Fishing for Sardines in the Jungle

Rurre - My Adventure with the Incredible Hulk

---

June 7th 2006
I spent a day chilling in Coroico before taking a bus to Rurrenabaque, which is a town in the Amazon Basin. It was another eventful bus ride. The bus was coming from La Paz and turned up 4 hours late. Somewhere along the way it had run out of fuel. It then got a flat tire. By this time it was nightfall. The road we were on was very much like the "world's most dangerous road" that I tried to ... 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