¡Hola! There have been so many things going over the last few weeks leading up to my leaving Cochabamba, including the departure of so many important people and good friends, not least Sarah of course, but also a string of very good friends, such as Mirka, Lene, Martin, Hannah, Julia, Josh, Agur, Bríd, Adrienne and John Loveday.Of course, I am myself leaving behind some very, very good friends in Cochabamba who I am already missing so much: Devan, Alan and Eri...

¡Hola! Well last week was Spring Break: my one holiday from school this semester.So myself and three friends from Sustainable Bolivia - Bríd, Agur and Adrienne - headed down to Tupiza, near the Argentine border, for a four-day jeep trip up to the Salar de Uyuni. Tupiza is a blinkin' long way away, so we had to first head by bus to Oruro (where we had watched the Carnaval back in February) and catch an overnight train to Tupiza.There are very few railways in B...

¡Hola! Last weekend I went to a 'nearby' national park, called Toro Toro, with six others from Sustainable Bolivia.The road out to this area is notorious for being washed away whenever there is a storm, but we were very lucky and had nothing but blue skies the whole weekend. Our hostel was a sweet little place with lots of flowers in the garden, loads of very anti-social but very pretty pedigree cats, and a very weird but adorable pedigree dog.On the Satur...

¡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...