As always we´ll try not to write too much as we have more photos from the rainforest (Park Madidi, Bolivia) and the start of Peru (Puno) to get through and we hate to be a bore. So after Inti Warra Yasi we made our way to Rurrenbaque to book our little Park Madidi adventure.
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| Our hostel in Rurre... |
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| Rio Beni |
So during two days of brilliant sunshine in Rurrenabaque we booked a three day trip into the wilds of the Parque Madidi rainforest, staying at the Chalalan ecolodge. As you would expect the day we were due to travel it pissed it down, as it did for the full three days we were there...
To get to the ecolodge we had to travel 6 hours by boat up the river Beni. Emma loved it, largely down to the fact that Ian has a lingering fear of boats stemming from a traumatic experience as a child in Whitby... Em especially loved Ian exclaiming "whoa now pickle" repeatedly every time the boat rocked...
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| Ian putting on a brave face...after his hair blew off |
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| Best room we´ve stayed in... |
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| Looking moody and interesting by the lake... |
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| Big ass moth the size of Ems hand... |
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| Squirrel monkey |
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| Brown Capuchin monkey |
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| Heliconia flower |
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Em with a Walking Palm. These things walk though the rainforest
floor searching for light... crazy |
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| Johnny 5 is alive... |
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| Feivel goes west... in a canoe |
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When our guide said ´hot lips´ Ian was ready to deck him,
turns out he was pointing to this flower... |
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Spiny tree, it evolved like this to protect itself against the
now extinct giant sloth... |
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| Giant Fern, amazing! |
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| Kermit |
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| Stick insect |
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| Huge ass Cedar tree |
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| Follow me plant... |
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| Golden webbed Spider being eaten alive by its babies (bottom right)... |
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| Our little cabin... |
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| Epiphytic Orchid |
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| Carnival Spider |
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Hedidiya plant, turns your hand purple when you
give it a good hard rub... |
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| Vanilla |
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| Pretty little orchid |
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Monkey ladder vine, took the guide 5 times to take this pic,
because of the reflection off Ians forehead. |
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| Inside a walking Palm, Ian looks sinister, em looks nervous... |
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| Pregnant tree |
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| A couple of trees being killed by a strangling fig tree |
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| Stag stag stag!! |
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| Ian and Yad our guide, ready to set off back to civilisation. |
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Raining as per usual... The novelty has worn off for the
guides, come on lads perk up... |
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| No words |
So after Madidi, we made our way to La Paz with the intention of staying 3 days before moving onto Copacabana on the shore of Lake Titikaka (grow up). This transformed into 8 days of watching friends re-runs on cable TV, waiting for three road blocks on the way to Copacabana to clear. In the end we had to skip it and go straight into Peru, with sore bums (this time from bed sores) where we called at the floating island of Uros in Puno...
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| Floating island, in the middle of lake Titikaka, made from reeds... |
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| Nannan Pats Christmas present sorted... |
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| A mini demonstration of how they make the islands |
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| This little chap kept on blowing raspberries all through the tour... |
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| Wedding pic |
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The women waved goodbye with their tradtional farewell
saying 'Asta la vista baby´. Em was convinced they said "I still love Easter baby" |
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| "Great another f***ing tourist" |
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| "So you sing ´Doe a deer´..." |
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| Shaft |
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| Ian had to wrestle his sunglasses back off this little scamp.. |
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| aww cutesy poo |
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| The little scamp loved Bill Bailey |
Right coming soon to a blog near you... Machu Pichu and the Sacred Valley... Adios amigos!
Oh I do love your updates. This one had it all, the horror of spiders, cute chubby children, banana boats and Ian's head...
ReplyDeleteThe rain forest would have freaked me because of the spiders, just no. The rest of it looks amazing however!
As always, eternally jealous, eternally missing you, eternally drunk.
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