In the back of her mind, Lynette is thinking ‘you stink, you stink, you stink’.19-Sep-2009 14:47, Canon Canon EOS 400D DIGIT, 5.6, 38.0mm, 0.01 sec, ISO 400
On the 5th September 2009 Lynette and I finally made it to Inti Wara Yassi headquarters in Villa Tunari, Bolivia for a spot of volunteering with monkeys. We’d meant to spend two months here originally, but having had too much fun everywhere else it was stripped down to the bare minimum two weeks only. On the way we’d heard many stories of the place, both of its hard work and how many had been hospitalised through bites from various animals. Would we survive unscathed? Would we be able to leave? Would we even be able to find the place?
If you’re seeing things… in your neighbourhood… who ya gonna call?04-Sep-2009 14:26, Canon Canon EOS 400D DIGIT, 10.0, 28.0mm, 0.004 sec, ISO 400
Potosi, or as we fondly recall the city that likes to punch you in the head, is the highest city of its size in the world at 4,070m. It is also dominated by Cerro Rico, the location of a working silver mine. It had been highly recommended by other travellers and a necessarily brief stop on the way north from Uyuni. It was also hopefully going to be a good opportunity to satisfy some pyromaniac tendencies by blowing up TNT. We’d even heard that our intended hostel had the most awesome book exchange known to Bolivia, which would be welcome after Lynette had to Ruth Rendell for a bus trip or two. But did we manage to explode any dynamite? Would we gain access to the fabled book exchange? And why did Potosi seem to dislike us so much?
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