It's almost done. Then after that, I'm designing a ga... |
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| My site visit
2008-04-03, Mairana, Bolivia. By: brooksyo | | Hello everyone from the sleepy town of Mairana, Santa Cruz, Bolivia, which will be my new home for two years. It is on the highway between two large cities, Santa Cruz and Cochabamba. There are abou... |
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| It's been awhile...
2008-02-26, Cochabamba, Bolivia. By: brooksyo | | Hello everyone. It has definitely been awhile. I yet again have been busy with training things. We just got back from our week long technical trip to southern Bolivia. It was HOT HOT HOT. I can o... |
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| My weekly update
2008-02-20, Cochabamba, Bolivia. By: brooksyo | | First and foremost, my apologies to everyone for not keeping you guys up-to-date with Peace Corps Bolivia. I have been here for a little more than two weeks, but it feels like a month. Training is p... |
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| I'm still alive.
2008-02-16, Cochabamba, Bolivia. By: brooksyo | | Hey guys, I have been really busy with training these past two weeks. It's hard to write long entries because i have to plan ahead and write them and then get into the city to find an internet cafe. ... |
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| Food in Bolivia
2008-02-08, Cochabamba, Bolivia. By: brooksyo | | So I have been pretty lucky in the fact that I haven't gotten sick from the food in Bolivia. However, that doesn't mean that the food is good. So when we first got here, we were told that women tend... |
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 | Wet t-shirts and fake snow
2008-02-02, Oruro, Bolivia. By: juliac | | A 3am start this morning, as we set off to the carnival at Oruro, which is supposed to be the best carnival in this region of Bolivia. I{m not quite clear why the carvivals happen now - it being 2nd F... |
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 | Dried llama foetus and other delicacies
2008-01-31, La Paz, Bolivia. By: juliac | | We left Copacabana on Thursday morning, to head to La Paz. This involved an interesting river crossing, where we had to get off the bus and get a little launch boat across while the bus crossed the ri... |
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| Carnaval
2008-02-05, Cochabamba, Bolivia. By: brooksyo | | So the past few days have been pretty slow because of the holiday, Carnaval, which is like Mardi Gras. Here they like to throw water ballons and shoot people with water guns. I have only been shot a... |
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| Hippie hangout
2008-01-28, Copacabana, Bolivia. By: juliac | | I celebrated my birthday in 2 different countries, waking up in Puno in Peru and going to bed in Copacabana, Bolivia! We set off on the morning of my birthday (which is Pete´s too, so double celebrati... |
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| I have arrived!
2008-01-30, Cochabamba, Bolivia. By: brooksyo | | Hello everyone! I am alive and kicking in Cochabamba, Bolivia. That is in the mountains of central Bolivia. Bolivia is the size of Texas and California put together, so that is a lot of land mass t... |
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 | Many a true word...........
2007-05-30, Uyuni, Bolivia. By: rossycaz | | We´re now in Uyuni after a 6 hour bus journey through some very dramatic and rugged countryside.
We chose the bus company as they had the smartest vehicle parked outside their office (all the othe... |
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 | Down jacket required.
2007-05-28, Potosi, Bolivia. By: rossycaz | | We´ve spent the last couple of nights here in Potosi which has a number of claims to fame: it´s the world´s highest city - 4090m, it has the world´s highest commercial airport, had the first mint in t... |
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 | No, really. They ARE footprints!
2007-05-25, Sucre, Bolivia. By: rossycaz | | For the past 6 days we´ve been staying in Sucre, the Judicial Capital of Bolivia, after enduring a nightmare 14 hour overnight bus journey from La Paz. Why nightmare? Firstly, it was supposed to be a... |
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 | Where´d they come from???????
2007-05-18, La Paz, Bolivia. By: rossycaz | | A 3 - 4 hour bus journey yesterday from Copacabana and here we are in La Paz, the governmental capital of Bolivia and the highest capital in the world (3600m) and don´t our lungs know it! We´re stayi... |
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 | Worth every dollar
2007-05-14, Copacabana, Bolivia. By: rossycaz | | Yesterday we took a boat to Isla del Sol, believed by the Incas to be the birthplace of the sun god. Once again, no cars on this island, just donkey power and Shank's pony!
We were led to the host... |
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 | No thongs here!
2007-05-12, Copacabana, Bolivia. By: rossycaz | | Last night we stayed in hostal that, on the surface, looked adequate. Unfortunately, quite how the people who ran the place felt that shouting at each other and moving furniture about at 3am contribut... |
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 | WMDR
2007-03-13, La Paz, Bolivia. By: vorn | | la paz is a crazy city where every street is a market. despite that i could not find one cobbler to fix my boots which have had a bit of a blowout, because apparently the soles are too big. surely som... |
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 | dynamite holding
2007-03-10, potosi, Bolivia. By: vorn | | potosi is the highest city in the world at 4100m and just walking up a hill can have you panting. we dropped in here to check out the silver mines which i was a bit dubious about being a bit claustrop... |
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