The Bolivian Amazon

From Rurrenabaque you can either do a Jungle tour or a Pampas tour. Again with Alaina and Justin we booked onto a 2 day, one night Pampas tour. Animals galore!!!! We drove by 4WD for 3 hours along a bumpy dusty road to the river. On the way we saw a sloath, an anaconda snake track across the road (the boys were very enthusiastic taking off into the trees to try and find it - which they didn´t), and loads of different birds, big and small. Then by canoe up the river to our camp. Aligators, caymen (similar), capybaras ( large rat like creatures that can grow up to 45kgs! - very bizarre!), and instead of finding an anaconda, (of which we saw this huge snake in a magazine article in a reptile house in Alice Springs that had eaten a German tourist whole, and had been cut open), we found a cobra, that got alittle annoyed and bite the pants of our guide. Justin used to be an eco guide in the Daintree, which is in the far north of Queensland, Australia. He got very enthusiastic about wildlife, very much like our very own crocodile hunter Steve Irwin! On the night canoe excursion whilst looking for alligator eyes, the boat pulled up next to a baby one, and he proceeded to catch it, which was great for a kodak moment! We had booked a flight back to La Paz, which takes under one hour, once again to prevent not having to take the Most Dangerous road by bus, that can take up to 25 hours. Unfortunately, because of wildfires and the lack of visa bility in the Amazon, the flights had been cancelled. Due to already having an onward flight prearranged to head south, we couldn´t wait around on the off chance that we would fly. So we hired a 4WD with 7 other random people, which took as 14 hours (a couple extra than normal due to many breakdowns!), and which meant that we did indeed end up taking the road that we had been wanting to avoid. Luckily it was dark, and I couldn´t see over the edge. That´s all I can say!