A better view when you are closer to the edge

Remember that bike ride I made a reference to?

Here is a nice picture from that bike ride, which was very scarey. Also just an update as to where I am now, we just arrived for ourlast weekend in La Paz for a couple days of trek preparation. we aregoingto ice climbing tommarow which will surely yeild some cool photos, and then we'll be heading for our first trek site. More on that once there is a story!

WARNING

WARNING READ THIS

The below picture is 100% gross.

Not for the faint of heart.

Not For those of you here ¨Because `you want to see pictures of animals`


It Includes injections AND puss

Okay you´ve been warned...

Mom, you were right

Before I left as some of you may have caught wind of, I got my ears peirced. Something I had been thinking about for a while, my parents did not dissaprove, but chops were busted. So things were working out really well until we had some chicken fights in the swimming pool of a hostel we stayed at (not a common luxury). Despite certain taboos, I had a male as a partner on my shoulders who would not realease his vice-like thigh grip on my neck. So I had to pull this guy of me ripping one of my ear lobes a little causing pretty rapid infection. So in reference to the title, mom- when you asked ¨what happens if it gets infected?¨ and I just said ¨The same thing that would happen here¨I was waaaaaaaaaaay wrong. This picture is of one of four injection I had to numb my ear lobe so I could get the mass amount of puss removed without pain. Sorry about the graphic nature of the photo. My ear is better now, and it was my left ear so I had to keep the right one out too. In conclusion, if you were not a fan of the earings, they are gone now.

The Monkey Man

Hello blog followers,
I have finally arrived at the animal stage in the trip, but as a warning you wont be seeing the same class of pictures that I had access to in Africa. I am exclusively working with capuchin monkeys, so for the most part, that´s what you´re going to see animal wise. As for Awesome pictures though, you´ve toured the blog, and you know I´ll deliver.
So let me explain what I´m doing. I work in the Mirador which is the final stage of monkey rehabilitation at the Machia Ecotourist Animal Park. There are about seventeen monkeys that are in cages that we let out on cords for the majority of the day, and fifteen plus mokeys who are a part of the troop, but roam free without cords. So every day we take about a half hour hike to the Mirador where we feed the monkeys, move them to their respective cords, and them work on making the place more efficient. Obviously we also have quite a lot to clean.
In this picture I am trying to coax this monkey into my arms for a sweet pic, but he´s not having it. The monkeys we work with can be friendly, but interaction with non-corded monkeys is discouraged, and there area a few monkeys who are not friendly.

So I am going to be here one more week and then the group will start our trekking phase.

More to come!