We crawled through the official jungle for 7 days trying to see animals and after just 10 minutes on a boat in the Pampas we found them all! While lounging lazily on a motor boat, we feasted our eyes on alligators, turtles, many unique and colorful birds, and even monkeys- lots of them! Pampas means the grasslands and this is where the animals are easier to see because the vegetation is less dense- we even had fish jumping into our boat, we held a baby alligator and Cullen held an anaconda snake! We spent three days with Melissa & Ilan (friends from the earlier jungle tours), four great people from Ireland, and our amazing guide Sabino.
On what turned out to be a much better tour than we ever expected, we went for a night canoe ride to find caiman (similar to alligators but more aggressive), we lounged in hammocks watching the wildlife around us (monkeys, birds, alligators all plentiful), we tredged through swamp for hours to find the anaconda, we swam with pink dolphins (and who knows what else was in the water!), and we fished parahna again then ate it for lunch! As if all of this was not enough, our incredibly friendly and informed guide gave us handmade necklaces with alligator teeth at the end of our trip! We are officially satisfied with the Bolivian Amazon and we are ready to get out of the humid bug territory tomorrow! Mike, we are proud to say that our calculations were near perfect and we will be taking just about every last one of our Malarone pills! Thank you!
Tomorrow we had a plane flight to La Paz in the morning but it got delayed until the afternoon. The tiny plane is notorious for cancellations so we are lucky that we can still leave on the same day. From this point on, we are in a race to get to Cusco before Ryan does! In just a few days we will be back to our stomping ground in beautiful Peru...
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What an amazing blog- trip- life you guys have! Your Dad just told us about the site. We'll be reading for weeks to catch up. We love you both. Continue your adventure...
Uncle Dave and Aunt Marianne
great pictures of the monkeys. The snake pictures are a bit disturbing and if you posted a picture of a tarantula I would swear off south america as ever being a place I would go :)
Your next adventure companion is on his way. I think Ryan is somewhere between Denver & Houston right now... then on to Mexico City, then Lima, and finally to meet up with you guys in Cuzco.
He has his phone if you guys need to call him.
~ As always, it's so great to see how much fun you two are having!
*** PHONE NUMBER FOR MELIS & CULLEN *****
Hi, if anyone reading this knows how I can get in touch with M&C, please send me an email (kchallett@yahoo.com). Ryan will be 1 day late meeting them in Cuzco (May 24 at 2pm instead of May 23), and neither he nor I can get through to them on the cell phone number that is posted on the blog. Has the number changed? And/or does anyone know what hotel they are staying in?
thank you!
We got ahold of KC and Ryan and plan B is in effect- all is well! No cell phone yet, but we are going to be checking email constantly until you get here, Ryan! We´re here for you buddy!
M&C
What a great adventure!! How was the Parhana fish fry? Cullen is that one of the US discard shirts with the alligator for $2.00? Can't believe only 2 + weeks left till you have to come back to the comforts of Nevada. Love Muy Grande "D"
I'm so glad you made it to the Amazon! It wouldn't be a trip to South America without experiencing the heat and humidity of the tropical rainforest! :) I saw pink dolphins and ate piranha when I was in the Amazon too! The piranha's I ate were very boney with very little fish for all the work of catching them! I also swam with them! Against popular belief, some piranha species are actually vegetarian.
-Cindy
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