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South America » Bolivia » Santa Cruz Department » San Xavier November 25th 2008

Y... por fin en Bolivia, en plena Bolivia, bueno, ya no tanto porque andamos por el oriente, por la zona llamada de las Misiones. Atrás, en tan sólo una semana, ha quedado atrás Sajama y su parque nacional, justo al cruzar la frontera con chile, atrás han quedado los volcanes, las llamas, el altiplano que tanto y tanto nos ha hecho sufrir con su frío, sus 5.000 m., con el soroche terrible: dolores de cabeza, náuseas y mecheros que explotaban mientras veíamos como la botella de agua se comprimía o ensanchaba según ascendíamos o descendíamos. LLegamos también a Cochabamba, con su enorme mercado lleno de todo lo imposible de imaginar, fetos de llama colgados, ofrendas para la pachamama, zapateros en una esquina, plásticos, lanas, chompas, comida, animales encerrados en jaulas... y un sin fin de cosas ... read more
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parque nacional Sajama, Bolivia
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South America » Bolivia » Santa Cruz Department » San Xavier October 15th 2007

Hola a todo el mundo, acabamos de venir de San Javier y Concepcion, dos de las antiguas misiones jesuitas fundadas alla por el siglo 16 y mantenidas hasta que los Jesuitas fueron expulsados durante el reinado de Carlos III. Quien haya visto la pelicula de La Mision sabra un poco mas de estas misiones de Los Jesuitas. Ha sido una visita muy interesante ya que ha coincidido con el festival de la orquidia. En Bolivia hay unas 700 especies autoctonas de orquidias de las 7000 que hay en todo el mundo. Ahora vamos de camino hacia Samaipata y Vallegrande (donde mataron a El Che) que estan al sur de Bolivia, ya os mantedremos informados. Hy Everybody, we´ve just arrived from San Javier and Concepcion, two of the former Jesuit Missions founded on the 16th century ... read more
Interior de la iglesia de La Concepcion
Fachada de La Mision de La Concepcion
Pilar en La Mision de La Concepcion


On leaving Sucre and the Toledo family we cycled 5 days through the hilly central region of Bolivia to Cochabamba. At first the scenery was quite similar to that which we had cycled through from Potosi to Sucre that is to say, fairly dry valleys where locals scrape a living growing what they can in the not very fertile soil. It must be very hard work cultivating the land here especially as the land is rarely flat and almost everything is done by hand. We marvelled at the cultivated plots of land at impossible angles on the sides of the steep hillsides as we passed by. At the end of the first day cycling we slept in a small roadside restaurant in a very dusty depressing room on a couple of typical Bolivian bumpy straw ... read more
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South America » Bolivia » Santa Cruz Department » San Xavier December 25th 2006

Last august we (my wife and me), while visiting this beautiful country, called on tour operator Ruta Verde as to organize a tour to the Jesuits Missions region, east of Santa Cruz. I knew the Missions for having visited the place in 2002. During that trip I had met a man in Santa Anna who told me that there were some descendants of Alcide d'Orbigny in the area. D'Orbigny (1802-1857) was a very important French scientist, father of the micropaleontology, and had been sent by the Paris Muséeum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Southern America as to make a complete inventory of the natural resources of this continent. He spent 8 years of his life (1826-1833) visiting Brazil , Argentina , Chile and Bolivia where he stayed 3 years, riding his mule from west to east and ... read more


As you may have noticed I've been a bit busy exploring the sites to update my blog recently...sure you all understand being busy with life relocating to new lands and jobs then there are those of you with young ones, exisitng wonder, just arrived and to come in the near future! Congrats to all the new additions to our many friends families - enjoy the young curious people and characters they are! After our adventure in the forest we took a day off to write, rest and see a bit more of Santa Cruz. Planning to visit the nearest of the Jesuit missions: San Javier and Concepcion. An other day trip! we bought our tickets at the bus station and got on board for our journey to San Javier. Pretty much the whole day went off ... read more
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San Javier bell tower
baroqe mestizo art




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