After Bonno´s birthday it rained and rained for weeks. It got quite cold especially as houses here are not equipped with central heating or tumble driers. The east of Bolivia, which is the lower part, was and is particularly badly hit and many thousands of people are made homeless, crops and livestock destroyed. During this time we stayed mainly at home and worked on our various projects. One weekend we ventured out to Cochabamba for site seeing and work, and got stuck various times as the night bus came to a standstill. In several places avalances of mud and stone had come down the mountain slopes completely blocking the road. This is a major problem in Bolivia of which a large part is mountaineous with altitudes ranging from 300 to 5000m above sea level. Roads are unlikely to last more than five years. As a taxi driver commented: "You need to have God on your side to travel during the rainy season".
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