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Once back from the Madidi trip we got a flight to Santa Cruz (via San Borja and Trinidad). Our main reason for coming to Santa Cruz was to see if we could get a trip to Noel Kempf Mercado NP. The Bolivian jungle in Madidi was great but Noel Kempf is noted as one of the most biologically diverse areas on the planet. It doesn´t have the infrastructure that the Madidi does but that was part of th...
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Elanor
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Noel Kempf
Loving the posts! We didn't make it into Noel Kempf at all. We spent many hours researching routes in, transport options, guides and trying to link up with other travellers to go into Noel Kempf and in the end had to pass it up. We were also restricted financially (travelling on NZ$$), but the logistics were what killed it in the end. Unfortunately there were so many stories like yours and many instances of people getting stranded. I do hope that they succeed in building slightly better infrastructure, but the management of national parks is a concern across all of South America.... Venezuela where there are no toilets and there are fields of toilet paper and sh*t, or Peru where there are toilets but full to overflowing (even though you pay $USD60 to enter) resulting in more toilet fields or even the famous Torres del Paine where some of the bridges are hazards.... Great to hear you both are having such amazing adventures. We also loved Madidi and Chalalan!