I have never departed so quickly... It only took 5 minutes from sitting in the departure lounge to being in the air. The 16 passenger Amazonas flight only took 40 minutes but it was like being on a roller coaster swooping through the sky - marginally better then the flight Liz and I took to see the Nazca Lines.

On the plus side we did have a picturesque view of the snowy capped mountains and the amazon rainforest.

Our journey to the Pampus began at 9am the following morning. We started the journey with a 3hr drive along something the Bolivians may call a 'road.' We continued the rest of the journey by boat down the Amazon. The sun very strong, I was lucky I remembered my sun hat, Christina on the other hand wore a t-shirt on her head to avoid burning.

I saw more wildlife in this 2hr boat trip then I saw in Peurto Maldonado in the 3 days. The river and its banks are home to Capybara (the largest rodents in earth!), turtles, freshwater pink river dolphins (bufeos), yellow squirrel monkeys, hoatzin, hundreds of caiman, a sloth, kingfishers, condors, eagles and many birds of paradise.

We arrived at Dolphin Lodge at 5.30pm just in time for fresh juice before heading back in the boat to watch the sunset. We were defiantly moored in the overflow boat park because everyone got off at the previous stop while we went to a "Bar" that seemed to be out of drinks and we were the only customers!

Dinner at the lodge was better then I had expected from past experience. There was so much food, how much did they think Christina and I ate?! But it did have an extra topping of Pampas fly! Lights literally out at 9pm so not the jungle party life after dark.

Our itinerary for the next couple of days included wild life watching, piranha fishing and anaconda hunting, swimming with pink dolphins, and alligator spotting.

After watching the sunrise over the pampas and a delicious breakfast we went swamp walking to find an anaconda. I was wearing a size 43 wellies - 4 sizes too big for me, this hindered my walking and I managed to trip up twice because I got caught in the reeds, luckily it wasn't in the swamp! The swamp water went past our knees and there is nothing worse then wet feet and swamp water filled wellies because you kept getting stuck in the mud - literally,

We searched the swamp habitat areas for 3 hours and weren't in any luck and had to call it a day because we were burning in the midday sun with little water. On our way back we did see many caimans "catching energy" according to Obi.

Piranha fishing was next on the itinerary, I was useless and gave up quite quickly because I preferred just watching the wildlife. Christina on the other hand managed to catch 3 sardines that were let free again, whilst Obi our guide caught 5 catfish and a piranha that became dinner.

The trees surrounding are camp became the Howla monkeys bed for the night. I set my alarm early, however right on que the Howla monkeys woke us up at 6am with their 'roar.'

Passing on swimming in the river afraid of getting ill, (couldn't afford to be ill with our tight schedule! ) instead we took a walk through the forest. We saw the three types of monkeys that live in the pampas, yellow squirrel, brown capuchin and Howla monkeys. Obi pointed out various poisonous plants until he realised that our legs were all covered in ticks . We made a swift exit to the boat to de-tick ourselves!
While Obi left us alone to visit his 'sister.'

Time for are return to 'Rurre' we were squished into a mini bus and driving at ridiculous speeds over the gravel road taking 40minutes off the journey. But we made it back alive! Just in time for a lovely Bolivian meal.