Travel tips - Bolivia Video Transcripts
Video 1 Transcript
Okay, I'm going to talk about toilet paper. You should always have some in your backpack or in your bag. The bathrooms in Bolivia sometimes are a little sketchy, and don't be surprised if you can't flush the toilet paper. You have to throw it in a garbage can next to the toilet, and sometimes people miss the toilet. But I found that we couldn't always go back to our house to use the bathroom, and I often had to use sketchy bathrooms here and there, and I was just really grateful that I had my own toilet paper. So I always brought some. Sometimes people don't have bathrooms at all. Once somebody gave my companion a little chamber pot to use, that was their toilet. So anyway, it's always nice to use it in your own apartment, but if you can't, make sure you pack your own TP.
Video 2 Transcript
Make sure that you're always looking up and looking around. Be aware of your surroundings. It's really not that dangerous of a place, but depending on where you're at at night, it could get pretty sketchy. So make sure that you're always aware of where you are. It's humid there, and you wouldn't think that it would be so humid and hot with it being landlocked and you being thousands of miles away from an ocean, but it is super humid as well as there are a lot of mosquitoes there, and there are a few different types of mosquito viruses you can get, like chikungunya and zika. So make sure that you have your bug repellent.
Video 3 Transcript
I never really felt like I was in danger. I mean, obviously you deal with drunks occasionally, but that is more in the outside cities. And within the city, it's fine. The only things you really need to make sure of are keeping your wallet safe in taxis and in groups, and making sure that you're always just kind of looking out.
Video 4 Transcript
Transportation in Bolivia is super fun. It's the best. They have a pretty extensive micro bus system. You can take a micro, which is a bigger bus, or a trufi, which is a smaller bus, and sometimes they have these other little vehicles and of course a lot of taxis. The micros and the trufis, they can pack them pretty well with a lot of people, and I've had situations where I've been virtually hanging outside the bus with several people in front of me, but I would suggest when you do take taxis, if you have a Bolivian companion, let them negotiate the price. They'll get a better price, but after a while you totally get to know what they should charge you and you don't let them get away with charging you more just because you're not Bolivian, because you know what they should be charging you, but it's really fun. I love traveling around in Bolivia. Such a blast.
