Friday 11th March We were woken up at 6am by the stray dogs barking like mad outside our window! So we got up, had breakfast and checked out. We walked to the airlines office to get a bus to the airport (!) we arrived at the 'hut' to check in which took forever as the girl behind the desk spent so much time faffing! (she even stopped to do her hair while checking me and Joe in! Then we got back on the bus to go to the 'runway!' we got on the little plane (which...

Thursday 10th March We slept ok, I got woken up by a bat in the room and the nights were so hot, and there was no circulation of air with the mossie nets on.  We were woken up at 5.45 by our guide Jamie saying 'wakey wakey guys!' so we all got up half asleep and got into the boat (in our pj's!) we cruised along the river listening to all the animal noises watching the sunrise it was lovely! Then cruised back to the lodge for breakfast. The alligator was out so...

Wednesday 9th March After an eventful night we were awake quite early as we could here the howler monkeys howling which was quite a scary sound! I slept fine, I actually found the frog and cricket noises quite relaxing! Poor Joe was absolutely eaten alive by something we thought Mosquitos but he later found a spider in his bed! We had breakfast (fruit salad, fritters, toast and scrambled egg) and then went to get our wellies to go Anaconda hunting! When the gu...

Tuesday 8th March Woke up at 6, and jumped in a at taxi 6.30. It was supposed to be 45 mins to airport but we were there in 20 mins! We had breakfast then got onto a very small 19 seater plane. The flight was fine apart from being able to see the runway from the pilots window! We arrived in Rurrenabaque and as soon as we got off the plane the heat hit us, it smelt and felt like the reptile house at the zoo! We all jumped on a bus and were driven about 5 mins to...