Santa Cruz de la Sierra

I was having some blue days in La Paz so I decided to travel to Santa Cruz, east side of Bolivia, near to the border with Brazil. I stayed in the house of my uncle in an area called Barrio Lindo, and it’s no joke the place was really beautiful. My uncle’s house was big and it had a garden with fruit trees, although it was in renovation it still looked nice.

It was so relaxing to travel alone again, I needed some time out of the city. I also enjoyed the hot and sunny weather of Santa Cruz  instead of the cloudy and rainy one we’ve been having in La Paz. 

I spend sometime with my uncle and my cousin Graciela, however I was mostly wondering around alone. I love traveling and discovering places on my own, so I took my bag and went. I felt free and alive again, I was happy. 
I found the people in Santa Cruz very kind and helpful, almost every time I got out I would meet new people and make friends with them. I guess it’s true that people in warm places have a warmer heart. I also fell in love with all the green color I could see everywhere the streets, parks, houses they were full of trees and flowers, everything was green.
I ended up staying one night at a hostel called Jodanga, it was definitely a good choice. I met a bunch of new people and even found my lost and found sister!  Actually she was a girl half bolivian and half new zealander who looked like me and people thought we were sisters. Anyways I ended up going dancing with my new friends. We went to dance salsa, we drank tequila and I even found my self dancing in a local gay bar, I had such a blast with these guys!

I mainly used my disposable camera on this trip, so there are not a lot of pictures.

On the way back I decided to take a bus instead of flying to La Paz. I've never travelled alone such a long way by bus and I used to hate traveling on the road, but I don't anymore.

The trip was almost 18 hours, though lucky for me the driver was crazy and drove the route in only 14 hrs! I took the night bus so it didn't feel a long way because I slept most of the time. Though I woke up in the midnight to see a beautiful landscape. Of course it was dark, but I had my window open, the wind was blowing gently on my face and I saw millions of stars in the black sky, I felt it almost magical. 

Further away from the city the bus stopped in a little town where people were waiting in their little food stands for the travelers to come to eat, I thought it was a very interesting and at the same time with the lights a very beautiful scene.