Rurrenabaque and the junglist massive: Photos 21 to 28

We've been on the road now for about 3 months, more or less, and the whole time we've been up in the mountains (except for the Galapagos excursion, which was something of a holiday within a holiday). Many moons ago my good friend Pete had also travelled these parts, and the one recommendation that I remembered was that we should go to Rurrenabaque, or Rurre as it's more often called. Having spent so much time up in the clouds we were looking forward to getting down to jungle level, and seeing some of the teeming wildlife that we'd heard and read much about.

The journey there was, well, different. We'd biked down from La Paz to Coroico and from there caught a bus bound for Rurre. It was claimed that this bus had toilets and fully reclining seats, but none too surprisingly it had neither, and we didn't seem to have reserved seats either. Not easily put off, we sat at the back of the bus and marvelled at the narrowness of the road and sheer drops that awaited the unwary. If we'd biked down "The Most Dangerous Road in the World", what the hell was this?!? It made for

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Fair play to Em i would have been down on my arse crossing that "bridge" no question! I can see why this takes so long it is absolutely amazing!

Great that you spotted a Gruff. There was a TV programme last night called Planet Earth and they were saying how rare it is to see a Gruff these days, in fact they are almost extinct. Good work !

Fair play to Em i would have been down on my arse crossing that "bridge" no question! I can see why this takes so long it is absolutely amazing!

Great that you spotted a Gruff. There was a TV programme last night called Planet Earth and they were saying how rare it is to see a Gruff these days, in fact they are almost extinct. Good work !