Blogs from Villa Tunari, Cochabamba Department, Bolivia, South America - page 4

Once again, I´m a little behind the times with my blogging. I've had a fair few requests for this episode, so have written probably far to much. For those short on time, it gets slightly more exciting nearer the end, or there are always the pictures. A SPLITTING OF PATHS After once again harnessing various means of local transportation Shaun and I made it to the famous animal refuge, Inti Wara Yassi. TAfter a brief tour (more a tease than anything, as only volunteers could see the exciting stuff) it came time to decide what we wanted to do. We could either work in the monkey quarantine if we stayed for the intended two weeks, or work with a Puma or in the monkey park if we stayed for the full month. This led to much ... read more

Sorry for not writing in a while, we had quite a bit of rain here, and the internet ia little far, so I neglected to write. I hope none of you got too worried. I´m still at the animal refuge at Villa Tunari (I stayed a few more days extra), but I am leaving tomorrow, or the day after if I have someone to teach the job to. I´ve been working hard during the day, and hanging out with the nice people here during the nights, and enjoying myself in general. I hate to leave this place, but I need to keep on traveling if I want to get to Patagonia during ¨summer¨. I took some great pictures of my animals, and of some other animals in the park, but you´ll have to wait until I ... read more

Today was my training day. A nice English girl, whose last day of volunteering was today, taught me how to care for the small animals, which are going to be solely my responsibility starting tomorrow. The animals are: * 5 Tejones (a.k.a Coatis) * 2 Night Monkeys (a.k.a Owl Monkeys) * Some Kuchikuchis (I´m not sure exactly how many, they were all asleep inside their boxes, I didn´t even see them) * 15 Turtles The job is mostly preparing their food (cutting fruits and vegetables), feeding them, cleaning their cages, and being nice to them. The animals are really cute, especially one of the night monkeys, but the tejones are cute as well. So far I´m having a good time, even though the work is hard, and will be harder when I´m doing it alone. I ... read more

Well, it has been little while since my last blog, mainly because I had hoped spending a month of working at an animal refuge would give me plenty of time for such things. I was wrong, but more on that later. We´ve also had a few issues with cameras, with mine gone in my first few days in Peru and Shauns broken a few weeks after. Just heard that Shauns replacement was stolen as well. However I did managed to save most of our photos before things went astray, and have augmented these with pics from fellow travellers cameras. So you can still expect the pretty pics and witty captions! Back to the story. After all the dilly dallying we´d had in Cusco we decided to increase the tempo again when we reached the picturesque city ... read more

Ik wil jullie graag voorstellen aan Tupac. Mijn nieuwe vriend is een blinde poema van 13 maanden oud en sinds vier weken zorg ik voor hem in een dierenpark in de jungle van Bolivia. Daarmee maak ik deel uit van Comunidad Inti Wara Yassi en heb ik een onvoorstelbare schoonheid van het leven ontdekt. In deze blog wil ik dit park, de dieren en mijn ervaringen met jullie delen en daarnaast doe ik een oproep naar jullie hulp om een nieuwe kooi voor Tupac te kunnen bouwen. Parque Ambue Arí Comunidad Inti Wara Yassi is een Boliviaanse non-gouvernementele organisatie (NGO) en opereert not-for-profit met behulp van vrijwilligers en donateurs van over de hele wereld. ´Comunidad´ betekent dat er een groep mensen samen werkt naar een gemeenschappelijk doel met een karakter als een familie. ´Inti, Wara en ... read more