Journey to the Andes: The Holy Trinity

Tuesday, May 16, 2006

The Holy Trinity

I have never seen so many cute girls in my entire life. I love Trinidad. But not just for that, it's a neat city too. But my god...

My stay in Rurre was pretty neat, it's a cool little place right on the Rio Beni. I met up with some rockin' Irish "lads" and we did a couple trips together. From Rurre you can do trips to the pampas and the jungle to see wildlife and the rainforest, and we did both of them. Between pirannah fishing, petting alligators, catching anacondas, and swinging on vines like tarzan (no, really) they were pretty fun trips! And I've discovered that the Irish are damn awesome folk.

I took a fairly crappy bus ride here to Trinidad...I left Rurre at 10:00 at night and drove via minibus until 4:00 in the morning to a place called San Borja. We all slept (or tried to) in the van for 4 hours, when we switched busses and drove until about 4 this afternoon along the dustiest road I have ever seen in my life. Apparantly the road is really awful in the rainy season, but in the dry season (as it is now) it's just a big dust bowl. Everything was covered in dust all inside the bus. And we had to ferry across 3 rivers to get here...and the ferries aren't quite as high tech as they are in Canada. They consist of a shottily built wooded float that the bus and all the people go on, and it's pushed by a single motorized canoe. Brilliant.

Trinidad is really nice...it's like a different country on this side of Bolivia. There are far less indigenous people and much more spanish looking people...and way more rediculously good looking girls. There's a lot more money here, too. I don't know how much longer I'll be here for, probably 2 days or so depending, and then I'm off on a boat, probably down south, and then off to Santa Cruz.

Andrew: Don't think I can play the concert, but I'll come and watch. We'll talk later. Don't hold your breath for any more pictures.

Ellie: Thanks again for the okanagan pictures. I have been fortunate enough to not have had any run ins with large insects, but I know that they do exist down here.

Anne: I wasn't going to tell them that story, Anne.

Take care guys, smell ya later!

posted by Ben @ 4:54 PM

4 Comments:

At 6:45 PM, Anonymous said…

Hi, Ben! Good to see your eye is still on the ladies... :) Your description of your trip to Trinidad reminded me of that wretched journey to Victoria, except it had no snowstorms, Ethiopian dog-haters (do you remember that guy?), or guys called Hee-Haw.

Hope you trip continues to go well. I'm so back on the coffee, and have been since about two hours after I told you I was off, so we'll totally get together when you get back.
At 9:12 PM, Andrés Paz said…

Yo Ben-star,

I really, really, really need to get back to South America, im going nuts here...

Did you break your camera?
At 8:11 PM, Ben said…

Andrew, you freaking concha de mierda, do you want to come down here and put my pictures on the internet for me? It takes like 3 freaking hours, tu pajero grande. Jesocristo.

Brianne, i totally remember that dude, and I think he was actually Sudanese. I just remember that he wouldn't shut up about how much he hated dogs. He liked goats, cows, sheep, whatever, but not dogs. Who was hee-haw? I dont' remember that. Hah, I remember going to JJ bean at like 5 in the freaking morning just to kill time before we could go to value village to buy the virgin seducer...haha, good times my friend, good times.
At 8:44 AM, Andrés Paz said…

hahahaha!

Relaharse!

I'm impressed by your extensive profane vocabulary