Saturday, May 24, 2008 - 06:46 PM

We are pleased to announce that we now carry a range of camping gear made by High Sierra Sports! We have hiking backpacks in 75 Liters, 65 Liters, 55 Liters and a 30 Liter daypack. We also carry 3 new types of camelback from the simple 2 Liter WAVE 70 to the multi-faceted mountain biking KAHUNA 70.

Saturday, May 24, 2008 - 05:36 PM

In January of 2008 The Spitting Llama opened up a new store in Copacabana on the shores of Lake Titicaca in Bolivia`s La Paz department. This store is the town`s first bookstore and carries a wide range of Spanish books along with our usual selection of foreign language titles, plus over 30 books in Aymara (the local indigenous language). We are pleased to annouce the hiring of three new employees! Primitiva Quispe Quispe has worked in tourism in Copacabana and is finishing her bachelor`s degree in tourism at the local university. Jaron Berliner and Caitlin Canfield are spending a year developing the Spitting Llama and volunteering with local children and fair trade goods. The store is open every day from 9AM to 7PM.

Tuesday, March 13, 2007 - 09:23 AM

On March 10th we had the GRAND OPENING for the Spitting Llama Bookstore & Outfitter! Friends and family gathered to help us celebrate. We held a k'oa, an Andean ceremony to bless important events. Rommy's father Mario helped us perform the ritual properly, blessing all four corners of the store with a burnt offering and raw alcohol for the Pachamama. Rommy made Pisco Sours with Darius, a friend of Dave's from Carleton College, and Mario brought a 5 liter jug of chicha, native corn beer.

The store specializes in foreign language books including English, German, French, Italian, etc. We also have the largest selection of Quechua language books in the world (to our knowledge). The store also sells hiking and camping equipment of all types and has an unmatched selection of hiking boots. We'll be spending plenty of time in the store from now on and look forward to seeing you pop in for a visit!

Sunday, January 14, 2007 - 01:18 PM

We've launched our website! While I've dealt with websites before, but this endeavor promises to be longer lasting and more demanding. Rommy has already gotten the hang of administering the website and Oscar will be shooting the first video for the site this coming week. Rommy is creating the Spanish content and I'm working on the English. Pascal, a Belgian-Canadian staying with Rommy's family, will translate our site into Flemmish...Because Flemmish is hot and so are the Flemms.

We've narrowed down our search for a Cochabamba HQ to two different locations and will be deciding this week I think. Once that's done, a whole mileau of things can happen; we register for our tax id (NIT), license to do business, chamber of commerce, and such jollyness. Shockingly, it's extremely easy and quick to start a business here in Cochabamba in a country reknowned for corruption and bureaucracy.

Rommy is researching how to make Quinua flour and her father, Mario, brought her a whole cupauzu fruit from the amazon to do some juice or wine testing. This week we will look into getting German guidebooks and literature from a new German friend Bastian who runs an exciting community tourism project.

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