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  1. April 8, 2006

    Two Days in Sucre

    Upon arriving in Sucre, I called my friend Sonia and was taken to the home of some YWAMers nearby. This was my reason for being here – to work in this home and help the King’s Kids branch of YWAM develop their own web site.

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  2. April 8, 2006

    Four Days in La Paz – A Photo Journal

    Many things happened in La Paz. Serving the homeless with food, helping Mission Adulam with their communication needs, shopping for various items in the crowded markets, and working out my way back and forth from El Alto on top of the hill…

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  3. April 8, 2006

    Photo Visit of Tarija

    Here are another series of photos of the city of Tarija, taken during the first day of the transport strikes.

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  4. April 8, 2006

    A Day in Uyuni Town

    Upon arriving in Uyuni, I started the hunt for a 3 day tour of the Salt Lakes and many other bits and pieces that you can see here. This is my first and only point of being a tourist in Bolivia and is what everybody has told me that I must…

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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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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