One of the lakes near Guatavita, actually in flood from all the rain. Posted by Picasa

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Righhhhhhhhtttttttt.........

Ummmm been a bit slack here I see, with well over two months since the last entry it's more than a bit slack I think! The here and now is Cusco. I am thinking about heading off via a less trodden no rip off back road to Machu Picchu tomorrow. (Bus to Santa Maria- Collectivo to Santa Teresa- 5 hour walk to Aguas Calientes, 1 hour walk to Machu Picchu, and aparrently if you get there before 5am ish there is no-one to buy a shamefully overpriced ticket from...) I am thinking to take three of four days over the whole thing then off to La Paz in Bolivia via Copacabana on the Bolivian side of lake Titicaca. Here Cusco itself is indeed a beautiful tourist trap. It hasn't lost it's charm for being so either, and there is still a real Peruvian feel to it. You can even find tucked away if you have a sharp eye, cheap almuerzos (Lunch of Soup followed by rice with a salad, some beany lentily goodness and some meat) at a dollar as opposed to the gringo caffs with prices six or seven tim...
Read more

escape from the insectos

Image
A trip to the internet is always welcome. Our home is right at the end of a very badly beaten track, so Buenos Aires, collection of shoe shops around a dusty bus station that it is, seems like a vibrant bustling metropolis. More importantly there are far fewer insects here! I had to remove a scorpion from the wall in my room last night before I went to bed. It probably wont kill you but "¡Se duele mucho! Hmm ugly arachnids as you can see! I am going to transcribe a little here from my ink and paper diary, a bit about the project and how we have been feeling and getting on with the whole thing: Initally it seemed very disorganised as we arrived and there was noone here -bar our host families, who have no involvement other than putting us up, and Sara, who has been out here volunteering since the summer- to introduce us to our work. In addition to the rain that really left us with very little to do. All of us as people who had joined the project to learn new skills, with a view to c...
Read more

First impressions of Boruca

Hey hey folks.... Lots to tell seeing I have been here less than a week so far.... I'll skip all the dull stuff about cramped flights and so on, bar the fact that I had to catch a 4wd bus, at 6 this morning with about a hundred other people to spend 2 hours bouncing along rain washed muddy tracks to the nearest town -The positively bustling metropolis(!) of Buenos Aires- with internet... (it's not that bad really, just don't expect regular reports... oh and the nearest post office is here aswell,closed today!!!) So as you can imagine up in the village of Boruka where I am staying life is quite rustic. I am live with a family of four in their house, a pleasant room of my own and a thatched cabana outside where the cooking is done by Louisa over a wood fire, and I sit in the hammok in the evenings with my book watching the vampire bats flutter round me. The people here are so nice, really. I have been just accepted into the family as one of them I feel... sent next door to pi...
Read more