Flying to Rurrenabaque
Trip Start
Jan 28, 2008
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Trip End
Sep 18, 2008
La Paz,
Bolivia
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
We were asked the standard security questions at the Amazonas check in and were confused when they put my day pack through the scanner for the third time. Then we remembered the small first aid kit we carry and the smaller pocket knife in it. i opened up my bag and was ready to hand over the knife when the security told me to return to the check in and check the bag. Great! We got to keep the knife we had been careful enough to keep so far.
The aircraft was small with two propeller engines and two rows of single seats lining the fuselage. 16 passengers could fit in it. The flight path was spectacular. We crossed the Cordilla Real Mountain Range, the peaks just visible through the clouds, and then decended over jungle. It was only a 45 minute flight and we were landing on a grass landing strip. The landing was surprisingly smooth.
Out tour company picked us up in a 4WD and drove us past thatched-roofed houses and the odd chicken into the main part of ´town´. Rurre, as it is known by the locals, was much more tropical than other parts of Bolivia we have been, due to the lower altitude. It reminded us of a south east Asian town actually.
