Having spent 2 months at altitudes between 2500 and 5000m I took a flight in a tiny plane to a Northern Bolivian town on the edge of the Amazon called Rurrenabaque at no more than 200m above sea level. Surrounded by banana trees and lush vegetation it felt more like Southeast Asia than South America as I've experienced it so far.
After one night in Rurre I started on a 5 day tour of the nearby jungle and pampas areas with a community-led eco tourism company with 2 nights in a jungle ecolodge, 1 night camping in the jungle and 1 night in the pampas grasslands.
By the end of the trip I'd seen 4 species of monkey including yellow squirrel monkeys and black capuchins, turtles, wild cats, two species of caiman, capybara, birds of paradise, beautiful macaws and more, although unfortunately no sighting of the elusive jaguar, just some prints from the night before which showed how close we'd been.
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