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Thu, 18 Apr 2013 | By dharmabum | Views [294] | Comments [1] | Scholarship Entry
Our petrified faces were still pressed against the damp, roughly-plastered walls; our hands out-stretched above our trembling heads. We could taste the salty beads of sweat running down our faces as the machine guns smiled menacingly at our backs. Just ... Read more >
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Thu, 18 Apr 2013 | By heatherdonkers | Views [224] | Scholarship Entry
A dusty work site and sweat on his brow didn’t stop him from noticing me, vigorously scrubbing the walls inside the new classroom across the way. The seventeen year old boy approached me with a reluctance that I learned to be characteristic of shy Bolivians, ... Read more >
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Thu, 18 Apr 2013 | By kristoff | Views [239] | Scholarship Entry
I left the jungle town of Rurrenabaque, heading north through the Bolivian amazon with my guide, El Nino, and Milena, a plant biologist from Argentina. Our goal was to find the legendary jungle guide, hunter and fisherman ‘Choco Mano’, but he lived in ... Read more >
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Tue, 16 Apr 2013 | By wanderlustkiera | Views [399] | Comments [2] | Scholarship Entry
The other animals peered down calmly as they were familiar with human presence. Our paws touched momentarily before the understanding of our differences came into focus. Two worlds living side by side both keeping hold of their values. In the progressive ... Read more >
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Tue, 9 Apr 2013 | By bec_bruce | Views [345] | Scholarship Entry
Nothing says “welcome to my home” more than a bloody pig head, hanging on a large hook, outside your bedroom door. It was the first thing I noticed on entering the courtyard of the house I was staying for the night. I took a mental note not to bump ... Read more >
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Tue, 9 Apr 2013 | By bec_bruce | Views [376]
Nothing says “welcome to my home” more than a bloody pig head, hanging idly on a large hook, outside your bedroom door. It was the first thing I noticed upon entering the courtyard of the house I was staying for the night. I took ... Read more >
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Wed, 3 Apr 2013 | By dipperstravels | Views [281]
Thu 28 Mar
We took a morning tour of an underground working mine to get a feel of the terrible and claustrophobic conditions under which miners still work today. It is also traditional to take gifts to the miners, consisting of dynamite (!), ... Read more >
Tue, 2 Apr 2013 | By jesjesco | Views [305]
We purchased the last two seats on the last tourist bus of the day into Bolivia – and at a 10 soles discount on the price just by asking (because clearly you should never accept the first price). I’d heard about many difficulties at the border, ... Read more >
Tue, 2 Apr 2013 | By jesjesco | Photo Gallery
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Wed, 27 Mar 2013 | By spiedix84 | Views [332] | Scholarship Entry
The engine noise is deafening, the smell of diesel unbearable. Again, I'm the only foreigner. When we fill the form for the police security check, before to leave, my country, Italy, stands out in the list of quotes that avoid repeating the first and ... Read more >
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Sun, 17 Feb 2013 | By danalee | Views [439]
I never thought in my wildest dreams I would go to a Carnival. Much less one as crazy as this one.
Our journey there was just so…Bolivian. Of course I met up with Wendy (Bolivian girl I met through Oliver’s) over an ... Read more >
Sun, 17 Feb 2013 | By danalee | Photo Gallery
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Thu, 17 Jan 2013 | By mantis | Views [249]
Crossing across Bolivia was going to be just an step to go to Buenos Aires Argentina our final destination, but since the very first look you could see that its going to be a lot more there than just an step. beginning with saws of the Titicaca lake, ... Read more >
Thu, 17 Jan 2013 | By mantis | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry
Since I have memory i always be surrender by cameras, my father was a fan, and since i was little a have my own, i feel diferent when a camera its in my hands, a lot o people without really know me, can notice that, and tell me, that its very amazing ...
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Mon, 14 Jan 2013 | By travelcrazy26 | Views [983]
Bolivia! So I felt spontaneous and decided to make my way up north. I have been traveling the whole time with an Israeli guy I met at the hostel in Salta. We took the night bus to La Qiaca, were dropped off around 6am in the dark without a clue. We followed ... Read more >
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