Bolivia 2012 2013

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July 13, 2012
Bolivia 2012 2013 Jannik
1 year of Homeland - Bolivia
July 12, 2012 in Bolivia ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
For 10 months i did a voluntary social year in Bolivia in the name of VOLUNTA, a part of the German Red Cross. It was located in the metropolis Santa Cruz de la Sierra. More than 1,4 billions people in one city in the flatlands of Bolivia.Read more
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Home of my Guest Familiy
July 13, 2012 in Bolivia ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C
Condominio "Barcelo" - a gated community for rich people in the north of Santa Cruz de la Sierra. And my homeland for nearby one year in the house of my guest family. Football, basketball and volleyball places just for them, all for free, a disco, swimming pool and a gym for free and much more. All placed close to a beautiful lagoon. A double-edged feeling, if you see all the poverty outside of this area..Read more
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Sucre - The capital of Bolivia
July 16, 2012 in Bolivia ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C
Sucre - We had to spend one or two days in Sucre to get our bolivian visas. But we didn't come in contact with bolivian bureaucracy before. The fact is we stayed in this city for more than 10 days! A lot of time to visit this beautiful city with his beautiful places!

Sucre is a city, which was founded by the spanish conquerors.The historic downtown is completely inspired by spanish architecture. It's located in the lower Andes Mountains.Read more
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Some spanish architecture in Sucre
July 18, 2012 in Bolivia ⋅ ☀️ 13 °C
You can see here some interesting points in Sucre: the tower of the cathedral, the townhall, a castillo and some other buildings inspired by the spanish conquerors. The spanish influence is real big here.Read more
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Some things you can do in Sucre
July 20, 2012 in Bolivia ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
In our ten days we really tried to do a lot in this wondeful city. We walk on the pike of a mountain which sits entrhoned above the city, we went out at night or did some crazy things like bullriding. You also should visit the unique and beautiful cemetery and the peacefull bars at the hills out of the city.

One other thing you have to know: if you have the possibilty to visit the market, go there and try the supertasty fruit shakes! They just costs you 30cents or something like that. And they're really good!Read more
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Sucre - Some bolivian life impressions
July 22, 2012 in Bolivia ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
Some impressions of bolivian life in the Andes. It's really different to a city like Santa Cruz de la Sierra, which is a "modern" western city. Stay just for a while in Sucre, and you gonna love this atmosphere!Read more
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Best bolivian ice cream - La Vaca Fria
August 3, 2012 in Bolivia ⋅ 🌬 29 °C
Just a real small foo(d)print ;-) , but you have to try it! You wont find better ones!
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Schooltime "Británico Santa Cruz"
August 7, 2012 in Bolivia ⋅ 🌬 28 °C
After my german graduation i went back to school in Bolivia for the first 3 months. It was a good place to find my first friends, learn spanish and see how bolivian life is running.
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Chupas - School-organized parties
August 10, 2012 in Bolivia ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
If you are part of the graduationform in a bolivian school, you have to organize parties, called Chupas. They bring money for the graduation ceremony and they are well known in the big cities of Bolivia.Read more
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Oriente vs Blooming
August 27, 2012 in Bolivia ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
Two teams playing in the major league of Bolivia, rivals to death. Madrid vs Barcelona is nothing if you compare it to these bolivian matches. Bolivian people are living football!
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Bolivian Night Life
September 3, 2012 in Bolivia ⋅ ☀️ 34 °C
Going to school there, you will find friends that fast! And if you have friends there, you have to go with them out in every night you're able to! And trust me, going in a club is not that boring like if you go in a german club!Read more
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Flood, precipitated by pluvial phase
September 20, 2012 in Bolivia ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C
You have to realize there was a city with more than one billion people, which was completely flooded! The house of my family has been on a small hill, so it wasn't that bad there. But just imagine how hard it has been at the rest of the city. Or watch these fotos.Read more
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Hanging around at lagoons to Santa Cruz
October 14, 2012 in Bolivia ⋅ ☀️ 32 °C
The footprint is not really located, the photos show more than one location. This here is just one lagoon of thousand you can find close to Santa Cruz. Hanging around there is one of the things you ll do a lot in a voluntary social yearRead more
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Journey P.1 - Tramping
November 15, 2012 in Bolivia ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C
Bolivia has so much different and great things you can find out. People cultures, places and nature, trust me, you'll expand your horizons!

To travel is a real adventure. Dont take your boring guidebook, just throw it away! Look for some friends, and go where ever you want to. Be spontaneous! Hear to other volunteers or people what's worth to visit! So you're able to find all the great places. And for sure, tramping will make it more intensly!

Some words to the roadblock-photo: In Bolivia live many people which are uncontent with the politics of the government. To make some pressure, they block important roads for everyone. That's a huge problem in Bolivia. In a country which is more than 3 times bigger, but just have a population of 12% of Germany, cities are extremely faraway to each other. And normally, there is just one road between. So if a street is blocked, you maybe need to make a detour of 400 kilometres or more.Read more
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Journey P.2 - Villa Tunari
November 16, 2012 in Bolivia ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C
A small village in the outskirts of the Amazonas Area. Pure jungle, hot and sticky weather and tons of mosquitos! But with some nice things you can do/visit!
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Rafting-Tour (Journey P.2)
November 17, 2012 in Bolivia ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C
Nothing special to say, just a nice experience with a really cool guide!

(Rentable in Villa Tunari)
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Journey P.3 - Cochabamba
November 18, 2012 in Bolivia ⋅ ☁️ 24 °C
The fourth-biggest city in Bolivia, located in the low Andean (2300m MSL).
The Jesus-Statue "Christo Redentor" up to the hill is bigger than her famous idol in Rio de Janeiro, you cant believe, true?
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Journey P.4 - Tupiza
November 19, 2012 in Bolivia ⋅ 🌬 28 °C
Just a small village in the south of Bolivia. There rules a dry and hot climate. It's located just 200km away to the Atacama desert, the hottest desert in the world.

And yeah, before you start thinking it's a river on the last photo. it isn't. It's the main street of Tupiza during a heavy rain.Read more
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Horse Riding P.1 (Journey P.4)
November 20, 2012 in Bolivia ⋅ ⛅ 8 °C
A 3-day-during horse-riding-tour with a guide through the unique nature around Tupiza. I call it awesome!
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Horse Riding P.2 (Journey P.4)
November 20, 2012 in Bolivia ⋅ 🌬 31 °C
After some passed kilometers me and my friends met another group of riders. The hard, but awesome day ended in the tiny villiage, where we found a place to rest.
But before going to bed, we climbed a mountain close to sunset. The view was incredible! (first picture)Read more
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Horse Riding P.3 (Journey P.4)
November 21, 2012 in Bolivia ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C
The next day we continued to ride with some aching in the legs. We followed a riverbed and crossed it a few times. At lunchtime we passed "La Torre", a small but really high naturally stone-pillar, which is really impressive. Old railroads brought us back to Tupiza.Read more
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Journey P.5 - Tarija
November 24, 2012 in Bolivia ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
After some days in Tupiza without any green nature, it was a pleasure to spend some time in Tarija. This area is well known for wine and is one of the richer cities in Bolivia. We did some wine tasting and spent some time in bars and clubs. And of course we discover the city for nices places.Read more
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Journey P.6 - Villamontes
November 27, 2012 in Bolivia ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C
Villamontes - our last stop of this journey. We spent just 2 days there, because the average climate is officially the highest one in Bolivia. I remembered how 52 degrees made us sweat like a waterfall. It has been so hot, you couldn't move or go outside of the hotel!Read more
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Rising the Andes!
December 25, 2012 in Bolivia ⋅ 🌙 12 °C
If you wanna visit the west of Bolivia, you'll have to pass the highlands of the Andes. My hometown Santa Cruz de la Sierra in the east is at 300m above sea level. The western cites are higher than 4000m above sea level.Read more
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salt & silver journey p.1 - Potosí
December 26, 2012 in Bolivia ⋅ ⛅ 8 °C
Potosí - once in time one of the biggest cities of the world! More then 90% of the Renaissance silver is coming out of the huge mine in this city, called Cerro Rico. Today this city is in big danger, cause the mine-tunnels undermine the city and bring it to tumble down.

In our times, Potosí is like the rest of bolivian cities: it's poor!Read more
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