EmmaK

Good news, everyone! I have resurrected my travel blog so you will all be able to keep up to date with my latest shenanigans. I can't promise entries will be especially frequent but I can promise that if you enjoyed the Peru blog, you'll love this one. Hopefully I won't have to include so many entries relating to parasites and tropical diseases this time! As well as blogging, I will also be tweeting (@emmakwallace) and putting lots of photos onto facebook so that you all turn a suitable shade of green! Last time I really enjoyed reading your comments so please write lots. Even if I can't reply personally to each of you its lovely to know what is happening in real life. For those of you celebrating a birthday before 1st December you should get ... read more

Hello everyone, I'm not going to even bothering apologising for being so useless at updating this blog; surely you've all noticed the pattern emerging by now! What I will do is try to write you a nice, long and meaty post to make up for it. Now, where to start...ah, yes. Puerto Maldonado. Last time I wrote I was sitting in a hostel room enjoying the fan and TV with three bot flies growing in my head and feeling somewhat ill. I am currently sitting in a hostel room enjoying the fan and TV with three small lumps on my head where the bot flies had been growing in my head and feeling rather ill. Don't you love how history repeats itself. More on that later. After a few days in PM, Mini and Gideon managed ... read more

Hello all, Sorry for my lack of an update but all I can say is that life got rather intense! Almost as soon as I got back from Puerto I started going out with the rest of the team following FC and scouting for new groups. These days typically start at 4am and end at 9pm with data entry. There is something incredibly satisfying about them, especially when you find a brand new group or follow an existing group in an area they haven't been seen in before. In the past few days our combined efforts have brought the total number of observed tamarins in the area up to 82. Now we just have to catch them all! As so much has happened since my last post I'll just write about a few interesting recent happenings. ... read more

Since I last wrote a blog very little has happened. I’ve been stuck at camp, again, trying to beat this retched kidney infection. I have managed to finish three more trashy romance novels! On the topic of romance…a few weeks ago the women of CICRA heard a rumour that at the beginning of February a group of young, Russian students would be coming to watch birds for a week. This set many a heart a flutter (not mine of course as I am very happy with the young man I’ve got already). Then, last Friday, the Russians arrived but to the horror of the female population they were old and rather overweight! I found it all hilarious, especially has they only seemed to wear camouflage and had HUGE camera lenses. After everyone’s initial disappointment, the Russians ... read more

I am the sort of person who has to run up the stairs at home at night so the ‘monsters’ don’t get me. Now picture me wandering around in the Amazon, baiting traps, all alone. At the very time that the logical part of my brain would be incredibly useful, to stop my imagination running riot, it has decided to go on holiday. I can see it now; lying on a beach in the Caribbean, drinking a cocktail from a coconut shell. As you would now expect, my imagination has gone into overdrive so that every sound I hear (including those I’m making myself) are magically transformed into a jaguar stalking me or a herd of peccaries charging towards me. As a result of this I have spent the past few days in a state of ... read more