Brief hello from BA as we are about to leave for UK tomorrow!!It´s been fun........

BARILOCHEHi, it´s not often that I get to write on this site. J is busy putting on 100´s of photos so I thought I´d grab the chance. This is now our ´holiday´. We´ve decided to take a break from ´travelling´and settle here for a while. Quite honestly, we couldn´t have chosen a better location - it is just like Switzerland (I promise you there are even wood chalets and we´re looking forward to our cheese ...

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...