Santa Cruz Travel Blogs

Yesterday I spent a quiet night and went to bed early, because I knew that this day would start early and might be long. I asked for a wake up call at 4:00 am, so I could finish packing, take a shower, do the check out, take a cup of coffe and be ready by the time the taxi came for us at the hotel…

Taking advantage of the heat in Santa Cruz de la Sierra - Aqualand                   The second day in Santa Cruz was the opportunity to take advantage of the water park called “Aqualand” which is located in …

what a surprise... i'm stuck in bolivia! a country that welcomes you with flat tires and inefficiencies everywhere surely won't let you leave smoothly on a sleeper train the wetlands between santa cruz and the brazilian border are flooded; trains cannot operate and buses take about 24 hours on th…

Well I have quickly become attuned to the bumpy roads of Bolivia which is not limited to the roads but the railway system as well! We caught the 20 hour death train or as it is known to the locals ´the bumpy train´ from the border of Brazil to the interior of Bolivia, to the city of San…

After a very, very long journey from the Park, we arrived back in Santa Cruz, accompanied by 4 of our jungle buddies, Timo a Dutch bloke, and 3 Aussie gals, Bec, Lucy and Alex. We went to Jodanga hostel together and ordered in pizza followed by crashing out exhausted. It was very odd and a little u…

I decided to return back to Santa Cruz in time for the train ride to Yacuiba on the Argentina border. Trains leave every Tuesday and Thurday at 15.30 from the Bi-Modal station. http://www.boliviaentusmanos.com/trenes-bolivia/f_oriental.php There are three different classes on the train, I tri…

good times

Perú, Bolivia, Paraguay, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina and Chile... ...I across South America alone with my Diary

Santa Cruz is the capital of the biggest and richest province of Bolivia. I landed here, a man from the NGO I worked picked me up and take me to the train station without any delay and relax. The I took a train to Puerto Suarez, where I arrived 24 hours and, only, 600 km later. (There is a train in…

as a tousands travellers also me decided to cross this marvelous continenet... so big that in three months i didnt get inside so much and i tried :)

I will be traveling to Cochabamba, Bolivia to volunteer in a "centro de salud" for 1 month this summer. I'm really looking forward to it as I loved my first trip to South America last year.

A las 5 am nos pasaron a buscar al hotel donde nos habian llevado. Llegamos al aeropuerto donde supuetamente nuestro vuelo partiria 6.15. Esperando nos informan que por niebla nuestro avion no pudo aterrizar y tubo que hacer escala en Cali. A seguir esperando. Finalmente partimos al fin de Bogota…

Getting there is never my favourite part. This flight schedule was the most unpleasant I’ve had so far. It took 26 hours to Santa Cruz. Worst part: No smoking at all. We went from Schiphol to Frankfurt, from there to Sao Paulo where we had to wait for 4.5 hours on to Santa Cruz with a short sto…

Map and some photos of my second trip around South America. Blogs coming soon! Argentina - Uruguay - Paraguay - Bolivia - Chile - Patagonia

This is an itinerary of our trip around the world and does not include any journal entries.