PERU | Wednesday, 15 Apr 2009 | Views [889]
I wasn’t expecting to update a travel journal several weeks after returning home. After all, I’m not travelling anymore. But since a bit of the jungle hitched a ride home with me, another post seemed appropriate. After taking it easy in Cusco for a ... Read more >
PERU | Thursday, 12 Mar 2009 | Views [915] | Comments [1]
...the bad news is, this is still going to hurt. When you hear these words from a Peruvian doctor you know things aren’t exactly going according to plan. I arrived in Cusco last Friday, travelling with my friend Meredith, who I met at the research ... Read more >
PERU | Wednesday, 11 Mar 2009 | Photo Gallery
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PERU | Thursday, 5 Mar 2009 | Views [587] | Comments [3]
Today I left the research station and returned to Puerto Maldonado. By the time I had left the research station, life had evolved into a fairly regular routine. We awoke each morning at 6 for breakfast before the researchers headed out to the ... Read more >
PERU | Monday, 23 Feb 2009 | Views [710] | Comments [10]
My stay in the Amazon is halfway over. There are some things that I will not miss when I leave here. I will not miss cold showers or only having one location in the entire station where I can get drinking water. I will not miss the beaurocratic snafu ... Read more >
PERU | Wednesday, 18 Feb 2009 | Views [839] | Comments [9]
Buenos Dias from the Amazon! I am staying in CICRA, a research station on the Los Amigos river in Peru. To get here I took several flights to arrive at Puerto Maldonado in southern Peru . Then I took a taxi to Laborinto an hour drive up the river. There ... Read more >
