Video!!! Us getting attacked by our beloved Pumas

This is Micah getting nailed by Roy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8HbaH8v6ss

And Kahlil by Simba
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slrivTkU694

And a few updates

Some facts about Bolivia:

They drive like madmen - taxis load up to ten people or more and leave the boot open as they drive at speeds of over 140kmph, and no-one wears seatbelts.

Its noisy - as testament we leave a listof sounds heard at any moment in our residence of Las Vegas. Disco thumping, TV blaring, Baby wailing, Heavy metal thrashing, Fucking bingo barkng at every second person tat walks past, crickets screeching incessantly, rooster crowingatall times of day or night...

They are obsessed with chicken, some of the cochabaman eateries: Tourist Chicken, All Chicken, Chicken Sensation, Hong Kong Chicken (bolivian style), Chicken Chris, Chicken Banana, just to name a few.

An odd place indeed.

Kahlil

Enter SIMBA! and friends

Meet Rico the oscelot.

Simba again, fresh from a swim in the river.

This is another Puma by the name of Gato (which means cat in spanish)

A beautiful Simba, same spot where he gave me a goodbye thrashing that lefta few minor scars. He looks so placid...
kahlil

Enter... Roy!

Er heller!
I thawd i saw a puddy tad!
El Senor Roy... with my co-volunteer Matt, and enjoying his sunday stroll.

Welcome to the Jungle! (written by Micah!)

Horlor listeners!
We have been in Villa Tunari, and Inti Wara Yassi for amost two weeks now! Our bodies are feeling the beat! My Puma´s name is Roy... he is the biggest meanest pussy in the park!!! I have found out he is stronger than me... as he has pulled me over and dragged Matt my companero down a bank... we have bruises and grazes a plenty, not to mention the puma bites and claws! He is a mini lion... but really he is a big softy, I call him Reverend Loveroy! We cohort through jungle traiils at an average 8kms an hour attatched to this beast... he does what he wants and we are his bitches! It is very taxing work and by the end of the day all we want to do is drink beer and relax... and hit the hay. It feels a biut like work at timnes as there aint no such thing as a day off for the month we are here... but the Pumas are getting to know us and the more time we spend the more rewarding and closer to them you can get! It is really quite the experience of a lifetime. I am working on getting him to love me and playing with the schnoonoo...
Kahlil has had the grand privelidge of being an Alpha Male for a bunch of Spider monkeys... We have stayed in a room that used to belong to a sloth! we have moved up in the world now though...
Villa Tunari is set in idyllic jungle hazey mists all the time and when the sun sets
myriad upon myriad of undulating skylines appear further and higher off in the distance. It is a kind of a truckstop town, but has a disco that the volunteers at the park frequent on a sat night... Kahlil has been strutting his stuff on the dancefloor attracting the attention of many a bolivian!
Bats and fireflies and night monkeys frequent the night, too many to list frequent the day... I have seen one baby Jaguar and an Ocelot of note...
Rum and coconut juice and guitar music are the features of the evenings...and not quite so shit hot bolivian food, which consists of basically chicken, rice chips, beef, and eggs. But we love it!!!!!! The bolivian people here are a little scornful of whiteys at times, but the pace of life is slow and I love their relaxed attitude to life in the jungle
Kia kaha to thy all and get your asses to south america asap! It rules the world!
We´ll be here in Inti Wara Yassi for two more weeks at least...
photos and videos of pumas to come!!!!!

Inti wari assi

HI there

No photos just now sorry, but amazing ones to follow.

Micah and I are currently in Inti Wari Assi wildlife refuge as volunteers. We are both working with pumas. We spend all day walking a puma through the amazon jungle (I walk, micah runs). We have seen everything:

Tortises, pumas, jaguars, tejones, squirrels, armadilloes, mcaws, snakes, spider monkeys, capuchin and squirrel monkeys, howler monkeys, honybears, lizards, leaf cutter ants, etc etc. This place is just alive. Its hot too. Lovely.

The work is physically taxing, but rewarding. We get eaten by all sorts of bugs as repellent is forbidden. The odd munch by our pumas is quite standard too.

Off toi party now, its FRIDAY NIGHT!!!

Kahlil