25th Feb - 11th March Days 1-3: I was on the bird section for the first three days. Many species of Parrots. This is the routine I followed: 8-9:30 clean & feed birds 10:30 - 13:30 enrichment, cook vegetables & bird cake for their dinner 14:30-17:00 prepare food, clean and then feed the birds. There was a lot of standing around with birds as preparing the food didn't take that long and enrichment opportunities were limited. Most of the day was s...

20th - 24th Feb We arrive, check in and take out clothes to the laundrette fingers crossed they come back a) clean b) the same size c) that they even come back haha!! We headed to the immigration office to extend our visa by 30 days, which was hassle free and took about 2 minutes!! We then wandered around the city and headed back to the hostel. For dinner we went to Oliver's Traditional English Pub & Grub. I had classic fish and chips, the fish came from l...

17th Feb - 19th Feb We had booked a 2 night 3 day trip to the Salar de Uyuni. We were in a group of 5 with 2 german guys and an American guy (who was fluent in Spanish so could translate for us BONUS!!) as they were all over 6ft we gave them the front seats so we were cramped in the back of the jeep - at times we regretted being so nice haha!!! Day 1: Our first stop was the "train graveyard". Many years ago Uyuni was covered in precious minerals so to easily...

Lets begin where we finished... arriving into Bolivia. We thought everything would be ok, we got our exit and entrance stamp from Brazil & Bolivia and got a taxi to the bus station to pick up our tickets we had bought the previous day in Corumba by a company that had been recommended to us by the guy we booked our pantanal trip with... but no!! far from it!!!!! We gave in our receipt and they said they had never heard of this company before and that the tic...