Today's been another interesting day. Got my first draft back from Caro, with as expected a few negative comments. I need to rejiggle the article, and make it less descriptive. I headed down to Mercado Rodriguez, walking past the notorious San Pedro prison. It's a local vegetable market and a great little insight into local life. After having lunch in the street food market of Mercado Lanza, I took a minibus back to Sopocachi. Later this afternoon me Marion an...

Yesterday La Paz was cloudy and moody, meaning my visit to La Paz's largest park, Parque Metropolitano, was a tad depressing. The place had the feel of a Northern beach town in December, and largely consisted of empty theme park rides. That evening we went to another barbecue, this time at the house of a friend of former long-term intern Anna Grace, once again in La Paz's swanky south although this time in the neighbourhood of Cala Coto. Compared to Friday's ...

The last few days have been very chill. Very. I pretty much collapsed into my bed when I got back from the jungle and fell asleep at about 8pm. I feel my stomach illness has now been replaced by a cold, but at least I can eat! Having done my first drafts, I'm just waiting for what happens next really as everything seems to be going slow. Guessing next week maybe a bit hectic. Last night, me and fellow intern Charlie (from Kiribati but grew up in Ethiopia) hea...

Mercifully, San Ignacio was largely overcast today and lot cooler. Today at breakfast there was no discussion about indigenous burglers, nor was I tempted to have any Sonso (a mix of Yucca and disgusting Bolivian cheese). It was once again a slow start, San Ignacio square almost empty, before everything erupted once again around 10. Today was the day the authorities put on their main show. There was a mass in the church, the priest giving out holy water and gi...

Welcome to one of the world's greatest, and most unknown, festivals. San Ignacio de Moxos was founded by the Jesuit order, a group of Spanish evangelical priests, in the late 1660s. The jesuit order being founded by a man called San Ignacio and the Moxos being the name of the ancient civilisation that ruled this region of Bolivia. For around 120 years, instead of being subjected to the horrors of Spanish colonial rule, the natives of Moxos were converted to Chr...