Cochabamba

This weekend my family and i went to Cochabamba (or just outside of Cochabamba im not exactly sure where it was) for my grandfathers 65th birthday.  the road getting there was interesting to say the least.  driving out there i got to see a different side of Bolivia.  Santa Cruz seems poorer than the US and you might say is poor but then you see the smaller towns and its like a different world.  Its basically what you think of when you think of a third world country.  there were like random cows and chickens and pigs roaming around the roads and there were like poorly made homes and very run down estates. Many of the people had street side vending stations selling fruits and such.  It was very poverty stricken.  But once you got out of the towns and into the mountains it was beautiful but the roads got more...adventurous.  The driver aka my dad didnt understand that you could go slow.. or slow down before the huge pothole.  so there was a lot of jerking and flying around in the car.  but the road was half dirt half paved there were patches of paved and patches of dirt road.  HUUUGGEE potholes (worse than nicoles driveway) there were cows and donkeys along the road and it was rather narrow.. and we still managed to pass every car we came upon.  once we got off the main road it got worse.  it was really narrow and all dirt road and huge incline and there were signs all over saying “loose rocks, watch out they will fall on your car” and the signs wernt joking because there was fallen rock all over the place, and if it was at all possible this had more curves and larger potholes than the other road.  But once we got to the resort it was well worth the drive.  

The food at the resort was fantastic, but what really stood out was the juice.  It was the best juice that i have ever had in my entire life and there were so many different kinds. there was pineapple, strawberry, passionfruit, lemonade, orange, peach. words cannot express how good this juice was.  i would go back there just for the juice.  Any how it was suppper beautiful there.  Theres a cute little pond/lake right near the hotel and in the distance there is mountains.  We went on a walk/hike in the mountains because thats about all there is to do there besides golf. it was amazing it was very fun really beautiful super windy and a little bit dangerous.  Ok so maybe more than a little dangerous.  We hiked up to the top of the mountain and it was fairly steep so its kinda like one wrong step and your tumbling down the mountain.  But im fine im good and it was defiantly worth the hike.  You have to look at the pictures for this one. im not a good enough writer to describe this.  But all in all it was a very tranquil, calm place you just kinda have to sit back and chill, because there is really nothing else to do except for enjoy the view.