Hey all, have a bit to catch up with. I started Friday with a relaxing morning, lie in, journal writing and massage in the hotel, which wasnt as relaxing as I had hoped for!! I got my back massage and a few knots worked but also got a bum massage which was just weird!!! So I told them to get back to my shoulders!! In the afternoon, matt and I want climbing with Paulo from yesterday and his mate Oscar. Matt was already wrecked having just got back from White Water Rafting, and it was also his first time climbing outside. [View Full Entry]

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banos is an amazing town!! there are so many adventure sports guides, and we are with possibly the craziest- Jose and his two dogs!! yesterday first thing we went for a bridge swing, which involved a full body harness, three ropes, diving off a bridge to swing back and forth below it!! it was brilliant, and incredibly scary free-falling waiting for the rope to kick in!!! only five of us did it and my insides were like jelly but it was a great feeling after- adrenaline high!! then we went canyoning which was just fantastic. We swam in cool clear waters, [View Full Entry]

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hey all!!! don´t have a lot of time to recount my adventures so here is a brief overview.... travelled to Misahualli in jungle sunday, hiked through jungle monday but it wasnt near as humid as in peru!! our guide made us eat lots of different plants and inspect every spider on way past. we stayed in jungle lodge with lots of hammocks, went to visit Indian family who showed us how they hunt for food, rained all night deterring the insects from invading our room. Monday we went for another hike eating more plants and visiting the local school where we [View Full Entry]

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Hey all!! Missing Ayacucho already!!! Made it to Quito no problem, even managed a couple of actual conversations with the taxi drivers!! Quito is in a beautiful setting, lots of trees, dramatic mountains and deep gorges, all filled with trees, was a beautiful sight descending in the plane! Met Pedro our guide and Wessel our driver, and everyone else. Theres another Irish girl, Mary from Mayo, two aussies, two kiwis, two english and two welsh, good mix of people!! Just back from dinner out, we cant drink until monday when the elections are over!! early start tomorrow we are leaving at [View Full Entry]

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Hey all!! the internet kept crashing yesterday so lost most of what I was re-typing over and over, so I'm going to leave it and fill in the details when I get back!! basically after the Ishaninca tribe we returned to Sibia and had dinner, went to a discotheque, watched a huge lightning storm, sunday visited a waterfall and returned back to Ayacucho, it was such a relief to return to civilisation!!! Tuesday we went out for laurens 20th birthday, and my leaving dinner, was really good craic got a bit drunk and sat up til 4 in the morning talking [View Full Entry]

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so we made it back to the village and stopped to mop up sweat and down bottles of water!! then it was back to the boats to go back upriver, we found a beach to stop and have lunch on (more peanut butter yum!!) and then we went swimming!! it felt so good!!! back in th boats again and we stopped further upriver to visit a real peruvian jungle tribe, friends of Panchos. We hiked through large forests of banana trees and marshy patches (where I found my boots are indeed waterproof again) though the humidity was a lot less!! we [View Full Entry]

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Hey all!! yes i made it back from the jungle intact!!! it was a lng trip, we left 6:30am friday and didnt reach our hostel til 6pm, well after stopping for breakfast, lunch and a flat tyre!! the scenery was beautiful on the way down, the roads were very narrow, winding and for the most part unpaved!!! when we finally got out of the minibus the humidity almost bowled me over, reminded me of florida, but of course no air conditioning here!!! we didnt do much on friday, just went to dinner and watched the flies stick to the toilet paper [View Full Entry]

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hey all, we all survived the llama trek!! it was brilliant, we left Ayacucho at 8:30 sat morn, in a bus packed with food and gear by Pancho, luxury catered camping!! we drove for about 2hours to a small village about 12000ft in the andes where we met out llamas, they were such funny creatures- proud and graceful with necks held high and huge black eyes. they were all decked out in colourful headpieces and ribbons, and big bells around their necks. our bags were strapped to their backs and off we went with two herders on horseback to guide them. [View Full Entry]

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Hey all, Llama trek is definalely on this weekend, we are leaving tomorrow moring at 8 which isnt too bad, camp overnight and soak up the hot springs on sunday!! last night we went out to dinner for Kyndal, Liese and Carol´s second last night in Ayacucho, Carol broké out the pisco and we all had shots. awfully good stuff!! then after we went to Erick ¿panchos son sorry the computer wont let me do brackets? house where some friends of his were playing andean music and some more recognisable folk songs. today molly came with me to the salud mental [View Full Entry]

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hey all!! not much to report this week!! everyone arrived back on monday evening, with amazing stories I cant wait to go!! i spent most of my time reading, learning spanish, shopping and getting followed around by strange peruvian men ;) well one strange man and i did shake him off before i got back to the house. so been busy working at placements, a lot less busy this week thank god!! placements still a lot of fun, today i worked with the adults at the salut mental, it was sports day so we went somewhere to play volleyball and soccer [View Full Entry]

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