we took a three day tour into the pampas in the amazon basin (pampas = jungle meets wetlands) with a great group of people:
two german girls, tanja and rebekka, studying in buenos aires and on summer break … chris from chicago/texas/new mexico (i could never get him to claim one as “home”) who has lived all over the world … and bec and adam, an ex-rugby player and his beautiful school teacher wife, from australia and traveling the world for the next year, and who we absolutely loved getting to know. is it weird i miss them?
day one was spent getting to the remoteness we´d be inhabiting for the next few days.
this involved leaving the small town of rurrneabaque and driving for 2-3 hours in a bumpy, crappy, van to a river where we met our guide (simon) and hoped into the motorized canoe that would be our only form of transportation for the rest of the trip.
three hours on the boat, with lots of animal sightings and a rain storm, and finally we arrived at our camp.
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i don’t know exactly what this is, but it was hanging out at the resturant we where we ate lunch.
it looks like pumba.
also at the restaurant:
our only form of transportation for the next three days
i forget the name of these… but they are large (very large) rodents
personally, i prefer monkeys over giant rats
after about three hours on the boat, seeing all of those animals above, and more, and enduring a heavy downpour, we arrived at camp.
