After a day of rest from traveling, we headed to Cestor Beatriz / Caguas, where we met Gaby on his farm. On the farm, we got to work on various projects, including harvesting mesclun, planting tomatoes, and pulling weeds. All while learning about farming on a slope. Furthermore, we practiced our Spanish and learned how...
Today we visited Jungle Mike who found success by dedicating his career to insects. We visited his local open air butterfly farm home to many different species of butterflies. We learned about butterflies eye-spots and how they use them to scare prey. We also learned about the special toxins in the plants some butterflies eat...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text letter_spacing=””]Starting off the day, we traveled to a few monasteries, Lhamo Tse and Dotje Drek, that were close to the hotel in which we spent the night. These monasteries were incredibly interesting, but I’d like to take a moment to describe one moment in particular. As we left our first monastery, sheep wool that monks...