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June 13th 2006

Published: June 14th 2006

Cochabamba, Villa Tunari and Santa Cruz Cochabamba is a bit of a sleepy town - not a whole lot to do - we where mainly there in hopes of visiting the boys orphanage that Sean volunteered at five years ago but to no avail. They gave us a number and asked us to call back to see if we'd been authorized to visit the boys home. The post is vacant and no one seems to want to authorise (take responsi... Read Full Entry

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itsy, bitsy spider uh NOT

Bat cave...

see´m above our heeads?

barF...

Jose is showing us what the Bats throw-up (seeds) once they've 'eaten' their fruit - the little black one he's pointing our actually looks like a tiny skull!

death by parasite

Jose is showing pointing to the only bit of original tree still visible that is being 'strangled' by this vine parasite - massive tree too

hangin by a rope

when we got back to the cage to cross the river it was - dead center - but all the guides are prepared to hoist themselves across ... all in a days work!

captured in 2002 and he's not looking to happy about it - he paced around his relatively small abode then would charge at us on-lookers every so often. Not a happy camper...

Tucan talking

a lot of the phone booths in Santa Cruz are some form of wildlife

diablo

folklorico museo

GOOOOAAAAL!

not really otherwise no one would be sitting but FUTBOL Fever has hit, big time!

Avion

but who's the guy in overalls?

14th June 2006

dannyboy
Daniel

Prado
If you're in Cochabamba, there are lots of cool places on the Prado...

17th June 2006

Maureen Blair
non-member comment

Going Batty
Hi Sean and Esther, I have to say you both looked a bit worried in the vampire bat cave. I liked the "guinness" phone booth Sean. Love M

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