DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOU ARE??? YOUR IN THE JUNGLE BABY!!! AND YOUR GONNA ............. You all know G&R, come on. That is correct, we went and did a fantastic Amazon Jungle Tour with an Eco Lodge called Madidi Travels. If you want information about the park itself and the lodge we visited and the woman in charge you can look at the National Geographic March 2000. The front cover is with 2 Macaws flying and it Says Bolivias Madidi National Park. Great story and info. ANYWAYS!!!
We arrived in Rurrenbaque at 7 in the morning to hot and humid and rainy conditions. We went to the Madidi Travel place and met 2 great volunteers from New Zealand and we booked a 4 day 3 night tour. We finished up odds and ends in the morning and left around11:30 am with 2 others from Italy/Chile. The boat ride was down the Rio Beni for 3 hours to some private land with 4 lagunas, lots of trails, canoeing, and wildlife/plantlife fauna.
Upon our arrival a pecory (wild pig) came to the boat and bathed itself. We also took a baby anteater out to be released because its mom was taken from it. So they were feeding it and releasing it once big enough. It was cool to see it up close. We saw tons of monkeys in the trees and learn about many plants on the 20 minute walk from the river to the cabins.
We then became cozy in our screened in private cabana. IT was great. You could hear and see tons of wildlife right from our cabana. The first night Cassie and I were tired so we just had dinner with the other couple (The food was great for each meal). They went on a night hike and we went back and went to sleep after the long bus ride over night the day before.
Each day after we woke early to walk starting around 6:30 am and hiking until 1 pm. It was hot. The bugs not too bad but the ticks were amazing Cassie wore shorts the first hike from the boat to the cabana and ended up with at least 40 ticks on her body. I had some as well but we cleaned her off like a family of monkeys and she was good to go. During our hikes we saw tons of birds, Macaws were awesome in the wild, anteaters, monkeys (3 types), Coati (raccoon like), A weasel of some sort, tons of insects, snakes, lizards, stingrays, fish, caimen, tarantulas, spiders, leaf cutter ants, giant ants. These one monkeys sounded like gorillas and you could hear them from miles away and we found them. I was scared when we were really close because they sound huge but only as big as a 10 year old child or so. I am sure they are strong and they sound ferocious so no need to wrestle or anything.
We took a hike through there plantation. They are self sufficient growing all their own fruits and veggies plus rice all themselves. The jungle is amazing and I hope you enjoy the pictures. This trip excited us about our trip down the amazon if it is possible. So much wildlife. We saw native people fishing as well. Just beautiful. Totally reccomend this trip to everyone. Enjoy the pictures. Read below if you want to hear about some poor behavior in the park.
Skip reading the next section if you dont want to hear about bad USA behavior.
Last but not least. A soap box a little. So the Madidi National park where we were, is home to many animals and wildlife. The park is not protected the best because people are poor and the officials are being paid off by rich logging companies and the jungle is being devistated. Read the article I mentioned above and it goes into depth. BUT AGAIN which seems to be a trend, 60% of the logged trees which are Mohogany mostly GOES TO THE USA!! WE as a people want to help save the world but we again use ALL THE RESOURCES. In the end USE LESS STUFF you dont really need it anyways!! Sorry I had to do it. It is funny to me how we protect the USA national parks but we just go to other countries and take their beautiful things from their beautiful places to make sure we have what we need. I know sorry I end it there. It just frustrates a little.
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