Blogs from Puerto Suárez, Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia, South America - page 2

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Hey everybody! Thats the story about the way toBolivia from my city (São Paulo), i've picked a 22 hours bus from SPaulo to Puerto Quijarro, and then i was supposed to pick up the train to Santa Cruz de La Sierra. But in the lasts days it rained a lot in the region (Pantanal) and then all the trails were under water. Then i had to pick up a taxi to a near village, Yacuses, where i picked a train to Santa Cruz, not "a" train, but "the" train, The Death Train! It was the hottest 26 hours from all my life, but it was very funny because of the views, the people (very poor bolivian people who works in Brazil and were going back to Bolivia) and the very funny children selling all the stuff ... read more
Welcome Bolivia
Our "gas station"
The Death Train


At the airport we had a nice surprise when we found the plane was indeed not stuck together with cellotape, but was a rather modern jet, and the flight turned out to be very pleasant; the sky was clear for most of the time we were in the air and we enjoyed very good views of the Bolivian mountains and jungle. Our destination was Santa Cruz de la Sierra , the second biggest city in Bolivia. The city itself does not have much going for it, people use it mostly as a base to explore the nearby mountains or as a stop-over before moving on to somewhere else. We did spend a couple of days here, doing nothing much apart from resting and eating icecream (we went from being rather cold in Potosí only a few ... read more
Piraí River by Santa Cruz / Río Piraí cerca de Santa Cruz
Local Petrol Station / Gasolinera Local
Yacaré (Caiman), El Pantanal




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