Three Day Boat Through the Amazon Jungle - Mapiri, Bolivia (walking palm in spanish, rio mapiri)

A TripAdvisor™ TripWow video of a travel blog to Mapiri, Bolivia by TravelPod blogger Carlo_divita. See this TripWow and more at tripwow.tripadvisor.com Three Day Boat Through the Amazon Jungle "Mapiri, on the Rio Mapiri, one of the hundreds of rivers that eventually feed into the Amazon, was where we kicked off our three day boat ride in a 10 metre long, 1.5 metre wide wooden dugout canoe. The first 3 hour leg down to Guanay passed through some pristine jungle. It was a very relaxing cruise down the river. The river itself is a deep brown due to the local villagers mining for gold along the river banks. Although it was sad to see that some parts of the jungle had been destroyed, we can’t say we don't do the same thing at home. After a further cruise down the river we pulled into camp for the night. It was a beautiful spot with its own cascades and deep pool for swimming and a short walk through the jungle to a rock lookout. The next morning we followed the river up for a while and came to a ten metre high water fall. After a refreshing swim and a bit of rock diving, we headed back to the boat for some more relaxing cruising through the jungle. We pulled up for a one hour walk through the jungle where we got to see a large range of the weird plants and trees in the Amazon jungle. There is the shy grass which folds its leaves up when you touch it, the tree that grows barnacles up its trunk to protect it's fruit, the parasite tree which grows down the side of another large ...

Channel: YouTube Video Length: 2m 39s Date Found: Fri, Jan 21 2011 7:42 AM Category: Travel Date Produced: Fri, Jan 21 2011 2:43 AM View Count: 0