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By Team Condor
December 7th 2009

San Pedro de Atacama to Uyuni to La Paz to Rurrenabaque! South America » Bolivia » Beni Department » Rurrenabaque

Hmmmm, was sure I´d added another entry but apparently not. Therefore this´ll have to be a mega catch up page again. San Pedro De Atacama is a serious desert town. It´s also big on tourists, with something like 50% of the people you see on the streets being gringos. I arrived about half a day in front of Jen and Hector and went off to find the hostel I´d booked (through Hostelworld.com of course!). The Purpirica Hostel had really good reviews in Hostelworld, but when I eventually found it I was VERY disappointed! It´s way out of town, past the cemetery [View Full Entry]

By chrisandnatSA
November 4th 2009

The awesome Amazon basin! South America » Bolivia » Beni Department » Rurrenabaque

Most people arriving for a tour of the Amazon would be well prepared in advance - drink plenty of fluids the night before, get a good nights sleep and brace yourself for the humidity, heat and general uncomfortable ness of Amazon life. Not us. Drink fluids we did the night before, just the wrong type, and lots of the wrong type. And so on the morning of our flight (the night after our hostel trivia quiz and celebratory shots at winning best team name) to Rurrenabaque a small town in the Beni region of North East Bolivia from where we would [View Full Entry]

By The Sapir Family
November 2nd 2009

Bolivia - Rurrenabaque and the Pampas South America » Bolivia » Beni Department » Rurrenabaque

Capybara

Hi it is Nitzan and I am going to write a long blog. From La Paz we drived 20 hours in a bus to a small town called Rurenabaque. There we found a hostel that was full of Israelis but we had no choice. The next morning we found an agency to go to the Pampas.The Pampas is a kind of a savanna.The next morning we woke up early and got on the way with our group to the Pampas. We drived in a jeep for three hours and on the way we saw lots of hawks, eagles, and even one [View Full Entry]

By Jmo
October 26th 2009

Pampas Tour and the "Road of Death" South America » Bolivia » Beni Department » Rurrenabaque

Last Friday, 23/10 I arrived in La Paz from Copacabana. I spent pretty much the entire day trying to obtain my Paraguayan Visa--which I recently found out was actually a planning mistake and now Im traveling to Paraguay because I feel that I HAVE to, given the expense. I took the 6:15 flight from La Paz to the jungle town of Rurrenabaque, which borders Parque Nacional Madidi. Even making the flight was very lucky, as there had been rain for several days prior, and flights cannot land in Rurre after rain because it is made of dirt. The flight in itself [View Full Entry]

By Ben and Clare
October 2nd 2009

Rurrenabaque: In The Jungle... South America » Bolivia » Beni Department » Rurrenabaque

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The flight to Rurrenabaque from La Paz was just 35 minutes and took us from the freezing snow covered mountains to the steaming hot jungle. After the excitement of the Death Road, we decided to spend the day lazing around in the comfortable hammocks in the Hotel Oriental and booking our pampas tour for the next day. The tour companies all seemed to offer pretty much the same trip - 3 days and 2 nights on the river watching the wildlife - and so we went with a company called Dolphin who we had been told were pretty good. The next [View Full Entry]

By mchan
October 1st 2009

Pampas: wildlife extravaganza South America » Bolivia » Beni Department » Rurrenabaque

our 4x4

We´re back from our 3 day trip to the Pampas (amazon lowlands)! The trip was great (the weather could´ve been better, but oh well) because we were able to see a lot of wildlife. We were skeptical that we´d be able to see all the wildlife they advertised, but we weren´t disappointed at all. I´ll get to that in a little bit. The first day was quite tiring because Myra and I had to wake up at 4:00 to catch a 6:15 flight from La Paz to Rurrenabaque. It sounds like an unimaginable hour to wake up at, but we´ve had [View Full Entry]

By Christina a german downunder
September 28th 2009

Heading into the Jungle and down the Death Road South America » Bolivia » Beni Department » Rurrenabaque

The Most Dangerous Road in the World - near La Paz, Bolivia

Heading into the Jungle and down the Death Road Funny - time seems to fly when you work hard but when travelling one would assume time is travelling slower. I can confirm that is NOT the case! We are now 55 days into our trip and I need to do some catching up on our travel stories. From our last trip to the Salt Flats we went to La Paz - officially Bolivia´s capital at 3660m. The first view of La Paz was breathtaking. The city is located at the base of several mountains and houses are built all the way [View Full Entry]

By barnsleylad
August 16th 2009

The Jungle South America » Bolivia » Beni Department » Rurrenabaque

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The are two options for those visiting Rurrenabaque: A pampas tour or a jungle tour. Nearly all the tour operators were pushing the pampas tour, and nobody seemed interested in taking us into the jungle. However, since we had come to see the Amazon rainforest, it seemed strange to then only visit the pampas. Wer wanted to see big trees and were also under the impression that the pampas tour would be very busy with large tour goups. So when one of the operators we talked to finally got excited about the jungle and told us it would be a much [View Full Entry]

By Franner
July 23rd 2009

Pampas Adventure South America » Bolivia » Beni Department » Rurrenabaque

Journey from Hell!

Our adventure started as soon as we tried to board our 18hr bus journey from La Paz to Rurrenbaque, we were told to go to the office around the corner due to a slight problem with our tickets. After 5 mins of confusion we were advised that there were only two seats available! However, there were four of us gringos wanting to get on this bus….mmmm slight problemo! I thought that’s it we’re not getting on this bus, but surprisingly after a few more phone calls we received new tickets and told to board the bus. All was ok, that was [View Full Entry]

By Brimster
July 21st 2009

Rurre and the jungle canopy! South America » Bolivia » Beni Department » Rurrenabaque

The group having a last party in Rurre...

On return to Rurre from the Pampas we were all buzzing however it was time to start saying our goodbyes as Cinthya was heading out on a flight to La Paz that evening and Dave was following the next morning. The six of us booked ourselves into the same hostel and whilst doing this Cinthya rolled up telling us her flight had been canceled due to the weather so she had to stay the night. A shower was the first item on the list for Sharon and I and the second was a beer. After telling the rest of the guys [View Full Entry]

Another view of Rurre streets with the rainforest in the background

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