Rurrenabaque- El carazon de la selba
En attendant notre départ a Chalalan; un lodge dans le coeur du parc Madidi, on s occupe dans ce petit village aux abords de la rivière Beni. Et qui dit rivière dit pêche!!! Et oui, j ai réussi a dénicher un guide local qui nous a emmené pour une journée de pêche dans son bateau typique (dugout canoe) de 35 pieds et a peine 3 pieds de large avec un de ces moteurs a tige! J aurais du savoir qu il était impossible de me sauver des c##se de barbues; bein oui, on en a poigne trois différentes sortes, et y en a une ch¬€nne qui a réussi a me piquer moi qui pensait qu elles étaient douloureuse a Luskville! J ai eu l pouce enfle pour la journée, OUCH!!! Maudit venin!
On s en viens assez bons voyageurs, on deal hard dans les mercadors, on mange avec les locaux au lieu des restos a gringos (1$ vs. 5$). On explore hard (grâce a notre LP). Notre agence nous a loge dans une super belle auberge avec salle de bain prive et eau chaude 24 sur 24! Je passe mes soirées à chasser les geckos pendant que Celina lis dans son hamac. C est assez chill. Dire que nos 6 semaines sont quasiment fini!!! Oh well, faut bein revenir sur terre un jour, j arrête pas de rêver a la chasse!!! Bon assez parle; c est à Celina!
Hello all!
The Chalalan agent that sold us the package in La Paz was very inspiring! We caught him in his office after hours and he seemed very ready to come out into the hall and go on a tie raid about the large scale burning of the rainforest. This student of biology turned ecotourism agent said the government of Bolivia must be made to see that tourism is hurt / will be hurt by these losses of wilderness. He believes that if the government sees this they will move their support from forest- burning-for-soy-and-cattle-ranching to forest protection and making the countries parks more then just lines on a map. Let's wish him luck and let's check where our tofu comes from -} rainforest free tofu burgers!!!
Ronald from the fishing adventure tells us that Rurre is a fast growing town. He said that in the past 2 years it has doubled. The town imports much of what we have seen including streets full of motorcycles, restaurants full of 7Bolivianos (1$Can) chicken dinners and plenty of soft drinks! What is this small jungle frontier town exporting to afford all these imports? Ronald tells me fish is the biggest export with tourist products a close second. I didn't think of this at the time but I wonder if coca is on the list…he wasn't about to tell me about that!
Tomorrow we are off for a day in the woods, for a Day for the Community. This is a tour of 3 communities in the jungle trying to develop a sustainable way of life within their environment…more news on hoe they are doing soon!
Hope you are all having fun!
Mat (Comment this)
library school is like going back to square one...I'm used to hanging out with my type of people, and now here I have to convince people that libraries shouldn't have hate-literature in them, because not all sides of an argument deserve fair representation in a public institution!!...luckily I've found at least one like-minded person, so we complain about the other tools!
thanksbyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
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J'ai hâte de vous revoir le 30. D'ici ce temps je vous embrasse et revenez nous sain et sauf. (Comment this)
Cheers guys
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