Blogs from Rurrenabaque, Beni Department, Bolivia, South America - page 19

The days they pass by in slow motion when you resist, and vanish like breath when you let go. Our expedition into the Bolivia have provided Stacy and I a handful of both types of days. Our first hour in La Paz, the highest capital city in the world, resulted in the worst experience with a cash machine ever, but we were still able to book a tiny propplane to the town of Rurrenabaque and a river boat tour in the amazon pampas. Pampas is the equivelant to savanah ecosystems with wide expanses of tall grasses carved up by meandering rivers enshrouded by thick tropical riparian forest. It is these rivers that provided the pathways of our three day tour by a long canoe like boat that was fjorded by outboard and our guide Jamie. These ... read more

To get to the Western Bolivian Amazon and the town of Rurrenabaque, you can either a) take a 20 hour (if its not raining) bus ride on a dirt road or b) a 40 minute flight. We opted for the flight. Often flights to Rurrenabaque are cancelled due to poor weather and then all the other flights are pushed back for hours or days to fit in the cancelled flights. We met quite a few people in La Paz who were waiting for their flights to be re-scheduled. Luckily our flight to Rurre took off as planned. And the excitement didn't end there. We were flying in a 15 passenger propeller plane over the Andes and their wind gusts and when we got to Rurre...we landed on a grass landing strip. It was a little nerve-wracking, ... read more

So got to the airport no probs and then boarded our tiny tiny plane. Two people per isle, had to bend double to walk on. Flight was really fun, amazing view going over the Andes, so close to the snow capped mountains, was actually a little scary. Landing was really fun/concerning, weaving through the air down onto a dirt/grass runway. Was feeling pretty sick by the time we´d landed (mainly due to yesterday) and was sooo hot and sticky, even before they opened the door of the plane! Airport left a little to be desired, just a house, was really cool. Rurrenabaque is really cool, good ol´ jungle town. The center is a little touristy but nothing compared to Cuzco. Booked a tour to the Pampas straight away for the next day. Up at 7am, got ... read more

We finally arrived in Rurrenabaque, after 2 days of waiting for a flight. Our plane was a 20 seat Cessna, and it was quite a bumpy ride, but we arrived safe and sound. It´s hot and humid here, kind of like in Tel Aviv, but it´s a beautiful place, with lots of green around. For some reason not all of us went on the same plane, so hopefully everyone will get here, and we´ll all meet up. We´ll go on a Pampas tour tomorrow or on the day after.... read more

Hello to all, We are still here in Bolivia and after the last blog we headed north to Rurrenabaque to see some wildlife. Rurrenabaque is a town set in the Amazon and it was either at least 20 hours on the bus or a 45 minute flight with the military, so a bit of a no brainer! It was an amazing flight from La Paz over the Andes touching down in Rurrenabaque on a grass runway with the Amazon as the backdrop. After settling in we booked a 3 day pampas tour in the Amazon, we got lucky as there was no-one else in our group so we had the boat and guide to ourselves. The tour company we went with had their own ecolodge which we stayed at for the 3 days, they managed to ... read more