Blogs from Amboro National Park, Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia, South America

Cette semaine à l’association, nous avons participé à un atelier sur la commercialisation avec la CIOEC. Paul et moi avons pu présenter notre projet d’AMAP aux responsables des communautés paysannes qui avaient fait le déplacement. Notre proposition a été plutôt bien accueillie, et les gens de l’association étaient contents de notre prestation à l’oral. Bref, que du positif ! Et puis ce week-end, la toussaint (le 2 Novembre ici) tombait un dimanche, alors les boliviens ont refait le coup du « on va dire qu’en fait ça tombe lundi » pour avoir leur jour férié. Nous ça nous arrange, comme on n’a pas beaucoup le temps de voyager, on en a profité pour partir trois jours en expédition dans le parc naturel d’Amboro. Vendredi soir, on prend donc le bus de nuit pour Santa Cruz, notre ... read more

Dneska rano se odehral takovy maly zazrak - nas pruvodce rekl, ze se potkame v 7 a skutecne tam i byl na minutu presne!!! jeste jsme meli maly problem s domaci, ktera chtela zaplatit - asi ji doslo, ze psi lejna se nam moc nelibily a asi budeme delat problemy. Rekli jsme ji, ze zaplatime az se vratime. Nasedli jsme do dzipu a asi hodinu se prokousavali dzungli, brodili asi 4 ricky. Pak uz jen sama dzungle, my v ni, nechani na pospas hmyzu a zveri. Vsude zeleno, dusno a spousta letajiciho hmyzu ci ceho. Videli jsme nejake ptaky, tarantule, stovky motylu, stopy tapiru, jelena, pumy a krik opic. Mravenci jsou vsudypritomni a jakmile se na chvili zastavite, uz po vas lezou jako po strome nebo se podivate pod nohy a vidite mravenci dalnici primo pod ... read more

Wheather was not really much better today, but whatever! I wanted to see cloud forest and spend some energy! Luckily, a hardy troupe of 2 british, 1 american and 1 israeli, as well as even more hardy Carmelo the guide wanted to be out and about in the cloud forest as well, so off we went. And it was soo worth it! As if to reward as for being the only tourists (well, we all prefer "travellers", don't we?) venturing out into the Amboro National Park, it didn't really rain all day - but it really was cloudy. Luckily, we took the cloud forest tour and not the panoramic hillside walk. I will just add some pictures and let them speak for themselves: it was a fantastic day between - or under - giant ferns (truly ... read more

In August of 2006 my friend and I did a trip to Park Amboro. We can recommend this to everybody! We visited the north side of the park. We booked our trip at the Dutch tour agency Ruta Verde in Santa Cruz. They were very helpfull and the trip was well organised. The north side of Amboro is pure jungle, 100% tropical rainforest, exactly what we wanted and even more beautiful than we expected. We saw plenty of monkeys (3 different species!), an animal named jochi?, beautiul butterflies, thick rainforest trees and we visited numerous waterfalls. Pictures will follow soon! :-) So long, Emiel... read more

two-days and a night...we totally booked, Amboro, on a spur of the moment with a local tour operator in the historic center which I guess is a good thing. We were instructed to wear longsleeves and light coloured clothing and make sure to take bug repellant! We hired a tent and a few other essentials and decided even if the mosquitos ate us alive they wouldn't ruin our fun and it was LOTS of fun. Little did we know that the mosquitos would be the least of our worries but that the ants would be the ones to attack, stealth style, during the night while we slept... Early morning rise, reminded the owner of Hotel Italia that we'd be leaving very early in the morning, um, so she wouldn't think we spent the entire day in ... read more