Paramedic Pete (and anyone else with solid info) - one of my college kid nieces is going to Bolivia in September. The rough itinerary is:

8 weeks
home stay in Cochabamba (9,000 feet, major city) there may not be running water or electricity all of the day

4 weeks
wherever, doing her research and data analysis

5 days
rural work stay with indigenous native speakers of Quechua where there will be no
running water

Excursions to (and staying at hotels, cabins and bed and breakfast, and if the big city doesn't always have running water, I doubt if some of all of these rural outposts will have running water):

La Paz ans Lake Titicaca (13,000 feet altiplano)
Sucre and Southern Highlands
Santa Cruz (low land semi tropical) and
Bolivian Amazon

Bolivia is not Ecuador and so forth, but any general (or specific) tips/advice? And/or do you have any acquaintances who have recently spent time in Bolivia I could talk to?

I know the usual sources of information and so forth; am looking for reliable first-hand tips.

PM me if you prefer or leave it as an open discussion.

Aside - I'm about to have paramedic #2 son and #1 son is no. 2 on the hire list for the Fire Department. Yay!

Regards,

Tom