San Augustin, Colombia

San Augustin, Colombia

It takes 6 hours to travel 100kms by bus over a spectacular but incredibly bumpy road, the smart locals hog the front seats so we draw the short straw flying around the back.  I worry for the box of chickens in the shelf above us, they don’t sound very happy either - its our first experience travelling with animals, a novelty for now.  Half-way we stop at a little smoke-filled shack to be filled with a $1 lunch, the soup usually always has a big chunk of bony meat sitting in it that I never eat and am sure it gets recycled into the pot when we leave!  Sometimes I smuggle it out and treat a stray dog.

Bangkok Hospital Visit

Arriving back in Thailand with just one day before I flew out to Burma I suddenly began to worry about my right leg and foot. I now had a series of cuts, bites and incisions that had swelled, were pussing and were very sore. The original cut from the rope-swing at Vang Viang had still not healed, I had three mosquito bites that I had scratched and seemed to be growing by the day, a big cut on the top of my foot from smashing it on a rock swimming in Ko Tao, and a small but widening hole on my big toe that was producing a substantial amount of pus and was now really painful to walk on, that I had got standing on a piece of coral in Ko Phangan.