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Yeahhhh
Rum ain't great for a recovering stomach. Today's been very chill, minimal eating, minimal moving. Not sure if I really got any sleep 'last night' so definitely been making the best of having a hotel room. Its just really weird having a room key!
Despite that I still got out and saw a bit of Trinidad. The city is very off the tourist trail. The streets are wide, and lined with stinking open sewers. Seemingly every shop is either a tattoo parlour, a chicken restaurant or sells some kind of electronics. Oh and there's about a trillion motorbikes.
Trinidad is the capital of the Beni Department, one of Bolivia's largest and home to most of its jungle. Beni is also one of the poorest regions of this poor country a fact obviously demonstrated by the street kids here, a couple hanging outside the chicken restaurant I ate dinner at trying to make a few Bs cleaning motorbikes and scavenging for any leftovers before the waitresses picked up the plates. Not wanting to upset my stomach like in Santa Cruz, and the chips and rice being horrifically overcooked, I happily obliged.
Trinidad is still a pleasant place, seemingly very quiet for a city so large and significant to it's region. Still, I'm knackered, and ready to rest me and my swollen (due to fire ant bites) right knuckles.
Buenos Noches.
Vamos
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