- Although we were told that being vegetarian in Bolivia would be a nightmare, in the last 2 days we´ve discovered 4 seperate vegetarian restaurants in the city. This is quite impressive considering that meat appears to be the norm in most (if not all) meals in Santa Cruz. We´ve also been lucky enough to use the kitchen in our hotel, so there´s been some interesting cooking adventures...- Public transportation are so impressive here! We were a little wary of taking the infamous Micro buses when we first arrived, but our first ride in one proved to be quite the adventure. Each bus has a basic path that it follows, but it stops whenever a request is made, which makes for a bit of a jerky ride. Also, buses run quite regularly...waits are generally around 5 minutes.
- There are very frequent public displays of armed personnel around the city. You don´t have to look far to see guards with pump-action shot guns watching over the neighbourhood family restaurant down the street.
Military police are also a common sight... and today, for some unknown reason, we saw fifteen police with bullet-proof vests and in full riot gear surrounding a peaceful looking school in the middle of the afternoon
Today our hotel is housing about twenty-five uniformed paratroopers for the night. Earlier today, Trevor worried that he might be interrupting some sort of top secret meeting when he attempted to cross the hotel dinning area where many of them were gathered.
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