Text by Chris Smith (instructor) and photos by Elizabeth Brunner (instructor), unless otherwise noted. On April 15th, with five days of heads-stuck-in-computers behind us and finals over, we started our travels toward our last and final destination: Cerro Kamuk. With…

By Henry Dodge (Colby College)   HQ! It’s hard to believe that this program is coming to an end and we’ve all been reflecting on the good times we’ve had over the last few months. We are currently back at…

By Esther Daranciang, Westminster College   We hiked into the Parajeles property from the main road with the help of one of the sons, Javier, and two horses to carry our food. As we hiked down through the secondary forest between…

Written by Katie Goodwin, University of New Hampshire (Photos by Katie Goodwin, unless otherwise noted)   On the morning of March 22nd, we packed our bags and boxes of groceries onto a bus headed for the small community of Rancho Quemado…

By Mary Sellars (Northland College)   After seven weeks residing in the Botswana bush and being tempted and excited by lion roars as we fell asleep and massive lion tracks passing by camp, the anticipation of actually seeing a lion…