...the traveling sisters...: Off the radar.. Into the jungle...

So while in La Paz, Bolivia we bumped into Tim, a fellow new jersian.. who happened to live in Somerville, NJ, about 20 min away from where we grew up (yes sometimes the world is that small). The next morning, we found ourselves on an 18 hour bus ride with Tim to the amazon basin. There we spent 3 days building a puma cage for Luna, a one and a half year old puma who will be the newest addition to inti warri yassi. Inti warri yassi is a VERY new park (its actually not even considered a park yet) that takes in any animals that people have taken from the wild and realize that they cant take care of it. The goal of the park is to rehabilitate the animals and release them into the wild. Unfortunately, for the pumas, it is too late for them so they give them the best life possible at the park. Simba and Leishu are the two pumas currently at the park. Volunteers who stay for long periods of time are able to work with them... play with them, walk them, and get kitty kisses (which apparently are extremely painful... like sandpaper scraping your skin over and over... but you cant really say no to a puma who wants a kiss i guess).

Our time there was spent doing some hardcore manual labor, eating ammaazzing vegetarian food, chewing coca leaves, embracing the sweat bees that were crawling all over us, drinking from and swimming in the creek, and sleeping off a long hard days work.. only to wake up at 7 am to do it all over again. It was awesome.

We didn´t take a lot of pictures because we were working so hard, but here a few that we managed to snap...