bonnie & clyde

It turned out that we did not take the world's most dangerous road with the bus; a new road has been constructed, but nevertheless it is a quite scary ride! When there was another bus coming in the opposite direction, our bus driver was so gentle to drive backwards on the edge of the road, with a cliff just next to us...
Coroico was paradise after La Paz! We found a hostal in the middle of the jungle, with great views over the valley, so the first day we just relaxed by the pool, only the mosquitoes could stress us out!
The next day we did a walk to some waterfalls, the walk was really beautiful, but the waterfall did not impress us that much (after Iguazu in Argentina that's quite difficult
The next day we decided to do another walk, but we crossed a giant snake on our path, so decided not to take the risk and relax some more by the pool. Afterwards we heard the snake we saw was poisonous and that you normally have to kill them... we preferred to run
The next day we took a torturing bus to Rurrenabaque, the base for exploring jungle and pampas. We waited 2,5 hours for the bus at the side of the road, when it finally came, smoke was rising up from the drivers' cabin, but they decided to take the risk anyway... so we went on a 19 hours busride through hell, but finally arrived at Rurrenabaque, where the temperature was about 40 degrees, hot! There we booked a jungle trek for 2 days, which was amazing! We went with another 2 guys in a little motor boat to the refuge in the middle of the jungle, which were basically a couple of wooden cabins with some beds covered with, luckilly, mosquito nets. We went for a four hour trekking and saw lots of different animals: monkeys, parrots, frogs, lots of pigs, snakes, and lots of scary insects. The guide explained us a lot about the forest, the trees, which plants to eat and which not, which tree served as a medicine for what, really interesting! After the walk we got a good meal at the camp and went for another walk, a night walk! Quite scary, with flashlights, we saw a tarantula and a bambi, and again, lots of insects The next day, again, hiking, we drank water out of the branch of a tree (actually out of the parasite that had killed the trees, uña de gato or cat nails is the name. On the boat trip back to Rurrenabaque we saw a strange big animal (capibara?) and a caiman!
But tomorrow we are going on a 3 days trip to the pampas, where we will see lots of other big animals and swim with dolphins!
To be continued...