Mercifully, San Ignacio was largely overcast today and lot cooler. Today at breakfast there was no discussion about indigenous burglers, nor was I tempted to have any Sonso (a mix of Yucca and disgusting Bolivian cheese). It was once again a slow start, San Ignacio square almost empty, before everything erupted once again around 10. Today was the day the authorities put on their main show. There was a mass in the church, the priest giving out holy water and gi...

Welcome to one of the world's greatest, and most unknown, festivals. San Ignacio de Moxos was founded by the Jesuit order, a group of Spanish evangelical priests, in the late 1660s. The jesuit order being founded by a man called San Ignacio and the Moxos being the name of the ancient civilisation that ruled this region of Bolivia. For around 120 years, instead of being subjected to the horrors of Spanish colonial rule, the natives of Moxos were converted to Chr...

It was a nice slowish start to the morning, partly thanks to the mind games my stomach seems to be playing with me... I spent about half an hour wondering the streets of Trinidad trying to following various directions to find the street where shared taxis leave the city bound for San Ignacio de Moxos. Eventually, I caught one, along with a baby, who seemed obsessed with my white legs. The most interesting part of the journey was crossing the Rio Mamore. There...