From La Paz we hopped on a 14 hour jeep ride to the jungle town of Rurrenbaque.  Rurrenbaque is in the Amazon basin of Bolivia, so it was obviously much more tropical and humid than La Paz.  Motor scooters galore.  The town was nice and slow, and just what we needed for a day after an overnight car trip. 

We  arranged a three day two night excursion in the Pampas area outside of Rurrenbaque for the following day.  We headed out with a group of eight turistas on a three hour minibus ride to get to our boat launching point.  The Pampas area during the summer time is usually flooded, dispersing the animals in the area.  Luckily for us  we where there during the dry season, and most of the animals in the area were congregrating around the small river which we took to get to our camp.  Along the way we saw alligators, turtles, hundreds of different birds, river dolphins, monkeys, capiwarras (really large rodents), and others, yah pretty cool!

Our second day we headed out into the Pampas area to try and find some anaconda snakes.  It was totally safe, we were told.  In the end we didnt see much, the area was nice, and we spent some time sludging through  a knee deep swamp.  I saw a small anaconda swim by me in the water and suprisingly enough my first instinct was not to reach out and grab it. 

Later that night we took a boat ride and spotted alligators using our flashligts, there eyes shine a creepy red. 

On our last day, the group woke up before sunrise to head out in the boat to listen to the sounds of the animals waking up (Levi opted out of this one).  After breakfast we all went piranha fishing.  Pretty easy to get nibbles with pieces of meat on our lines.  Usually you would lose your entire bait before catching anything, but we caught a few and had some for lunch.  After lunch the tour was over and we headed back into Rurrenbaque.  The Pampas tour was great, good group of people and an amazing abundance of wildlife.  One of the highlights of Bolivia for sure.