Inti Wara Yassi

on the tarmac at Rurrenabaque

Finally made it to the jungle & my volunteer project. After an overnight bus to La Paz I took the easy option of a small plane (35),
 I'm counting this since it only had 21 seats and I could see the pilot the whole way - a bit different from the cross Atlantic monsters. The bus that collected us from the tarmac went into the small town of Rurrenabaque, there's no terminal, just the airline office in town.

Next up a little boat (36) across the river, a wait for a collective taxi and an hour or so later I arrived at camp.

boat from Rurre to San Buenaventura

birds in  jacj cuisi

Sunset at Jacj Cuisi

Jacj Cuisi is the most recent and most ambitious project of the 3 sites in Bolivia. At the present time there are 4 pumas but once the quarantine & clinic buildings are complete there will be the facilities to rehabilitate monkeys & ultimately release them to Baldi National park which virtually boarders our land.

Facilities are pretty good, with water tapped from the stream we have fresh drinking water & bananas amongst the fruit & veg grown on site.

Lishou the puma

breakfast waiting to be picked

one of may butterflies

You can read much more about the park at  http://www.intiwarayassi.org/ donate if you want to, or even better, go volunteer there.

Of course if you don't like animals you can still sponsor me for my Raleigh expedition working on both community & environmental projects in Borneo.

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