Today we woke up early in our less than clean hostel and headed to the bus station in hopes to get a bus to Villa Tunari. At the bus station, I have never met so many unfriendly and unhelpful people in one place. All of the signs said they had buses and nobody would sell us a ticket. I don´t know if they were full or not, but it was not helpful. I got frustrated and we went to the minibus station to try and catch one of those.
The mini bus station was a table on a street corner with mini vans and one bus. We paid for a ticket and got in the minivan for the few hour drive to Villa Tunari. Our driver, who I was not overly firendly to at first was a big smelly man. When we got out of the taxi he ran up to us and I thought he wanted to get a commission off of us, so I told him to go away. Well, he ended up being our driver.
Once we were all packed into this mini van, we were off. We finally arrived at Villa Tunari a few hours later and went straigt to the Animal Reserve. Thing had been going to perfect for us that something had to go wrong. It did. We were told that they weren´t sure if we would be able to volunteer because they had so many people. Unfortunately we might be able to be in the jungle building trails. That is not the kind of volunteering I wanted to do. but they said we would have to wait until 5:00 before they knew anything. Our timing was off. 2 weeks ago they were in desperate need and now they had over 60 people. So we went into town and got a much nicer hotel because Bolivia is very inexpensive.
We met another girl from Australia at the animal park who was waiting as well. Sarah did not look thrilled about the whole thing. She knew this was not for her. I really wanted to help, but my hopes were low. We decided that we would go to the park and spend the day tomorrow and decide what we wanted to do.
We hit a bump in the road and our luck had run out.
03/25/2008
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