Friday, October 21, 2011

"Pampas" Myates's photos about Rurrenabaque, Bolivia (bolivia music)

Preview of Myates's blog at TravelPod. Read the full blog here: www.travelpod.com This blog preview was made by TravelPod using the TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow creator. Entry from: Rurrenabaque, Bolivia Entry Title: "Pampas" Entry: "So apparently I had not had enough of the jungle and definitely hadn't seen the wildlife I was hoping to. This time I headed out to the Pampas, the swamplike savanna to the north east of Rurrenabaque. It was a three hour drive to the river in a beaten up old jeep with only bench seats in the back on a dirt road with more potholes than actual road. The boat we were to travel on was much the same as in the jungle. It was even warmer here than the jungle and I was sweating in t/shirt and shorts. This time there were 6 of us on the tour. A swiss couple, the woman was a teacher and the man was a food engineer at the Lindt chocolate factory in Switzerland! He told us all about chocolate making and how the ladies in the factory whose job it is to put almonds on the pralines have to do gymnastics for 10 minutes every two hours, with music and everything. They had some companies come in to design a machine to do the job but it would need the technology and precision of a space robot so it would cost too much. The other three on our tour were recently graduated engineers from Belgium who had been on a bus all night and all looked a bit worse for wear. The conversation revolved much around the linguistic similarities between Flemmish, Swiss German and ...

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