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Published: June 19th 2006
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cute little yellow monkey
though went away when it realised we ain´t giving it any food! The best place to view wildlife in Bolivia…surrounded by jungle and rivers. I had high hopes!!
Someone should have, however, warned me about the 15hour bus journey getting there! Crammed in the right back corner, with a family of Bolivians and their extended family for 15 hours is uncomfortable. Not been able to open the jammed window was suffocating. Being eaten alive by invisible mosquitoes and god knows what else was enough to convince me that I was definitely getting a flight back!!!
Day1
Straight from the 15hour bus trip, onto a jeep for the next 3 hours that covered the same road that we had just come from…can no-one think of logic here!!!
Then came the boat trip throught the Pampas tour, which visits the wetland savannas…7 people in a 1metre wide long boat, powered by a motor, we cruised through channels lined with alligators and turtles, trees filled with exotic birds, waters swarming with parana fish and pink dolphins…and even anacondas!! However after the 1500th alligator, they strated to lose their appeal!!
We stayed in makeshift straw house on stilts, contaning beds with white mosquito nets, and wooden planks connecting the rooms to the kitchen and bathrooms!
That
night, we rolled down the river by boat armed with torches blinding the alligators with the light so that we can see their red retinas reflect!
Day 2
We go hunting for ANACONDAS! With knee high boots, we anchor our boat downstream. And start our walk through the muddy marshes in hunt…trudging ever carefully so that we don’t get waist deep, eventually you plummet in a hole, taking you 5 minutes to get out! Damn useless gum boots, they should make a rubber outfit! And after 3 hours…no sight of Anaconda…disappointed when most people do see them!! Then came the journey back to the boat…turns out that our guides all left us in search for the anacondas ...so it was the blind leading the blind as we got lost in attempt to get back to the boat to find the guides. Sun burning down on our dehydrated bodies, panting like dogs, we ended up in a random camp…deserted with empty water bottles standing there in mockery! We walked down further and found one of the guides beside the shore…and both our boats on the other shore…turns out some other group decided to play a joke! Waited till a passing
Claudio
sitting in front of me in the boat boat to come and rescue us! Quite funny when u look back on it!
That afternoon, took the boat out and went parana fishing! No joke! Using pieces of cow meat, we hooked them, and as soon as u threw the line in, they would start nibbling. I only caught one…and between us all, we had a feast that night!!
Alberto, our awesome guide…nicest guy you will meet, despite the previous events that day (which weren’t his fault, but the other guides´). We cruised down the river to a bar in the middle of the jungle!! Absolutely wicked. Inside, everyone chattin, drinking, people lazing in hammocks. We started drinking games- playing animal, and ring of fire…got absolutely sloshed…tried very hard not to get our guide/driver in the same state as us…turns out that our innocent guide had a huge crush on the english brunette in our group called Helen…funny night!
Day 3
Failed to wake up for sunset, but headed out after breakfast to swim with the pink dolphins that we had been seeing along the way. Apparently, they exist in only 2-3 places in the world…big dolphin like, pink in colour, and have huge foreheads…strange looking…and seem to
love to have sex…see them frolicking everywhere they go..appraently they have sex for 2 hours!!! Something out of national geographic! Dolphin porn!! Hehe
Our group of 6 people travelling for the last 2 weeks, now had a new adition- Claudio- a chilean guy living in Britain. Our group went out partying that night- Mosquito bar! Warning: drinking flaming lamboughinis will eventually lead to table top dancing…well so I started the trend! Had a huge awesome night, where everyone kept on joining our table cause we were havin so much fun!
However, on the 6/06/06 (omen day), my flight gets cancelled because of bad weather and I sit here in Rurrenbaque waiting for report as to when my next flight would be back to La Paz!!
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