Camino Real Santa Cruz

... not. Near the coast i take a boat to a town called....(i dont remember) but the town floats. A good few thousand people live there on reefs they have been linking together for the last few hundred years. Very pretty and touristy. The boat only takes you to a few places where they try to sell you all of their useless crafts and over priced fish. I decide not to spend the night and catch the next morning bus into Bolivia.

The bus ...

... Brazil were booked, we took a bus. We weren't even going to take the "death train". The bus seemed like our best bet, but that turned into an entire different expectation. There is one thing to understand about Bolivia. Most of their roads are unpaved (but Evo Morales hopes to pave them soon), and so what seems not that far away can take much longer. The road from Santa Marta to the border was terrible ...

... the Machita family lives. From there we only had a 60km walk to the first stop point, unless we could get a lift. We were really hoping for a few cars going up the road but we were hopeful becuase everyone we'd asked said there would be many. We did manage to get a couple lifts, but only after over 6 hours of walking with our backpacks full of enough food for a week. We also met 2 cars going the other way who told us that they would be coming back in less than ...

Walking With Puma´s in the Bolivian Jungle - Prologue Walking towards the cage, Rob was explaining that Sama could get quite moody and aggressive. I didn´t catch every word as Rob was walking ahead, but I heard that the last time Sama was walked... ... ... something about a hospital, and 17 stitches. Hmmm. Sama is a male Jaguar, and ...

¡Hola! Two weeks since, I last wrote, thats the longest time ever! I feel very out of practice, and my typing is even worse than usual :oS so excuse the (soon to be) many mistakes! I was going to write last week but unfortunately the power went (a regular occurence) before I had time... So much to catch up on! Actually theres not that much to say as obviously at the park one day is pretty similar to another, unlike travelling. But its awesome in adifferent way. So i'll just ...

¡Hombres! ¿Que tal? I only have a short amount of time and so many things to say but I will do my best... I have decided to stay at Parque Ambue Ari for 4 weeks so that I can work with the cats, and I am now the proud 'owner' of an adorable Ocelot called Lazycat. She is very humanised as she lived with a family in Santa Cruz as a kitten, but was rescued and came to the park from Santa Cruz zoo. She lives in her cage in the jungle, and everyday I take her for walks. The first few ...

The remote Parque Nasionale Noel Kempff Mercado was the setting for Arhtur Conan-Doyle´s famous novel ¨The Lost World¨ and for good reason. The park is dominated by the 500 metre high, approximately 1000 square km meseta which rises up from still virgin rainforest (a thing we realise is already pretty rare and becoming more and more so) We hooked up with a cool American couple and their three ...

... where i had to say a few words. Accomodation and food was all supplied, unlike other volunteer organisations you didn´t have to pay a cent for anything! No administartion fee´s, no accomodation costs, no food costs, nothing. Any dontations you want to make are greatly accepted but NOT required. I gave my host family who put me up and fed me some meals a lot of fruit as the kids needed the nourishment. I also gave the foundation money so that next month ...