The Pampas

Bolivia is an amazing country in many aspects. One of them is the variety of altitudes. La Paz is about 3km a.s.l but when you head north east (hopefully on a plane and not along the death road) the altitudes drop to almost sea level so fast that from the plane it looks like a shear cliff. The Amazon basin here is about 200m.a.s.l (reaching sea level at the eastern coast of Brazil) and it is divided to jungle and pampas, the flat wetlands which are flooded during the rainy season and are home to many different animals.

We took a 3 days tour to the pampas in which we stayed in a cabin on the riverside and traveled mostly by a small boat along the river in search of wildlife. We also went on a 4 hours walking tour to search for Anacondas.

Apart from that we had an early morning and a late night boat rides to hear the different sounds (howling monkeys and such ..) and a couple of rides to nice bars, comfortable located on the riverbank and serve cold bear to thirsty tourists.

One day we went fishing for Piranhas, caught quite a few and had them for dinner.
We saw a lot of birds (Ibises, Storks, Herons and also some predator birds), monkeys, Capybaras, Alligators, snakes and even the local pink river Dolphins. Here are some Photos:

A turtle train

Me and an Anaconda we found


Crazy two headed birds


Pink river dolphins


Small river bird flying


Aquatic bird taking off

Alligator

Capybara

Marabu

Little yellow monkey

A Piranha that I caught (Karin caught more ..)