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Cochabamba, we love you!

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May 27th 2010
The bus unbelievably made it in early to Cochabamba (I thought everything was always late in South America?), at 5am, which was not what we wanted as we couldn’t go to the hostel till about 7am, so we had a 2 hour wait in the terminal. It was actually quite an interesting few hours as we people watched the whole time. The place was absolutely rampacked, even at that hour, and we saw crazy thin ... read more

South America » Bolivia » Cochabamba Department » Cochabamba

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Bolivia, named after independence fighter Simon BOLIVAR, broke away from Spanish rule in 1825; much of its subsequent history has consisted of a series of nearly 200 coups and counter-coups. Comparatively democratic civilian rule was established in 1... ... read more