Day: 399
The days here on the steamy shores of the Amazon are drifting in and out of similarity, unable to seem to know where to land. It rains, the sun blazes and we constantly lounge around in hammocks loving life. Quite a nice break if I dont say so.
Day: 398
Our days are pretty simple, eating and relaxing, trying to avoid the worst of the days heat in the shade, then eating again. We manage to rally the energy to buy plane tickets for 3 days from now, when we´ll be leaving the Amazon basin and heading up to lake Titicaca, which makes me [...]
Day: 397
It rained most of the day and we are still wasting lots of time together. We did manage to get Felicia´s visa extended (mine is for 90 days, here was 30), so we don´t have to rush out of Bolivia.
Day: 396
After our Amazon adventure, we realized we were exhausted from traveling and have decided to stay put for a while here in Runnenabaque for a few reasons: the aforementioned exhaustion, its cheap, and we still have a couple weeks until we meet Ed in Cusco and there is only a couple of other places to [...]
Day: 395
After a morning of making assorted jewelry out of forest nuts and branches (I swear its like summercamp here), we hike the 2 kilometers back to the river and boarded the boat, with the utmost caution of the quicksand, to head back upriver for 4 hours to return back to Rurre for the next [...]
Day: 394
To answer your questions (Grandpa), yes we do have repellent. Actually we have three types, REI Jungle Juice, and aerosol can of OFF, and a 30 DEET Cutter Glue stick type thing. We also have mosquito coils constantly burning in our lodge and sleep under mosquito nets. Everytime we go out we apply layers [...]
Day: 393
We walked through the endless jungle looking for animals, assorted plants and sweating the combined equivalent of 3 gallons of water. It might just have been me but the furry tree anteaters seemed to be cooler than my poor Southern Californian ass…
Anyhow, we did manage to see all sorts of jungle creatures, and even manage to [...]
Day : 392
After a late breakfast and waiting an extra 45 minutes after our supposed departure time, Felicia and I boarded a river boat and headed downstream on the Beni (pronounced Behney) for the next three hours, checking out all sorts of going ons (aka nothing really other than a really wide river).
The absolute best [...]
Day: 391
Hung out in Rurre (as Rurrenbaque is called here), sweated our asses off, andjust waiting for our tour to begin tomorrow.
Day: 390
We got up early this morning to get to the military airport to get on our military transport, into the Jungle town of Rurrenbaque, in the Amazon basin, complete with grass runway. We were planning on getting on one of the cheap 3 day ($50) tours throughout the region, but after some research we [...]
