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Bolivian Kidnap |
15 Jan 2007 |
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Travelling around Bolivia, teacher Holly Sheldon and her mother, Jenny, were caught up in a terrifying ordeal when the minibus they were travelling in took a detour down a narrow side street in La Paz. The bus was stopped and masked gunmen jumped aboard. The women were bound, blindfolded and taken to a sparsely furnished house. They talk to Ritula about their kidnapping ordeal, what it was like to be held at gunpoint, and what effect it had on their mother/daughter relationship. They will be joined by David Atkinson, author of a new guidebook to Bolivia who has many years’ experience of travelling in South America. He’ll be discussing the dangers faced by independent travellers and ways to minimise the risks involved.
A full account of Holly and Jenny’s experiences will appear in the Times 2 supplement of The Times newspaper on January 18th 2007
Bolivia: The Bradt Travel Guide by David Atkinson is published on Jan 20th and will be available in bookshops from Jan 26th ISBN: 978 1 841621 65 4
Foreign and Commonwealth Office advice for women
Foreign and Commonwealth Office advice for Bolivia
Information website for travellers, set up in memory of Austrian couple, Katharina and Peter
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