After a few days in Coroico I decided to head to the jungle a little early. The weather was not the best so I wanted ample time for my jungle trip. Rurre is a 18 hour trip from Coroico along a high, dusty, curvy, narrow, cliffs kissing road. Anytime there was on coming traffic it would make you wonder how will they do it. Luckily for me they did. I don´t know if I like the night portion better or worse. I could not see what was out there, but I knew...lol.
Rurre is a tiny little town on the banks of mud colored river. The town itself is nothing special. It is just the most convenient place for Madidi Park. It is probably a total of 5 blocks about half a kilometer long...really small. I was able to organize my jungle trip with no problems for the day after I arrived. There were so many options and I had heard of many stories of bad operators. I went with one that seemed to be in the middle class I guess. I could not have made a better choice. The avg. group was 10 -12 people. My group...me and one other guy. I guess that could be a really good thing (if we get along) or bad (if they sucked). I was extremely lucky. The one other person was a great guy from Holland. He was a really interesting guy and very easy to get along with. So we basically had our own private jungle tour. Out guide "Billy" was great. He earned my respect when he went sprinting into head high grass, then jumping out with an angry
2 meter plus cobra. Words can`t describe it and my video is to long to upload, but it was crazy. The whole trip was great. There were alligators, turtles, dolphins, capubaras, and all kinds of different birds about. It was a bit touristy and seeing so many other tour groups out there was a bit of a turn off, but I am looking past that and I got to see a lot of cool animals. The highlight was a tie between holding an Anaconda (ice cube and j lo would be so proud) and holding the angry cobra.
Rurre is a tiny little town on the banks of mud colored river. The town itself is nothing special. It is just the most convenient place for Madidi Park. It is probably a total of 5 blocks about half a kilometer long...really small. I was able to organize my jungle trip with no problems for the day after I arrived. There were so many options and I had heard of many stories of bad operators. I went with one that seemed to be in the middle class I guess. I could not have made a better choice. The avg. group was 10 -12 people. My group...me and one other guy. I guess that could be a really good thing (if we get along) or bad (if they sucked). I was extremely lucky. The one other person was a great guy from Holland. He was a really interesting guy and very easy to get along with. So we basically had our own private jungle tour. Out guide "Billy" was great. He earned my respect when he went sprinting into head high grass, then jumping out with an angry
2 meter plus cobra. Words can`t describe it and my video is to long to upload, but it was crazy. The whole trip was great. There were alligators, turtles, dolphins, capubaras, and all kinds of different birds about. It was a bit touristy and seeing so many other tour groups out there was a bit of a turn off, but I am looking past that and I got to see a lot of cool animals. The highlight was a tie between holding an Anaconda (ice cube and j lo would be so proud) and holding the angry cobra.
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