Hi everyone! It´s been a long time since we last blogged so we´ll try to be brief. After we last wrote, we left Cusco to go to Puno, a city on the shore of Lake Titicaca. After a hilarious journey to the port in "taxis" which were essentially benches attached to the front of a bicycle, we ventured out by boat onto Lake Titicaca. Our first stop was the island of Amantani where we spent the first night with a local family, in a house without electrici...

Hey lovely people, Since we last wrote quite a lot has happened (massive understatement!) because we haven´t been able to blog for ages. So we´ll try to remember all the important bits! We met up with our group on the 10th April - they are all really friendly but there is a huge range of ages! We are the youngest, and the oldest is a 70 year old guy called Robert, who we love! Our tour leader, Pepe, and an Australian girl called Lara are in their 20s, so we´...

Hi everyone. The last week in Gandoca continued pretty much as usual but with many more turtles as it got closer to the peak nesting season. We had a couple of interesting events occur before we left - a secret wedding and discovering that we were illegally residing in Costa Rica for about 5 days! On Thursday, the grandmother of the family we were living with told us that the next day Maria and Lalo (our host parents who we assumed were already married) were pl...

Hola! So we're back in Puerto Viejo which we love and are still having a great time! Since last time we've all seen turtles laying eggs on the beach and as there are fewer volunteers this week we've been able to get more involved. We feel like we've done a LOT of walking along the beach though so we're definitely getting some exercise (makes a change!). Yesterday we went to Punta Mona which is a really pretty place to swim. We've been told not to swim close to w...

Hola! We're in an Internet cafe in Puerto Viejo, a really cool town about 2 hours from where we're staying in Gandoca. It's apparently "the Rasta town where reggae rules"! Last Sunday we arrived at 10pm local time in San Jose (after 24 hours with no sleep!) and got told we had to get up at 4:30am for a day's minibus ride to Gandoca - not very welcome news!! When we arrived, we met the family we're staying with whle we're here, who are really lovely ...