Amboro Tours

Mennonites Colonies - Rurul Tourism

• Itinerary of 4 or 5  Hours

From The City of Santa Cruz

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Tour of 4 or 5 Hours

After picking you up from your place, we drive you outside the city through popular neighborhoods of the biggest city of Bolivia

After about 30 minutes of starting the tour we start to leave behind the urban area of the city of Santa Cruz

The road to the mennonite colony is now a new paved highway heading to a small typical small town of this tropical - Eastern Bolivia

Once in this village we cross it to take a dirt road heading to the Mennonite Colony.

After approximately 1  hour in the vehicle we start to enter the Mennonite´s colony. This colony which is the closest to the City of Santa Cruz is inhabited by mennonites families that originally came from Canada and Mexico and other countries where also they have colonies.

The colony has about 13000 Ha distributed in 200 families. The colony has about 2000 inhabitants.

As we drive through on the self made roads of the colony, we can observe the large fields of crops and the specially designed houses.

Once we arrived to a house of a  mennonite freind hoping to find him, because the is no way call him by phone to let him know we are coming, he will welcome us with some members of his family

In this house of this Mennonite family the  of he house explains us about the organization for production and maintenance of a mennonites family and the way how the work is distributed among the whole family including the children.

They will show us their barn and where the cows are being milked. Also we can visist their welding shop where they repair and manufacture or produce their kind chariotspulled by horses.

Also this welding workshop is used to change the rubber tyres for iron tyres, iof the trators., because every family that has one or more trators must make this change

These rules may change depending on the Mennonite colony

In the Mennonite family home, we visit diffents rooms of their house such as kitchen, bedroom and some others

There is the possibility of having some food at the same table with the large Mennonite family.

Also during this visit we can talk about some concerns or ask some question to the head of the family

Leaving this friendly family. We drive to some others points to visit in this colony

In the colony we visit the main store where you can see the tools necessary for the development of certain activities of this people, such as harnesses for horses, among others.

Other places to visit is the milk processing plant of the Mennonite community, where they get  the cheese and butter from the milk

The church or temple of the colony is another place to vist, from outside. Pictures are ok.

The schools which are very special for each colony, woks ony 5 months of the year. The girls study 7 years and the boys 6 years. They learn the basic skills of reading, math and some others. The rest they learn while they are helping in their family house

To live this experience for many is like visiting another country. Because the Mennonites have their own way of working, their own community organizations and theiy keep their own  churches. Also  the  the school system in the colonies is exclusively for them.

For some people visiting the colonies is like traveling in time to the past because, the way the houses are, because they still use horses to move from one place to anoher and because   the way the mennonites live and dress.

The time spent in th colony is about 2 hours.

After this very interesting trip, we return to the ciy of Santa Cruz. wherer we take to your hotel.

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