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April 7, 2006
Flowers and Insects of Cochabamba
While at the orphanage, I saw some flowers that I wanted to take photos of. When some of the younger children saw me taking these photos, they suddenly started coming to me with flowers plucked out of the field. Instead, I told them to…
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April 7, 2006
Sick in Santa Cruz
The First Day On Saturday I arrive in Santa Cruz. The directions that I had been given to determine when to ask the bus driver to stop were very good. However I was not dropped off until almost 2 kms further down the road. During the night…
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April 7, 2006
Church in the Plaza – Cochabamba
It was only one day that I was able to spend at the orphanage, and by the evening of that day I had returned to the church where I would stay the night before leaving early the next day for La Paz.
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April 6, 2006
Leaving Entre Rios
We arrived back just after 6pm and drove straight to the bus ticket vendors. The first place we visited had a bus leaving at 7pm. The second one had their bus being loaded as we arrived, and ready to leave almost immediately. That was the…
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April 6, 2006
Stranded by Transport Strikes
It was yesterday that I was planning on leaving Tarija. Today I am still here. I missed my bus by only 10 minutes. But that may have been a very good thing.
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April 6, 2006
Chiquicamata Open Cut Mine
Our visit to the Chiquicamata mine, the worlds largest open cut mine, was a little confused. We arrived late for the tour according to the faithful guide book for travellers, The Lonely Planet. It was the latest book for this area of the…
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April 5, 2006
Visiting the Las Lomas Community
I was planning on getting the 6pm bus out of Entre Rios to Tarija. It was already 5pm and the flooding had reduced enough to allow the buses to start travelling the route again so there was a good chance I would make it.
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April 5, 2006
Bus to Cochabamba
I have just arrived in Cochabamba after a 17hr bus trip that should have been 9hrs and it cost me (and everyone else) 100 Bolivianos instead of the normal season price of 30 Bs. Yowch.
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April 3, 2006
A Country Church Service – Entre Rios
On my last day in Entre Rios, after the plumbing had been fixed and the leadership training had finished, we all climbed into a couple of cars and headed out to a small church in the country to celebrate together.
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April 3, 2006
Targeting of Tourists in Bolivia
A new warning for tourists in Bolivia has just arrived telling of how gangs using fake clothing and identification of police are robbing tourists, especially in the La Paz region. This sort of event is not new and has been happening for…
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