Laura coleman the puma years

Without spoiling the book, there are details of the heartbreaking challenges that the sanctuary faces, forest fires being one of them. Bonding with both people and animals, in particular Wayra the puma. The book is an inspiring story of how Laura overcomes her self-doubt and her initial reservations about life at the Bolivian sanctuary, to falling in love with being there. But somehow she finds herself agreeing to stay on for longer in order to care for one of the sanctuary’s big cats, a puma named Wayra. Not even to mention the spider the size of a teacup that lives in the ramshackle toilet.

When she first arrives at the sanctuary, Comunidad Inti Wara Yassi, she is startled by just how brutal the living conditions are: the rancid smell, the copious amounts of mud, the mosquitos, the stale and bug infested food and the waist-high swamps. She then spontaneously decides to go and volunteer for a couple of weeks an animal sanctuary in Bolivia. After some months, she grew fed up of backpacker life. In her twenties and feeling rather directionless in life, Laura quit her job to backpack South America. The Puma Years is the memoir of Laura Coleman.