And here I am - back in La Paz!   This is the second time I am actually ¨coming back¨ to a place in this trip. It feels a bit like coming home... familiar smell, places and faces. This time I am no longer alone, and I am already half through! I tried to get back to the Loki hostel but it was fully booked, so I stayed at the nice Gloria hotel. Not too fancy...  Well, I decided to do 2 more things here before I go to explore the Rurrenabaque jungle and Pampas ...

Park Machia - day number 30 Today was my last day in Park Machia. Sonko was amazingly good, the weather was lovely and everything was calm and nice.I took some time to photograph other animals, and I uploaded some nice videos here as well... I really recommend watching them as I only uploaded the most interesting ones (Sonko trying to eat Clancy, Sonko gives me some petting time, Captain Jack the Tucan enjoys petting etc). So what did I do there for 30 days?* Hel...

21 days in the jungle.Yes! Today is my day off… I´ve been working for 21 days with no time off. We can´t afford days off, working with the animals, so each one gets only 1 day every 2 weeks. Today it was mine! Finally I can wake up late and do whatever I want (and not walk in the muddy jungle all day long). Unfortunately – they had some sort of a strike today so almost all the shops and the restaurants were closed in the village! 21 days of walking ...

Vamos Sonko!This is my most common phrase in the past 2 weeks. Yes, my lazy puma has to be constantly motivated in order to get going. I feel like a puma´s personal trainer, trying to get 16Km a day from him, while he´s only interested in sleeping and getting his food! Almost 2 weeks have passed since I got to this park. My beard is much thicker, I´ve been bitten/stung/eaten by every possible jungle bug there is (mosquitoes, sand flies, sweat flies and probabl...

Park Machia What a bizarre place...I´ve been here for 7 days and I still can´t believe it. I´m walking in the Bolivian jungle with a wild puma named Sonko (meaning ¨Heart¨ In Kechuan), who´s attached to my waist with a 5M rope… People here are working hard feeding birds, cleaning monkey´s cages, walking pumas and chasing ocelots who tend to hunt anything that moves.The park holds 1 bear, 3 pumas, many capuchins and spider monkeys, several tejons an...