Just got back from a few days in the Amazon, Villa Tunari to be exact, and it went more or less swimmingly. Villa was a remarkably ugly town, considering the surroundings, and offered little in terms of diversions. We did, however, visit the Inti Wara Yassi animal refuge. It is a shelter for abused and previously domesticated wild animals (the main culprits being hotels and the circus...not to mention the exceedingly nasty black market that exists for tropical animals) and it was a totally incredible slice of jungle. The animals, who are eerily not afraid of humans, will literally hop in your lap. Case in point the monkeys that cooly walked up to Caitlin and I, climbed up our legs and made themsevles quite comfortable on our shoulders. I, for one, have never had a monkey within twenty feet of me, let alone sitting on my neck. They were so responsive, interactive and personable. One of the monkeys in an attempt to break into the nearby parrot cage, which had loads of food, used a leaf in mimicry of a key in his failed robbery. I wish desperately I had footage of this. I would just run it on loop and force as many intelligent design, right wing Christian fanatics to watch it as possible. The way those creatures interact with us and each other is not a whole lot different than a 14 year old boy early in the morning. I´m convinced .
There are pictures of the monkey adventures. They will be up soon. For now, we wait until our visas are ready on Thursday. Tomorrow is the Santa Cruz referendum for autonomy. Twill be really interesting to see how the country responds. Violence, indifference, chaos, a giant love-in? we shall see.
Until then
Jaron
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In the seattle times today, sunday, there was a thorough article on the referendum that is taking place in santa cruz.....i did not know that other areas including cochabamba will have similar votes.......how morales handles all this will be fascinating and i sense most of north america does not have a clue what this is about or its implications.......have you come to any conclusions yourself ? will the military be used to suppress the vote or "the cause" ? it seems that US foreign policy is looking to undermine Morales and is supporting the movement in favor of the referendum........is there any anti-american sentiment as a result ? hope you enjoyed The Monkeys :).........daddy'0
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