So today I have a whole day to kill and unfortunately the weather is still quite crappy: overcast with slight drizzle but the temperature still really nice. After a bit of a sleep-in I went for a walk around the market and tried to find some new foods to try. As my stomach is much better (after about 3 weeks) I am now ready to start trying new foods again but Ofcourse trying to be more careful where I buy foods from. As it is Saturday there are a few extra market...

The rain poured all night and by morning it had actually got worse - not looking good for everyone that is supposed to be flying back to La Paz today. David, Miriam, Julia and I hung around using the free Internet connection we had whilst waiting for the rain to subside. Around midday I went on a bit of a mission trying to find something for lunch whilst doing my best not to get soaking wet. The others were all flying back to La Paz at 4:30pm today so at 2:30pm t...

Today we had the option of going to watch the sunrise at 5:30am - myself, Miriam, Julia and Ricardo got up but the rest of our group decided to sleep-in. The guide was late and when he arrived you could tell he didn't really want to go but we made him go anyways. We boarded the boat and headed up the river to a special lookout, on arrival we found there were too many clouds to see a perfect sunrise. We did however get to see the sunrise piercing through the cloud...

Lastnight no one in our room slept thanks to the two drunk Australian guys snoring, groaning and then at 5am letting their alarms go off non-stop for 30 minutes. I remembered why I hate hostels because of disrespectful people that think of only themselves. In the morning they were Ofcourse apologetic but it was too little to late. At 8am we headed over for breakfast and waited and waited only to find our guide had slept in and after 30 minutes we decided to get i...

After a fairly restless sleep lastnight I was up early to do my exercises and prepare for today's Pampas trip. The Pampas is a flood plain in the Amazon where most of the diverse range of animal wildlife live and where tourists can go to see them in their natural habitats. At 8:30am David and I packed our things, payed for the room and then headed down to the tour office. There was a huge group of people at the office and something like 30 of us heading out into ...