¡Hola! So, time to write something about what's been going on here for the last month or so.Throughout February the whole of South America becomes obsessed with the annual Carnaval festivities, and Bolivia is no exception.In fact, the main event we went to here was in Oruro, which is renowned for being one of the best places to see Carnaval in the whole continent, outside of Rio de Janeiro. In the end there were at least four or five Carnaval-related events goi...

¡Hola! Well I can see that these blogs are gonna get fewer and farther between now, what with us both having settled in Cochabamba.I'm sure Sarah will write a blog about her visit to Argentina in February, and I'll definitely have something to write about Carnival in Bolivia; but, until then, here's what's been going on since Christmas. Having returned from Villa Tunari, and the rigours of walking a puma every day, I immersed myself in the mercifully comfo...

¡Hola! As Rob said, for the last month we have been working on separate volunteer projects. I´ve been living and working in one of Bolivia´s main cities, Cochabamba and volunteering at an environmental NGO called the CEDESOL Foundation. CEDESOL is a not-for-profit organisation that focuses on renewable energy, alternative education and health by primarily designing, building and promoting ecological cookers. CEDESOL build two types of ecological cooker: the m...

¡Hola! PG: this blog is a little less family-friendly than normal, so you may want to give it a quick check first before reading it with the kids :) Well, long-time no-write, but that is because both Sarah and I have been busy volunteering at separate projects in Bolivia for the last four weeks.Sarah is going to write a blog about what she has been up to I'm sure, but in the meantime here is what I was doing: I left Cochabamba and headed East into the j...

¡Hola! The Amazon jungle is massive (no pun intended) and we had the choice of exploring it from Colombia, Ecuador, Peru or Bolivia.We'd heard great things about the Amazon further North, but it was all a bit expensive; it was a lot cheaper to go into the jungle from Rurrenabaque in Bolivia.There were two options for getting there from La Paz: taking a 16-24 hour bus journey (depending on conditions) along the 'world's most dangerous road' for about £5, or t...