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Day 1: Depart the UK on your Aerosur flight to Santa Cruz, flying overnight via Madrid.
Day 2: Upon arrival in Santa Cruz, you will be met and transferred to the tropical lowlands of Santa Cruz. This afternoon enjoy a trip to Aqualand. The park has an enormous wave pool, water game areas and several smaller pools, even a small zoo. Lots of slides – bullet flume and jetstream speed slide. Overnight at Burganvillas in Santa Cruz on a bed & breakfast basis.
Day 3: Today visit the Alalay boys and girls houses where children of all ages are educated, fed and clothed. English is taught regularly and children have their own course books. Overnight at Burganvillas in Santa Cruz on a bed & breakfast basis.
Day 4: Transfer to the Aldea, around an hour outside of the city, where you shall spend the next 4 nights staying and joining in with a project to help the children. Overnight at Aldea on a full board basis.
Day 5: Days working the children improving their English and Spanish. Perhaps help out with the vegetable garden, chickens or being creative adopting traditional practices such as textiles and weaving. Overnight at Aldea on a full board basis.
Day 6: Fly from Santa Cruz to Sucre with Aerosur Sucre was founded in 1538, under the name La Plata, and being the Spanish Capital covered an area as far south as Argentina. In 1992 Sucre was declared a UNESCO city, the city has two universities one founded in 1624. Sometimes called the 'White City' due to all the colonial buildings being painted in white, Sucre preserves a courtly air and is a beautiful city to explore. Overnight at Hotel Espana in Sucre on a bed and breakfast basis.
Day 7: Visit the Cretaceous park (an area which contains an impressive group of different species of dinosaur footprints (Cal Orck’o Dinosaur Footprints). It is said that these are 65 million years old.
After visiting the museum and enjoying lunch you shall visit the Textile and Ethnographic Museum Asur. The museum is housed in the Caseron de la Capellania (House of the Chaplain) and has seven exhibition halls where modern indigenous art is displayed alongside colonial and pre-hispanic traditions. The Asur museum specializes in the cultural centres near to Sucre. Overnight at Hotel Espana in Sucre on a bed and breakfast basis.
Day 8: Fly Santa Cruz on the Aerosur flight to Madrid and onto Heathrow overnight. Overnight on plane.
Day 9: Arrive UK.
Amazon Highlands:
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