Got a ticket for the 'regional' train this Friday. This 'Death Train' goes all the way to the Brazilian border, but my plan is to get down in Roboré and spend some time around there. It won't be a short trip, this is an extremely slow train, it will take almost 12 hours to get there (compared to 8 by bus, if the road is open.)
They all tell you that the train is much better than 15 years ago when we took it with Camilla. At that time it was so full of smugglers. Going to the bathroom was an impossible task. The seat was less than 90 degrees. And it took 23 hours, more or less, from the border to Santa Cruz, including a small derailment. They just pushed the wagon out of the way and the train kept going. But for a while we all were there alone, green walls all around us. Anmd suddenly we noticed that the jungle was full of mosquitoes...
It takes time, but I love trains. And all the life they bring to little towns otherwise abandoned, surrounded by a thick forest.
Got a reservation in a hotel San Martín in Roboré. Is there anything to do Easter Friday at midnight when the train arrives? "Sleep," said the guy who took the reservation.
(Luis Cordova, at the internet point in the train station, Ferrocarril de Oriente, Santa Cruz de la Sierra)
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