JUNGLE TRIP OUT OF RURRENABAQUEAfter our fun in the Pampas it was time for the ´real´Amazonian jungle, Bolivian style.  We met with rest of group at the tour company office in Rurre.  Much confusion with large numbers of tourists all going in different directions so after about two hours of waiting in the pouring rain our group set off in another long narrow boat on the Rio Beni in a southerly direction.  After one hour we dropped off t...

(UPDATED ON 12 Nov)After our downhill bikeride we decided it was time to see some of the ecological highlights of the Bolivian Amazon.  Signed up for a 3 day tour of the Pampas (Amazonian wetlands) followed by 4 days in the ´real´ jungle.  Plan was to take small plane out of La Paz north to Rurrenabaque, about 300km away.  Arrived at airport on appointed day to see said small plane with the equivalent of its bonnet o...

JOURNEY FROM COPACABANA TO LA PAZ Remaining bus journey from Copacabana to La Paz was OK and we had an entertaining interlude. You need to cross a narrow section of the lake (about a kilometre) so tourists get off boat and are ferried across in small boats. Poor bus, meanwhile, has to drive onto a flat barge barely bigger than the bus itself, then a tiny outboard motor on rear of barge propels the barge across the strait. IUt is quite terrifying to see a large bu...

LAKE TITICACAWell, after the fun of northern and central Peru it was time to head south. We took bus from Cusco to the city of Puno on the north-west end of Lake Titicaca (the Peruvian side). First views of outskirts of city were not promising but initial views of the lake were great to see as we had both heard so much about this lake over the years. It holds all sorts of records such as largest lake in S. America, highest lake in the world with passenger ferry s...