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Mennonites Colonies - Rurul Tourism

• Itinerary of 1 Day 0 Night

From The City of Santa Cruz

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1 Day 0 Night

At  09:00 hours we stop for you at your hotel  to drive you to  NorEast of the city through popular neighborhoods

We leave behind the urban area of the city after 30 minutes of starting the trip.  Then way take a new paved highway to the small typical small town of the Eastern Bolivia

After arring in this village we cross the town to take a dirt road heading to the Mennonite Colony.

After approximately  1 1/2  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 families from Canada and Mexico and other countrie.

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  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  head of he house hold 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 in the  trators. Because every family that has one or more  trator must make  this change

These rules change depending on the Mennonite settlement

In the Mennonite family home, we visit differnt rooms  such as kitchen, bedroom and some others

There is the possibility of 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 other point to visit in this colony

In the colony  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 the the cheese and butter from.

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. The learn the basic skills of reading, math and some other. The rest thy 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 theri we can say private churches  as the  school system in the colonies is  exclusively for them.

For some Europeans a visit to the colony is like travling back in time about 200 years ago.

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

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