Blogs from Rurrenabaque, Beni Department, Bolivia, South America - page 18

voilà, je suis vivant et en amazonie ! Temps magnifique ce matin sur La Paz, pas un nuage, 12-15 degres et enfin les montagnes enneigees alentours visibles depuis la ville, spectacle superbe ! Puis en partance pour l'aeroport par les chemins les plus improbables sinon, il faut que le chauffeur paye "l'autopista")... Une pelluche de dinausore, une de grenouille et... probablement la meuf de tourty dans la voiture ! Ceux qui le connaisse apprecierons de savoir qu'il n'est pas seul et peux desormais esperer avoir une descendance... ! Aeroport, enregistrement et embarquement dans un avion... de manege ? Je tenais pas debout dedans, 20 places assises, le cockpit ouvert pour aprecier le paysage par le parebrise ! Quand c'est petit ca bouge un peu plus, alors on regarde le pilote papoter tramquillement avec le co', pointer ... read more

Take 2.......had just finished the blog for this place & then kicked the off switch by accident & so lost it....so here I go again. So much for automatic saving!! Rurrenabaque is a town in the northern part of Bolivia with jungle & grasslands (known as the pampas) all around. It is also papaya & banana-growing country too......so even if there wasn´t a whole lot to do I was happy out sitting in the market slurping papaya shakes!!! Most travellers come here to do a pampa tour &/or jungle tour. I arranged to do a tour of the pampas & after a night in a grotty hostel I headed off on the dusty bumpy road to the point where our tour began. The 3-day trip involves travelling in a motorised dug-out canoe along a river & ... read more

...Welcome to the jungle, Swimming with Pink Dolphins, Lake Titicaca, and the most dangerous road in the world... Hello So anyway, I was in La Paz last time and I hinted towards a trip up to Rurrenabaque which indeed took place. We had booked ourselves a fifty minute flight to take us up to to this small town north of La Paz. The reason was to take in a little venture around the amazon basin in a similar trip to what we did at the Pantanal, only with a Bolivian twist and one we greatly anticipated. After the flight on the worlds smallest plane had landed on the runway that lacked any tarmac, sweltered under the change in climate and then took a three hour jeep to the river. From here it was another three hours ... read more

What better way to break away from the crazy city of La Paz than to visit the beggining of the Amazon rainforest. Also known as ´The Pampas´, these wetlands go on for miles and miles in rainy season (which we were lucky enough to be in) and has to be one of the most remote places that we have ever been! img= http://photos-h.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v252/145/67/223401787/n223401787_6227415_8477.jpg center No runways - you could tell that we´d landed somewhere remote! After taking a flight from La Paz to Rurrenabaque (we did have the option of a twenty-four hour bus along windy trails similar to the infamous ´death road´ - no thanks!), we were picked up bright and early by our tour agency and set off ... on a 3 hour jeep ride along bumpy - and we mean bumpy - dirt ... read more

Bolivia is just such a country of contrasts. One day you will be gasping for breath in the high altitude of La Paz, the next down into the tropical, humid air of the jungle. This was how it was when i finally arrived in Rurrenabaque, coming off the 19.5 hour bus journey feeling, well not that fresh really. Rurre is a totally different feeling town to anywhere else i have been in Bolivia. Even more laid back, if thats even possible! I got picked up by motorbike taxi from the bus station. Me and 2 rucksacs on the back of the motorbike, and i didn´t even fall off! The town is a small place in the middle of the jungle,on the edge of a big river. It has a real kind of Apocolypse Now feel to ... read more