Our flight to Rurrenabaque was delayed due to the weather, which made perfect sense once I saw how small the plane was! It was the tiniest plane I had ever been on by miles, with only maybe 15 passengers and no flight crew apart from the pilot and co-pilot. There was only one strip of seats on each side (meaning everyone got a window seat) and with no cockpit you could see the pilots flying the plane with all the controls in easy sight! I found it extremely cool and Liv laughed at how excited I get over silly things like really small planes.

The views from the plane were insane as we literally flew through the snowcapped mountains above the clouds and it all felt very surreal. Arriving into Rurrenabaque also didn't feel real as we approached a muggy looking jungle region with surrounding misty mountains. The airport was so funny - just a small hut in the middle of the jungle pretty much, with a few seats. It felt exciting to be somewhere so rural.

We had pre-booked our jungle tour in the rainforest from La Paz and so when we pulled up at Dolphin Travel to begin we were disappointed to discover that things weren't going to go as planned. The women in the shop told us we couldn't do the jungle tour because it was raining (in the RAINforest) for us to. then to find out we would be camping in a TENT, so could still do it I we wanted to get wet and muddy, when we had been originally told we would be staying in an ecolodge! Ridiculous. Unprepared for camping in general, let alone in the rain in the jungle, we were unhappy with the choices we were left with - which was the tent or to do a completely different tour (the Pampas Tour) which hadn't appealed to us. The pampas tour was less of a jungle experience in the Amazon and more of a wildlife excursion but was cheaper than what we had already paid so we weren't happy when we ended up agreeing to do that one, without any money back. The whole experience was just so bizarre and Liv and I know we will hysterically laugh looking back at it but spent a lot of our 24 hours in the Amazon pissed off.

We endured an extremely bumpy car journey down unpaved roads for a few hours before stopping in Santa Rosa for lunch where we met the three other people in our group, who were really nice. We then continues to the riverside and got in a long motor boat for our three hour boat trip to spot creatures of the Amazon. The majority of the ride was spent unconscious by Liv and I, firstly because it was boring and all we were seeing was birds, and secondly because it was very relaxing being sailed down a river in the hot and humid Amazon after being cold for so long. Sleepy, warm and on a softly rocking boat it was a very (expensive) pleasant nap. It didn't really seem to matter that we slept through it all in any case as we saw almost no wildlife aside from birds (other than the odd monkey and turtle). We did however pull up right next to a crocodile; it was extremely eery seeing a crocodile in the wild like that! In retrospect the scenery from the boat ride was absolutely beautiful, and I do feel lucky to have got to experience a boat ride in the Amazon.

We arrived at our ecolodge and before long were taken to another spot to watch the sunset, where many of the other tours also seemed to be, and had a beer. After dinner back at our lodge we went out with torches on the boat to look for creatures of the crocodilian family, which was again unsuccessful and it was just very strange cruising down a river in the Amazon in the pitch black of night being eaten alive by Mosquitos. Liv and I were deliriously hysterically about the whole experience, and we went to bed laughing at the day we had just had, whilst being dreading and looking forward to the day we would be facing in the morning.