Rio de Janeiro, entering Bolivia

Time for another blog, even though I don´t even really want to write now. Does any body even read these things?

Any way, we just arrived to Santa Cruz, Bolivia after traveling on a train called the Expreso del Oriente (the infamous Death Train). It cost like 15 dollars and it was a trip of about 23 hours. Ya, I didn´t sleep much, nor have I bathed or had a clean pair of clohtes on my back since Rio de Janiero, which if you´ll look on a map is quite a good distance. But enough about facts of my personal higiene. We had an interesting time in Rio de Janiero. The first day we got there we looked for a hostel and found a reletively good one. We dropped our bags off and headed straight for the beach, to say the least we were dissapointed at what we saw, which was a clouded over sky and not very big waves. So we snapped some shots and headed back for the hostel. The next day we were able to go do a small hike up a mountain called Pao de acucar. After that we were able to go see the famous Cristo Redentor statue. It was pretty cool. The next day we got on a bus of which we thought was going to take us to Bolivia. But when we arrived at the boarder, the imagrations office was closed so we decided to find a hostel in the little boarder city called Corumbá, what was funny was there were only about 10 of us that got off the bus, the rest of the people enterded Bolivia ilegally. The next day we woke up to go get our stamp to exit Brazil, and then caught a bus to the boarder. Once getting off the bus we were paraded by taxi drivers screaming at us to pick them. They were all like 2 dollars to take us to the first city in Bolivia were we needed to catch the train. So we entered Bolivia legaly, praise the Lord, and were able to find a train that left about a half an hour later. We paid around 15 dollars for it and rode it until here. Tonight we are heading out to Cochabamba to see a friend, also we will hopefully be able to see another friend that is actually working out in the jungle right now. After this we will be off to La Paz to pick up Leighton´s parents and then off to spend a few days around the Lake Titicaca. Then we will be headed to do the Inca Trail until arriving to the Machu Pichu ruins. That´s right Leighton´s parents will be doing the trail with us, it should be very interesting.

I know, tell me about it, I have a boring life. Who ever reads this let me know whats up with you!