Parrots!

We woke up early and headed straight for a view point where we had been promised parrots. We walked for an hour, up a HUGE muddy hill, and eventually arrived at the top of a cliff. We were immediately mesmerized, with beautiful macaw parrots swooping through the air below us. They nest in the cliffs, and at sunrise they start flying - incredible. We were mesmerised, and our guide dragged us along to another point, where we were just above a tree where the parrots were sitting in pairs. The parrots mates in pairs, and when one dies the other never mates again and often dies soon after.

We watched the parrots flying in loops from the cliff and back until the morning mist lifted. We then made our way down the muddy hill to the most amazing breakfast ever. Scrambled eggs, banana, orange and apple, pancakes, freshly made empanadas (on a open wood campfire?!?) and best of all freshly made doughnuts - made from yuka - a local sweet potato like thing. They were incredible!

We then made our way back to the camp - by raft! We tied together 6 balsa wood logs with a stick, and jumped on. Our guides acted as gondoliers, polling our way down through the rapids. We were promised that caiman crocodiles don't live on this part of the river as it was too fast flowing. Just after he said that the other guide shouted ' look over there, there is a caiman!' Just what we wanted! The croc slipped into the water and disappeared - not what we wanted while we were sitting half submerged on a raft held together by a vine!!!

We got back to the camp for lunch, and had a little nap in a hammock, pretty perfect. We were called back to the boat to make our way back to Rurrenabaque for our flight back to La PAz. It was very surreal leaving the jungle at half 2, for a flight at half 4! We arrived back, sat in the TAM office, and were told an hour and a half later our flight was cancelled!

We settled in for a nervous (and very rainy) night, where we started to work out when we would have to get on the 24 hour bus back to La Paz if the flights kept on being cancelled!!