Dumb and Dumber

We made a special edision blog for all our viewers and it consists of all photos. We have gotten a little lazy of writing and though that our pictures would speak for us. Well give a little background: The first few pictures consist of us in the jungle, we volunteered at an animal refuge called Inti Wara Yassi. We stayed there for 16 days, we got split up in our work as Zack worked with monkies in a place called the Mirador, the monkies were a little more wild and crazy there, which is why no tourists were allowed up there as well as no women workers. I worked with a spectacle bear named Balu, I worked with a local guy named Edwin who had worked with Balu since he was 2 months old. Each day ... read more

We had anticipated Otavalo for a while as it is known in South America to be one of the best hand crafted markets. We were in for a surprise when once again we got lost and mistook the local market for the hand crafted market. The local market was filled with fruits, vegetables, and meat. We are not talking your average butcher shop meats they had pig carcasses hanging, pig heads on plates, and chickens. All the meat was out in the warm heat and giving off a stench and on top of that there were dogs walking around giving everything a lick and the flies were feasting off the meat too. We were so confused and almost gave up finding the market when we finally wandered up the market. We were able to pick up ... read more