We are on the last day of our second stint of volunteering. this time in teh cloud forest on the western flanks of the andes. The farm where we have been staying is called La Hesperia and has been a biological reserve for 20 years. It is set in a fabulous location at 1,300m in a deep rivervalley surrounded by pristine cloud forest. It is a totally different set up to our previous work in Tsuraku. There were lots of volunteers from Canada, the US, Ireland, Sweden ...

Hi everyone. great to get all your messages and emails, keep them coming! To el presidente if everything is going so smoothly at work mikes thinking of staying away a little bit longer! We have had a couple of extra days in Quito because there were no buses going to our next destination because of the mardi gras festival. Never mind two extra nights of relative luxury and a day visiting a volcano and some museum culture. We are definitely off to the cloud fore...

Hello from the jungle, actually we are writing this from quito as we have been cut off from technology for three weeks. We have been staying in a small community 51 kms south of Puyo in the middle of the jungle at bout 3000ft above sea level so the days are really hot but the nights are cool. The journey here on 31 Jan took more than 8 hours and involved two buses with the last hour being on unmetalled roads and we arrived in the middle of a thunderstorm. The bus...

Hi everyone, we made it to Ecuador from cuba on saturday and are off to the jungle tomorrow so we thought we´d better drop you aquick postcard but we haven´t been able to down load any photos yet. We saw the panama canal when we flew into panama city for a change of plane. Having been deprived of newspapers and bookes for four weeks Harriet was keen to get her hands on some reading material but all the shops in the air port were full of electrical goo...

Here is our last postcard from Cuba. We leave hopefully tomorrow and expect to arrive in Quito during the evening. We have enjoyed our time in cuba andit will be quite a difference moving from 31 degrees at sea level to less than 20 degrees at 10,000 feet! We are not sure how often we will be able to get to update the blog over the next six weeks but we will when we can. Do keep in touch through the message board or email and we will reply asap. We think we are...