Maybe it was the long day yesterday, maybe the walking, maybe the heat, perhaps all three but I had a great sleep last night. At breakfast a couple of others confirmed they had slept just as well 'I didn't hear the cicadas, the howler monkeys or any other animal, it was the bloody loudmouth Sally who woke me up'. True enough, not content with being boring, she is incredibly annoying and clearly audible from a distance of at least 500 metres – not the best person to be on a wildlife walk with. Poaching is illegal here, I wonder if murder is too?
The boat arrived into the surprisingly pleasant town of Rurrenabaque at around noon and the promise of a hot shower after two days in the jungle was as welcome as a free punch at Christian Ronaldo's head.
Feeling refreshed – both by the shower and the ice cold beer – we were forced to tackle the problem of our clothes. As the ones we had been wearing for the last two days were so filthy they were starting to move by themselves (that could have been all the insects) we had to quickly wash our stuff and get it onto the roof in the hope that the sun would dry it in time for tomorrow morning when we left civilization for another two days in the wilderness.
After diligently washing and hanging all our stuff out to dry I returned two hours later to find that CIara had moved it all to a 'sunnier spot'. What she has failed to realise was that although the spot was far sunnier it was also over a 10 metre drop and thus a large part of our very small wardrobe was now staring up at us from the corrugated-iron roof of next door's restaurant. After much deliberation and the realisation that we could not get anywhere near the roof we hacked down the hotel washing line and tied it to my Swiss Army knife (attachments fully opened) then spent the next 30 minutes enjoying a huge fairground-like fishing game where the prizes were some very poor quality clothing goods.
Sud América Gut Rot League © – Pacena is Bolivia's best selling beer – I just can't see why. I don't think a Bolivian beer is going to make it into the charts, still it made the fishing far more enjoyable.
1. Cristal
2. Pilsen Polar
3. Franca
4. Cusqueña Negra
5. Conquer
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