Amazon Trip

A couple of the volunteers headed into the Jungle over the weekend and Fiona tells us about their great experience!

This weekend four of us volunteers packed up our things and headed on an 

intrepid adventure.

We made our way from Cochabamba to La Paz and from La Paz to Rurrenabaque, 

in the Amazon basin. I think that Bolivia is most associated with its mountains 

and the high altitude, but after returning from this trip I want to tell everybody 

that Bolivia also has the Amazon rainforest, and it’s incredible. 

I’ve never been on a more perfect trip: the tropical heat, the wildlife, the 

company. Everything was perfect. We booked a 3-day tour and the only thing 

wrong with it is that I wish it was longer! Sometimes when you do tours like 

these you’re being set up for disappointment; the things they advertise just 

aren’t real or you might get ripped off by a dodgy company. But this company 

provided everything they said they would and more. 

Here are just some of the things we did: a sunrise boat trip, swimming with 

pink dolphins, a night time boat trip to see the crocodiles’ eyes in the dark, 

an anaconda search, volleyball at the sunset bar, piranha fishing and general 

wildlife spotting. We saw lots of different types of birds from hoatzins and 

jabirus to toucans and fishing hawks. It would take me forever to list everything 

we saw but the main things on the pampas are crocodiles and alligators, caiman, 

turtles, capybaras, squirrel monkeys and we even saw a sloth! 

When you go to the Amazon you have a choice between doing a Pampas tour and 

a Jungle tour. If you want to feel like you’re actually deep in the forest and you’re 

more interested in walking and vegetation then the Jungle tour is probably the 

one for you. But if, like us, you really want to see as much wildlife as possible 

then the Pampas is where it’s at. 

I had such a good experience in the Amazon and can’t wait to go back one day!