If you are reading this now, chances are you’re interested in nonprofit or development work in Latin America. You may actually already be teaching English in Colombia, or working in a national park in Costa Rica, or completing your first year of the Peace Corps in Chile. And if that’s th[...]
Archive for the ‘Bolivia’ Category
July 15th, 2011 - 9:48 am § in Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Looking for Opportunity, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela
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June 21st, 2011 - 6:01 am § in Around Town, Bolivia
Getting to Chile; remarkably less Chilly
Our truck driver, who had not said more than 50 words to us in the last three days, finally got the Jeep started. We clamored in, our hair still wet and starting to freeze, but our bodies thankful for having gotten into the hot spring after three days of cold. We drove to the edge of [...][...]
June 20th, 2011 - 5:25 am § in Bolivia, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Nonprofit Spotlight, Volunteer Spotlight
Quetzaltrekkers: Into the Clouds, Part 1
Three-thousand three-hundred feet below the mountaintop we will summit tomorrow morning, I sit in a small one-room house on a wooden chair fit for a person of childlike proportions. The house is lit by a single candle. The faces of my co-guide and our clients are illuminated by the flame’s orange [...]
Blog Action Day, 2010: Water – How to Reach Eight Glasses a Day
This post is in honor of Blog Action Day today. Latin America contains 26% of the world’s water resources and hosts 6% of the world’s population. This means a lot; this means little. Unequal water distribution is not just spatial. It is temporal, through cycles of drought and flood. It [...]
Dueling Realities
Patrick Furlong attended Loyola Marymount University, where he was the co-founder of a popular service organization called Magis. As graduation neared, he became a bit too obsessed with Peace Corps infomercials asking how far he would go to answer life’s calling and before he knew it, found h[...]
Part 2: The Ins and Outs of Traveling Bolivia
This is Part II of Lindsey’s traveling in Peru and Bolivia series. Someone at Loki Hostel in Cuzco recommended the bus company Litoral for the trip from Cuzco to La Paz. Unfortunately, sometimes even with recommendations you have to do your own research. I should have been alerted when the bu[...]
Part I: Traveling Peru, Lonely Planet Style
Traveling South America can be overwhelming because you have to be ready for anything. Flexibility is key. Prepare yourself for broken down buses with no heat, no means of communication, shady bargain prices, and cross your fingers for relatively smooth, low hassle travel. I flew one-way from Santia[...]
