Asociación Fauna Forever, together with Lifeworks, an organisation which creates opportunities for teenagers from around the world to volunteer abroad, teamed up at the end of July (2010) with two main aims: to help young students experience the beauty and at times harsh reality of life in the Amazon and also, to help one particular [...]
Read moreHopefully the title of this entry is not misleading – although my recent visit to my homeland (the US, mainly Iowa and Chicago) was absolutely refreshing, I am back in Amazonia and as happy as ever. These days the act of returning to Explorer’s Inn on the Tambopata feels as much like returning home as [...]
Read moreSo, permits obtained we were then on the EI bus up the dusty road to the Infierno Community where we caught the boat up to Explorer’s Inn (EI). It’s about an hour’s trip upriver from there. I’d been here a year ago and nothing had changed apart from one of the pet macaws had been [...]
Read moreThe heat and humidity is pretty stifling getting off the plane but it feels right. How it should be. It’s the bloody jungle after all. Bags collected, I pressed through the gang of touting mototaxistas (motor taxi drivers: three or two wheeled) and the waiting tour guides holding up the signs for their lodges. After [...]
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