Blogs from Cochabamba Department, Bolivia, South America - page 28

Hey folks, just a quick update to my awesome fan base! I am at Inta Wari Yassi, an animal sanctuary in the Bolivian jungle. I got my wish and am working with monkeys- cappuchins, to be exact. As usual, the animals are great, it´s the humans that i am having trouble relating to. maybe i should´ve been born another species? We all stay at different hostals, and my first hostal was much more like a refugee camp for prisoner´s of war than a hotel, so i upgraded to another. We aren´t allowed to bring a camera for the first week, so i will post a proper blog next week. If you want to check out the organization, this is their website. http://www.intiwarayassi.org/home_eng.shtml Love to all, and usual , thanks for the comments. Holly and monster, thanks ... read more

After spending a couple of days in Cochabamba wandering around its never ending market (2km square of stalls) that sold everything from puppies to microwaves everything that is apart from what we were looking for. We headed off down hill towards the Foundation Angeles of Hope, in Villa Tunari, where we spent a month doing some voluntary work. Villa Tunari lies just beyond the last wrinkle of the Andes and inbetween two major rivers that run toward the amazon basin. As we found on our first night of arrival this location makes some monstrous thunder and rain storms as the hot and humid jungle air clashes with the cold air coming down the mountains. Foundation Angeles De Esperanza ( Angels of hope) consists of a school, medical centre and Dentists surgery and is involved in ... read more

Since our last exciting account of our time spent in the freezing altiplano, we have visited Potosi (the highest city in the world at 4200m) and Sucre to see their beautiful colonial architecture (a square with a cathedral on it), then finally we arrived in Villa Tunari. Now, as many of you may know, whilst on this trip we really wanted to do some volunteering and the opportunity arose at the Inti Wara Yassi animal refuge, a 4 hour bus journey from Cochabamba. The refuge depends entirely on funds from volunteers and their labour. When you arrive, you're given a tour of the park which is set in lush rainforest and are then assigned to an animal which will be your responsibility for the time that you're there. This means that every day Tim goes to ... read more

At last I am warm again, the only slight disadvantage is that I can't enjoy it fully because I'm actually working, as a volunteer in a wild animal refuge in the Bolivian jungle... ...I'm behind on my blogs, so the plan is to bring you all upto date about where I am now, and then go back and fill in the gaps when I have more time later. Means that there will be a confusing time distortion, but I trust that you will all be able to cope without too many problems. After a week in the Altiplano, in freezing temperatures and high altitude, we have eventually found warmth again. Zoe and I arrived in Cochabamba, Bolivia after a nightmare journey from Uyuni. The bus must have been built in the early 70s, and had NO ... read more

This entry will be quick cos we just lost everything that we had just written... dammit. Basically we are now in Brazil, which is lovely and very green and yellow at the moment. To get here we passed through Potosi, Sucre, Cochabamaba and La Paz...we will leave the jungle experience until later, seeing as how we are still in the jungle really, being in Porto Velho. Potosi. Arrived here at 1am and started by inslting a cabbie by asking him if he had ID. WE had heard bad things re Potosi and wanted to make sure we werent mugged. Next day we watched the footie, hard to do given that everyone was watching this festival called "El gran Poder" (the great power) on telly, and no-one was arsed about the footie. Found it in a caff ... read more