The last week on the Bear Project

So hopefully in this last week on the Bear Project we will come across a bear, but if not, it has still been a really cool experience. One of the funnest things is getting to know a different community and culture. Even today, me (Claire) and Stacey went along to this thing called a ´minga´ where the community decide a certain project that needs to take place for community benefit. Today it was clearing the road of overgrowing trees with machetes because the cars and buses were having trouble driving through some parts of the road. Hard work though.

After we are finished here, we are going to go south in Ecuador to the Poor Mans Galapagos Islands (as the real one costs heaps!). It looks really cool though and has pretty much all the species on the real island, and you can see animals like dolphins, howler monkeys, whales, and those birds called boobies that dance around. So we will just chill there for a week before meeting up with the fourth Amiga Nicola and catching a flight up to Cartagena at the top of Colombia. There we will
probably be spending most of our time eating seafood, at the beach and exploring around the place. We also want to go and see the Lost City up there (very Indiana Jones). Think it is about a six day hike, hopefully our practice here comes in handy!

That´s about all I can think of to write right now! Oh hang on, how could I forget, this morning I woke up to a slug on my eyelid. An actual slug. On my eyelid.

Ciao!

Claire