Rurrenabaque, Bolivia

I recently took a little detour by Plane to Rurrenebaque.

Rurrenebaque is north of La Paz in Bolivia and down in the Amazonian basin. I went there to experience a bit a jungle and warm weather. Although I am above the tropic of Capricorn it isn´t that warm yet because for the last month I have been above 3500m all the time.

Well I got my warm weather and saw an amazing variety of animals. It was a very chilled out place, feeling like a different country. I joined a tour group to go check out the ´Pampas´ for a few days. I didn´t go to the jungle because I heard that you are more likely to see animals out in the Pampas (sort of wet grasslands).

Definitely a successful trip and I enjoyed the social side which you tend to miss on a solo motorcycle trip.

We saw crocs and alligators.

Turtles

Some huge guineapig thing (sorry forgot the name). -as big as a pig.

Monkeys

Caught anacondas (see, I wasn´t lying..)

They stink too. While playing cards later that night we smelt the same smell coming from under the floor boards..

Caught (and ate) Piranhas.

And, as I wrote before, swam with dolphins. They´re pretty ugly as dolphin´s go.

Back in La Paz now. There was this big fiesta on last night. Lots of parades, dancing and drinking..

I´m off to Peru by the end of the week. I have been reading more reports of crooked cops in Peru which I am not looking forward to.