A worthwhile half day stop

Trip Start Mar 01, 2006
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Trip End Dec 01, 2007


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Friday, August 3, 2007

The journey from San Ignacio de Moxos to Trinidad was agreeable. Taking our time to have breakfast, pack, and buy fruits for the journey, we came back just before the truck left and it was already almost full. We managed to get seats with a view: on a wooden plank like everyone else, but on the side. Tried to arrange our backpacks so that the others would not stomp it, but the probability was very low. By the end of the bumpy ride, 4 hours later, a few hundred kilos had been walking over my bag, almost nothing was broken.

We left, still picking up more passengers to fill fill fill, and eventually we got out of town, the fresh morning air breezing through the natural ventilation system.

We drove past more swamps, there were caimans, loads of birds, a few villages, forests and cultivated land. We went across rivers on ferries three times. The first time everybody jumped out and rushed to the empanadas stall at the ferry landing and none was left for us. We got our revenge on the following.

There were a few bridges. One seen from the ferry, as it was under construction. Another one from where we could see unemployed ferries, as it was completed.

In Trinidad it was moto city. We took a mototaxi to the bus terminal, bought our ticket to Santa Cruz for the evening, dropped the bags, took a mototaxi to the plaza, rented a brand new motorbike, and off to the countryside.

First stop along the river, to have a good river fish meal. Then off for more exploration, and driving classes for Lucie. She learned fast, and then I had to fight to be allowed to drive again. We drove to Puerto Delgada, a bit lost, and back, before trying to find the Laguna Suarez. A huge laguna, with a nice waterside café restaurant... where there was no coffee!!! Anyway it was time to head back, we returned the motorbike and found real coffee in Trinidad. Not the best for my still sore belly, but hey. I had more contractions, I should have been on a strict rice diet but I figured out the lomo would do more good to the palate than bad to the belly!

In the evening we boarded our bus in time, after a last mototaxi rush as I had forgotten my battery charger and battery in an internet café...

We were dirty and stinky, longing for a hot shower in tropical Santa Cruz.
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