Blogs from Rurrenabaque, Beni Department, Bolivia, South America

שלום לכולם! התגעגעתם? גם אנחנו!!!!!! חזרנו מטיול של 5 ימים, אך לפני שאני אספר עליו, רציתי לספר על חוויה קטנה שהיתה לנו בלהפאז. ביום שישי שעבר דימה יצא לרחובות להפאז לסידורים וחזר עם חדשות. חבדנ"יק תפס אותו בדרך וניסה לשדל לשים תפילין, דימה סירב אך הבטיח להגיע לקבלת שבת בבית חב"ד. וכך מצאנו את עצמנו ביום שישי בערב יושבים, יושבים צמוד צמוד על יד שולחנות ארוכים בבית חב"ד בלהפאז , עם עוד כ 70 ישראלים. היה אוכל, היו שירים, אנשים אפילו חלקו חוויות. סה"כ זה היה מאד יוצא דופן וכיף. היה נחמד להרגיש קצת את הבית./... read more

Tas requested we woke early at 0530. We boarded our boat all half asleep. The plan of this journey was to watch sunrise and listen to the mornng chorus of the birds and wildlife. Unfortunately it was too over cast and therefore sunrise was off the cards. But wed rifted down the river and listened to the morning chorus of the birds and howler monkeys. After breakfast Tas took us piranha fishing. Piranha fishing consists of throwing raw meat into the river attached to a hook and hoping that one is able to yank the hook up before the piranha demolish the meat. From the point of the meat entering the water and the piranha eating the meat is about 5 seconds. So whilst listening to dubstep thanks to DJ Megan we spent 2 hours trying ... read more

AAAhhh.. regardless of the mosquito net and 50% DEET I was bitten to death in the night but the slightly more alarming discovery was that of a spider bite. Now usually spiders do not really bother me but spiders that bite in the jungle are something I have a real fear off. After breakfast I showed Tas my rather enlarged knee and two very distinct entry points. He was not concerned and recommended taking antibiotics just to be sure. He said I would already be dead if it was something to worry about... excellent! So, antibiotics all the way. We all climbed back into the boat and headed to the marsh land in the search of snakes specifically anacondas and cobras. After an hour of paddling around in waist deep grassy swamp land we found an ... read more

Vanuit La Paz zijn we dan naar het noorden gevlogen, een dorpje aan het begin van het onmetelijke Amazonewoud : Rurrenabaque. Vliegen? Back to basics : twee propellers, een sigarenkistje ertussen met 20 passagiers en huppakee... Maar wel een prachtig zicht op de Andespieken rond La Paz. En dan plots : de tropische vochtigheid en warmte van de jungle. Een hele lange hobbelige tocht, dan nog drie uren met de boot : en zo arriveren we in de pampa's : een moerassig gebied, aan het begin van de Amazone. Wat hebben we gezien ? Krokodillen !!!! Duizenden !!!!! Alligators, kaaimannen, die vechten voor hun territorium. En vele vogels, apen, roze dolfijnen, schildpadden, enz. Allemaal beestjes .... De eerste dag zijn we helemaal uitgeregend : zie foto's, drogende kleren! Helaas, een wandeltocht van vele uren op zoek ... read more

Well it all startslastweek, i got out of bed at 5 am to catch my flight back to la paz... gets to the office the bus breaks down so they start tinkering with the engine get it working then they get a flat tyre! Finally after all the commotion we get to the airport but something bad was going off and there were fires and rioters blocking the runway and throwing stuff at the bus... so the bus goes back to the office and we all get told no flight today! I was a bit upset to be leaving anyway to be honest because i loved the jungle and pampas so much so i thought id head back to the agency and see if they could arrange for me to go and stay with a tribe ... read more

After my jungle adventure I booked on a 3 day tour to the Pampas, we set off on the most torturous car journey every which was 3 hours in an izuzu trooper with no air con and no suspension on a bumpy, very bumpy dirt track!!! We stopped off for lunch half way which sort of broke it up a bit but it was still pants! After the journey we then got on our boat, i was very lucky there were only 3 people in our group so it was quite cool. We set off down the river and saw an abundance of wildlife, i wouldnt be exaggarating if i said there was an allegator avery 20 meters... probably more. We saw loads of different kinds of birds and capibarra... really awesome! We stopped to pick ... read more

I´ve not felf the need to rave about any agencies or hostals etc untill now but I have really just had the most amazing 3 days in the jungle thanks to Mogli tours. I´ll start from leaving La paz, i headed out at 6am from the hostal and got a taxi to the airport, which is just a small military airport me and the taxi driver had a bit of a problem convincing the guards i actually had a flight booked... i thought for a moment they wouldnt let me in there was a lot of waving of guns and stuff, not good! So gets in the que to check in, the plane apparently holds 20 people but there were clearly more in the que which was a bit concerning but hey! Weighed the bags in ... read more