Night time camping

If you shine a torch into the water, the eyes of aligators reflect back red, like menacing cat´s eyes. To our amazement, Hector´s reaction was to climb out of the safety of the boat and grab a ´baby´ aligator (it was about 1m long!) and pull it onto the boat for us to inspect in awe. No photo unfortunately. **Christian De Groot**

Rurrenabaque

April 12th 2006
So...on to Rurrenabaque, which is the deepest into the Amazon Basin we have ventured. We decided against taking the bus for the 24hr journey across un-paved road (the route by road takes you down ´The Worlds Most Dangerous Road´again!), but instead settled on a TAM (bolivian military airline) flight. The flight itself went smoothly, and the flight crew was most attentive, serving dodgy sandwic ... read more

South America » Bolivia » Beni Department » Rurrenabaque

Bolivia, named after independence fighter Simon BOLIVAR, broke away from Spanish rule in 1825; much of its subsequent history has consisted of a series of nearly 200 coups and counter-coups. Comparatively democratic civilian rule was established in 1... ... read more

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