marcelo15's VirtualTourist Home Page
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PLEASE READ THIS... | marce with my friend´s touristic bus..el kaminante |
thanks to all of you for visiting my page here on vt...i really hope that you might find some useful information and you can come to visit us one day...
Latest News!!! i`ve already had the great chance to watch the documentary called, "The devil`s miner". This is definitely a wonderful and extraordinary film made in Potosí, Bolivia.
For further info about the film check it out here: "the devils miner".
Wow! Recentely the vt guru, Giampiero6, wrote a note about myself...if you wanna check it out:
Giampiero6´s comment about myself.
thank you my friend...i hope i still can still keep in touch with you.. |
| at the age of 4 years old! |
|  | MY LIFE... Well, i guess that is a good idea to introduce myself.
Well, my full name is Marcelo Rojas Calderon, i was born and live all my life in La Paz, Bolivia.
i think that one of the beautiful activities that i really like to do is meeting with new friends from overseas!!!
I think because I am an only child, I prefer to keep in touch with friends who I consider them my real brothers and sisters. in spite of , i am not with them anymore...(sniff) but i really love receiving news from them frecuently.
so far my most memorable VT meetings are: Jimmy (Narviking) & his wonderful mum, from Norway, Victoria (Tord), from England, Spela (glorija) & Saso, from Slovenia. and of course with Jeffrey and Kevin from USA, (Arnoud from France and Simen from Norway).
Those meetings and other were really nice and i still remember like it happened yesterday.
Of course that i also know some other friends virtually that i haven`t had the chance to meet but i am in a frecuent contact with them...Two great examples are my contact with my nice friend, JELENA. who, always write some nice words to me...She is simply an amazing person. and...
Good news!!! i`m so happy to let you know that i have a new friend, Nat Atkins, who always write some pretty mails to me. He ´s definitely a wonderful friend, who i really wish to meet one day...
Also, i think that i`m a tremendous athletic person (LOL). ok, just amateur at playing racquetball, table tennis, chess, swimming.
i really hope to go by the DEATH ROAD again soon....oooooooo!!!
Thanks to Virtual Tourist i found very nice to have a different thing from everywhere, so that`s why i decided to collect postcards from everywhere (please see down).
Ok, as i always say if you have any question or anything else please just drop me a mail and i will be so happy to let you know any info that you need.
please, about my tips it may be better for me to read any comment about any of my pages here. it will help me to improve my tips and trying to be clearer. ok??? thanks...
Ok, friends hope you like reading my pages and getting to know me better and helpful to you...bye for now,
your good bolivian friend, marce. |
my family... They are the most important people on the earth for me.
As i`ve told you i`m an only child in my family, so they are my closed family.
NOTE:In the pic you see my friends JIM (NARVIKING) and his wonderful mum, AUD with MY PARENTS ELIO, TRINI & and RAMBITO). This pic was taken when i had the great chance to be with them in LA PAZ. (it was really a great meeting). | | | my parents and my norwegian friends. |
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| my postcards on the door... |
| | POSTCARDS!!! As many people love to have a postcard from a different country, marcelo do.
If you wanna have a postcard from any city of Bolivia just let me know, i`ll do my best to send one to you...And if you want to sent me one to me please you can do it to this reference:
MARCELO ROJAS CALDERON
CASILLA POSTAL : 4876
LA PAZ - BOLIVIA
AFRICA
ALGERIA = 1
ANGOLA = 1
BOSTWANA = 1
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC = 1
CONGO = 2
CHAD = 1
LESOTHO = 1
LIBYA = 1
EGYPT = 2
ETHIOPIA = 1
MALAWI = 1
MALI = 1
MOROCCO = 1
MOZAMBIQUE = 1
NAMIBIA = 2
SOUTH AFRICA = 1
SWAZILAND = 1
TUNISIA = 2
ZAMBIA = 1
ZIMBABWE = 2
I´m looking postcards from the following countries in Africa:
Bassas da India, Benin ,Bouvet Island, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Comoros, Cote D'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Europa Island, Gabon, Ghana, Glorioso Islands, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Juan de Nova Island, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Niger, Nigeria, Republic of Congo, Reunion, Rwanda, Saint Helena, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, The Gambia, Togo, Tromelin Island, Uganda, Western Sahara
EUROPE
I´m looking for the following places: Isle of Man Jan Mayen-San Marino-Svalbard
SOUTH AMERICA:
ARGENTINA = 3
BRASIL = 8
COLOMBIA = 1
CHILE = 1
ECUADOR = 1
PERU = 3
PARAGUAY = 3
URUGUAY = 1
I`m looking for the following places: Falkland Islands, French Guiana, Guayana, Suriname & Venezuela
ASIA:
BANGLADESH = 1
BHUTAN = 1
CAMBODIA = 1
CHINA = 1
LAOS = 1
KAZAKSTAN = 1
KYRGYZSTAN = 1
MALAYSIA = 2
NEPAL = 2
NORTH KOREA = 1
INDIA = 2
INDONESIA = 3
JAPAN = 2
PAKISTAN = 2
PHILIPINNES = 8
TAIWAN = 2
THAILAND = 5
SINGAPORE = 2
UZBEKISTAN=1
I´m looking for the following countries in Asia:
Afghanistan, British Indian Ocean territory, Brunei, Burma, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, East Timor, Hong Kong, Macao, Maldives, Mongolia, Paracel Island, Spratly Islands, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan
CENTRAL AMERICA:
CAYMAN ISLANDS = 1
CUBA = 1
COSTA RICA = 1
GUATEMALA = 2
HONDURAS = 4
JAMAICA = 1
MEXICO = 2
NICARAGUA = 1
THE BAHAMAS = 2
EL SALVADOR = 1
I`m looking from the following countries: Anguilla Antigua and Barbuda Aruba, Barbados, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Clipperton Island Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Honduras, Martinique Montserrat Navassa Island
Netherlands Antilles, Panama, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands U. S. Virgin Islands
OCEANIA:
AUSTRALIA = 2
NEW ZEALAND = 1
I´m looking cards from the following countries in Oceania:
American Samoa, Ashmore and Cartier Islands, Baker Island, Cook Islands
Coral Sea Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, French Polynesia, Guam, Howland Island, Independant State of Samoa, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Midway Islands, Nauru, New Caledonia, Niue, Norfolk Island, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Palmyra Atoll, Papua New Guinea, Pitcairn Islands, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Wake Atoll, Wallis and Futuna
MIDDLE EAST:
I`m looking cards from the following countries in the Middle East:
Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Palestine, Yemen
NORTH AMERICA:
CANADA = 2
USA = 14
Attention: Because the United States has many states and of course is a big country i though to make some details about the postcard that i`ve been receiving...so they are from:
ARKANSAS = 1
BOSTON = 2
CHICAGO = 1
INDIANA = 2
MONTANA = 3
NEW YORK = 6
SAN FRANCISCO = 5
UTAH = 1
VIRGINIA = 1
WISCONSIN = 1
ATTENTION! As you can see there are some cards from some countries missing on my colection. if you wanna trade some cards, just let me know. thanks |
A DEDICATORY....TO GENARO I?D LIKE TO DEDICATE A FEW WORDS TO AN EXCELLENT MAN AND CLIMBER WHO ALWAYS USED TO DARE THE HIGHEST MOUNTAINS IN LA PAZ AND BOLIVIA.
AS FAR AS OUR HEAVENLY FATHER DECIDED TO TAKE HIM BESIDE HIM AND NOW HE RESTS IN PEACE.
querido GENARO que nuestro padre celestial te tenga y te de una vida eterna....
PS. MY FRIEND GENARO IS THE MAN WHO WEARS THE RED CAP AND IS BEHIND ME. THIS PIC WAS TAKEN BEFORE CLIMBING AT ILLIMANI MOUNTAIN...(the one which is back) | | |
| my friend, miriam shows his art from cusco |
ABOUT FRED SIWAK Friends from virtual Tourist: CAN YOU HELP HIM???:
I`m going to tell you little bit about a good friend. His name is Fred Siwak, 52, from Ipswich, USA.
ABOUT HIM: Fred has started a project to get a photo of his art in every country in the world, an idea that stemmed form the increased isolation his progressive disease brought on. After the reality that he would never work again and would forever be confined to a wheelchair with a steady loss of muscle control, he decided to seize the strenght he still had to create art, initially using adaptations to draw with pastels and carve linoleum prints (like "BUTTERFLIES").
Soon this become impossible and he then turned to drawing on the computer by moving the mouse wedged between his hands an using lateral pressure for control. By this method he created over 60 images. Fred?s art has been featured on television, national tours and national and local publications in the United States, the museum of Non - conformism in St. Petersburg and web sites in New Zealand Russia, Kenya, Philippines, United Kingdom, South Korea, Somalia, Angola, Bolivia, Germany, Malaysia and Egypt.
Fred Siwak is a self - taught artist who made his art his vocation after his diagnosis of ALS (a.k.a. MND) a progressive, fatal neuromuscular disease, with no known cause or cure, characterized by the rapid, progressive death of motor neurons, nerve cells that feed all the voluntary muscles in the body. Prior to his illness, he explored many art forms including watercolor, pastels, pencil, photography and ceramics,
Because his disease has rentered his hands useless, he now creates images on the computer.
Fred works with the Muscular Dystrophy Association and the ALS Association in Massachusetts donating art, making appearances and advocating in support of the effort to serve the ALS community.
HELPPlease, if you want to give him a hand send him an e mail at:seaweed@gis.net He is also a VT friend try to look for his nickname, which is PALS "(This project is so important to me. Your cooperation would be immensely appreciated!)". AMIGOS - PALS |
FUTURE TRIPS IN MY MIND OK dear folks i decided to add this chapter to let you know that i?d like to be and visit there my old good friends that i really, really will like to remeet and to see the beauty of the world...
so far the following countries are:
SOUTH AMERICA:
BRASIL (Definitely RIO, RIO, RIO)
CHILE (TO BE AT THE EASTER ISLAND)
ECUADOR (the middle of the world + the phenomenom of the gravity)
PARAGUAY (IGUAZU FALLS)
CENTRAL AMERICA:
MEXICO (the ruins of AZTECAS and the stadium, Azteca)
NORTH AMERICA:
USA (to remeet my old friends, wade, kevin, jessica, susan and my vt friends there)
EUROPE:
NORWAY (nothing more special that remeet to Narviking and his nice family).
ENGLAND (try to keep in touch with the real QUEEN FUN CLUB and of course some vt friends).
GERMANY (to visit Chancay an old vt friend and my friends in Leipzig).
SWITZERLAND (to visit Kandid Jager in Zurich)
ITALY (definitely rome and Venice).
CROATIA (to visit Davor and Borna).
SLOVENIA (to visit Glorija and Saso).
SERBIA (to visit, Aurorae)
AFRICA:
MOROCCO
TANZANIA
ZAMZIBAR (where FREDDIE MERCURY was born)
ASIA:
TURKEY (Istambul)
CHINA (the great wall and Shangai)
THAILAND
INDIA (to see the incredible monument of the taj mahal)
OCEANIA
AUSTRALIA ( to see kanguros and my old friends there).
NEW ZEALAND (the land of the lord of the rings and perhaps some vt friends)
Of course that i`d like to visit more countries but i know that it may be quiete expensive. i know that there are always a beautiful thing to see everywhere. I`d like to say someday.... Going abroad finally come true!!! as something says If you can dream, you can do it. | | | sometimes no matter how you travel, but travel! |
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Skye2006 Sat Nov 7, 2009 11:16 UTC
Hola marcel. Please visit my new page. I accidentally deleted my previous page. | SLLiew Fri Oct 23, 2009 16:41 UTC
Hi Marce, Have received your postcard of reed boat builder. See it on my VT front page. Gracias. Hope you receive my card soon. Will send you another from Thailand next weekend. Cheers, SL :) | jumpingnorman Sat Oct 17, 2009 15:32 UTC
Hello Marcelo! I almost got a flight to Bolivia for next month, but I decided on Tikal, Guatemala for now because I had only 3 days...but La Paz is deifinitely on my wishlist and will visit one of these days, Norman :) | fashionapple Sat May 23, 2009 20:05 UTC
Hey Marce. Happy Belated Birthday. I hope you had a great day :) |
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