PERU | Monday, 11 Sep 2006 | Views [3964]
I've just had the most bizarre experience ever. A vet pal of mine Sheradan Harvey is here to volunteer in Iquitos for a month, & her friend Jeremiah Alley decided to come down to Peru to film a pilot documentary about vets helping animals around ... Read more >
PERU | Tuesday, 22 Aug 2006 | Views [1110]
It doesn't matter that it's chilly & winter in Chiclayo, las chicas are heading out to flash hairy, white legs & check out the surf at Pimentel beach. Robin, Pam, Mindy & I flag down one of the many dented yellow daewoo taxis that do the ... Read more >
PERU | Monday, 21 Aug 2006 | Views [2513]
There goes my street credibility - a wrinkly old peruvian grandma steals my purse, my 10 soles ($4 aussie) & my pride. Third time lucky for the thieves - 1st failed attempt by street kids in Santa Marta, Colombia; take 2 at Belen market in Iquitos and ... Read more >
PERU | Wednesday, 9 Aug 2006 | Views [5452]
I'm in the desert, toes dipping in the Pacific ocean. I'm in Colan, Nth Peru. How cool to wake up sweltering in the balmy heat of amazonian city Iquitos, jump on a couple of planes, & fall asleep next to the sea, being lulled to sleep by the sounds ... Read more >
PERU | Monday, 7 Aug 2006 | Photo Gallery
Lima
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PERU | Monday, 7 Aug 2006 | Views [1501]
I have 1/2 a day to explore Lima before I fly to Piura in the afternoon. I figure I may as well take the cheap (& safe)Urbanito bus service into central Lima. Good plan, but the bus service from the airport no longer exists, so the only option is ... Read more >
PERU | Friday, 4 Aug 2006 | Views [1259]
Its a crazy thing, but all flights out of Iquitos are either VERY early in the morning or late at night. And by early I mean 4:30am which is truly a time when I should be either alseep or dancing, but definitely not waiting in an airport queue. I ... Read more >
PERU | Wednesday, 19 Jul 2006 | Views [24425]
´Priscilla´ the oncilla (the tiger cat that we rescued from the hideous conditions at Inrena) is now ´Queen of the Casa´. She started off living in the bathroom at the vet clinic, but with escalating temperatures in Iquitos and a growing girls need for ... Read more >
PERU | Friday, 7 Jul 2006 | Photo Gallery
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PERU | Friday, 7 Jul 2006 | Views [4250]
Oh my god! What a fiasco to export a dog out of Peru. Just ask Justin the vet student. I doubt he’ll ever want to hear to words ‘Peru’ and ‘dog’ mentioned in the same sentence again. That poor bugger Justin has been stuck in customs ... Read more >
PERU | Thursday, 6 Jul 2006 | Views [6826]
Wow, I got to treat an oncilla!! The oncilla or little tiger cat is one of the smallest cat species in South America. And this little guy is rare and classified cites 1. The species continued existence is considered threatened. I encountered ... Read more >
PERU | Monday, 3 Jul 2006 | Photo Gallery
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PERU | Monday, 3 Jul 2006 | Views [2306]
Filthy conditions, no food or water, an endangered oncilla near death...thats what I encountered on my visit to Inrena, the government animal holding centre in Iquitos. Inrena is the official destination for animals that have been confiscated from ... Read more >
PERU | Tuesday, 20 Jun 2006 | Photo Gallery
Toby
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PERU | Tuesday, 20 Jun 2006 | Views [7492]
Free!!! If you can guess his breed that is. Not always easy when the dog is hairless & his skin is crusty and falling off. After catching the most emaciated hairless street dog ever I was curious what breed would this distinctly alien looking creature ... Read more >
PERU | Thursday, 8 Jun 2006 | Photo Gallery
Butterfly farm
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PERU | Thursday, 8 Jun 2006 | Views [2109]
What a great day! Fantastic to get out of Iquitos for the afternoon away from the noisy motorcarros, clinic dogs & general mayhem. Just a 20 minute boat journey down the tranquil Nanay River & I’m in paradise…..Pilpintuwasi. This means ‘butterfly’s ... Read more >
PERU | Monday, 22 May 2006 | Photo Gallery
Life in the river
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PERU | Monday, 22 May 2006 | Views [3067]
The best thing about living in a floating house in Belen on the Amazon River is that if your neighbors are noisy, smelly or just plain irritating, you can float somewhere else. If only I had the same option! I live above the vet clinic next door to ... Read more >
PERU | Monday, 15 May 2006 | Views [4369]
Ask any foreigner in Iquitos about Belen market & they will answer “muy peligroso” (very dangerous). “Don’t wear your watch, or take a camera, & definitely don’t spend more time there than you have to”. Good advice it may be but when Belen ... Read more >
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