After our three days of adventure in the jungle it was time to get back to civilization. We still had one day in Rurrenabaque before taking our fight back to La Paz. Rurrenabaque is halfway between a really big village and a really small town. It has a local market, as all the communities living along the river come here once a week to exchange their products for wares that they cannot locally produce - clothes, sugar, some crops. But the town is increasingly a significant hub for tourists - a place to chill out before or after a jungle adventure. It is not a particularly beautiful village on its own but, to our own surprise, we spent quite a magnificent day there.
We started our day by going to a lookout point for a great view on the town. When we climbed up the hill, we discovered a great restaurant that had a swimming pool with a view on the town. We started talking to the waitress, and we found her to be very nice and the place so relaxing that we spent half a day there. We swam in the pool, talked to the waitress, drank some fruit cocktails and played a couple of games of pool. We felt like in a resort somewhere in the Caribbean. Such a nice change after months in a rather cold and harsh environment!
And to top it up, we discovered a really great restaurant, with the best food I've had since I left Poland in June. The chef was Tunisian, the ambience was very cozy and I had the best service in Bolivia. I ate a local fish in a Roquefort sauce - mmmmmmmm delicious!
It was a very un-bolivian day but it felt so good to relax after the jungle experience and before going back in the Andes. So if you ever go to see the jungle in Rurrenabaque, I recommend to you an extra day to pamper yourself. You will not regret it!
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