Blogs in April 2020

Along the Inca Road 26th April 2020

In its heyday, the Royal Inca Highway was an extraordinary feat of engineering. Meriting comparisons to the Great Wall of China, legend has it that the route was built not by men, but by the gods. An essential component...

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Ghost Train through the Andes 5th March 2020

It was not until long after his grandmother, Sophie, had died that Michael Jacobs was eventually permitted to read the lengthy and passionate letters that his grandfather Bethel had written her from nine thousand miles away. In these letters,...

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The Fat Man from La Paz 3rd March 2020

The twenty stories collected in this volume offer not only a comprehensive look at the variety and invention of Bolivian literature, but also provide more information about the heart and soul of Bolivia than a warehouse full of news...

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Lost in the Jungle: A Harrowing True Story of Survival 14th February 2020

Four travelers meet in Bolivia and set off into the heart of the Amazon rainforest, but what begins as a dream adventure quickly deteriorates into a dangerous nightmare, and after weeks of wandering in the dense undergrowth, the four...

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Andreo’s Race 14th February 2020

Just as sixteen year old Andreo, skilled in death-defying ironman events, is about to compete in rugged Bolivia, he and his friend Raul (another Bolivian adoptee) begin to suspect that their adoptive parents have -unwittingly – acquired them illegally....

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