Madidi National Park, Bolivia

While we were waiting for our car to be fixed in Iquique, we decided to go to Bolivia for a week and what a great choice. Bolivia's an amazing diverse country where we've found the local people to be super friendly.

Our first activity after arriving in La Paz was to fly to Rurrenenabaque. This small town is situated on the river Beni within the Amazon Basin. It's incredible how a 40min flight sees you going from 15deg weather to 34deg.We took a jungle tour for 3 days staying one night in an Ecolodge and the other camping in the jungle.

We saw lots of different animals including a tortoise, many different birds, packs of hundreds of wild pigs, tarantulas and were even lucky to see 3 different species of monkeys (alas no photos of the monkeys, they're too quick!). We even saw some jaguar tracks, but no big cat unforunately.

We made our own sugar cane juice, trekked through the jungle in the day and at night, swam in the river (no pirahna bites!) and on the final day we built our own log raft and set sail downstream. Really amazing experience. The only downside were the sandfly bites, we're still itching now!