It
rained cats and dogs all night and is still raining heavily when we go down to
breakfast and so we decide not to make the 2 hour boat ride further upstream to
Madidi ecological park (where we had planned to spend a night in a different
lodge) and instead to make it back to La Paz if we can get a flight. (It’s
still the tail end of the rainy season here).
Reinaldo
goes to collect our suitcases (borrowing our ponchos to keep them dry) and
stores them in the boat under a plastic sheet. We don our ponchos for the 30
minute ride down to Rurrenabaque-the river is moving swiftly now and we all
wear life jackets.
Amazonas
airlines puts us on a 4.00pm departure back to La Paz. Their office notice
states- “Some of our destinations have the following characteristics: Dirt,
grass, others; strikes, demonstrations,street protests,others; rain, fog, wind,
storms, others.” The Rurrenabaque airport taxi road is too muddy for the plane
to reach the terminal and so we have to board buses which plow through the mud
to the runway.
We
are grateful to arrive back in sunny and dry La Paz and to get a room in the
same hotel as before.
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