Rurrenabaque

Only 40 minutes by plane from La Paz is Rurrenabaque (or Rurre as most people call it). It feels like another planet though. While La Paz is a busy, big city that gets cold as ice at night and located at such high altitude that you start to breath heavily as soon as you climb a couple of stairs, Rurre is in the middle of the rainforest, hot and humid, sleepy and easy going. From La Paz you fly in over the snowy Andean peaks that quickly changes to the lush, green Amazon basin. Sweat covers you the moment you step onto the grassy landing strip.

The Andes, so close you can almost touch them

Nice little plane

The town itself is located net to the river Beni and surrounded by two national parks it's a really popular place for tourists. Travel agencies that arranges jungle- and Pampas tours are everywhere. Of course we did both (more about that later though). Unfortunately we had to stay a bit longer because of illness but it was quickly over and now we are up and running again! Other tourists aren't as lucky as us, you can see them sitting on the streets with the orange pants and dreadlocks, trying to sell there handmade jewellery. Some people just don't know when to stop travelling...

Who needs a bridge really?

View from our balcony over Rio Beni