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Bolivia Experience
This 4-week experience of a lifetime will take you off the beaten track to some of the most unique sights on the planet. Learn the language, live with welcoming indigenous tribes; visit bright red lagoons, seemingly infinite salt flats and the highest city in the world. Regarded by backpackers as the most impressive country to travel in South America- if you don’t get the travel bug here, then you never will!
Programme Age Limit
Minimum 18 years old
Programme Highlights
• Live and work with the Tacana tribe- something few people will ever experience
• Trip to the biggest salt lake in the world!
• Visit to the blood red and emerald green lagoons high in the Andes mountains
• BBQ parties, traditional food cooking lessons and dance lessons
• A visit to Potosí, the highest city in the world with a fascinating & turbulent history
• Journey into the depths of the earth to join the local miners reworking old colonial silver mines! Chuck some dynamite and take cover!
• Volunteer with children from poverty stricken backgrounds Programme Support
Throughout your experience you will have the support and guidance of your in-country coordinator and their team.
You will be provided with competent assistance and help with any questions or advice you may need during your stay.
In addition you will have access to a UK 24 hour emergency contact number.
Programme Orientation
At the start of the programme you will have a comprehensive orientation meeting. This will cover all essential topics such as banks and money, transport, places to see, safety precautions and work ethics.
Accommodation and Meals
Week One: Spanish Language School
You have the choice between staying with a host family or at a student residence (see below).
• Host Family: you will have a private bedroom and a shared bathroom. Breakfast and lunch will be with your host family, dinner will be a snack at a local cafe. Remember the main meal in Bolivia is lunch! Laundry service once a week. Week Two: Volunteer work in Sucre
• Student residence: shared bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, living-dining room, cable TV and a garden. No breakfast or lunch included but you will be provided with a snack at dinnertime. Week Three: Adventure Week
Accommodation will be in small, basic lodges. Rooms will be based on 6 people sharing and have a shared bathroom.
Week Four: Community Volunteer
• Two nights at a simple hotel (pre and post community stay).
• 6 days in the jungle in simple cabañas made of wood and palm trees. Bathroom will be shared with other students and hotel residents. If you have any further enquiries please do not hesitate to contact the Latin America team on 01892 516164 or e-mail matt.fenton@realgap.co.uk for details.
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