Well, some of you reading this will already know what I'm about to relate, but for those of you who weren't paying attention, this is the story so far... In April 2005 I set off, a rather nervous volunteer, to Ecuador to work on a conservation reserve called La Hesperia, located a couple of hours from Quito in the Western Lowlands of the Andes. LaHesperia/url As a long-haul travel virgin, and a non Spanish speaker, there were many times before I left that I questioned my own sanity in heading off into the wilds of South America with little real idea of where I was going or what I would do when I got there. Despite dreaming of travelling the world for years, I found that when it came to it I was a feardy cat
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