None stop rain for two days meant that all flights out of
Rurrenabaque were cancelled until the grassy airfield dried up. Unless you fancied the 24 hour journey bus back to La
Paz on a mud slick (no thanks!) then you were stranded.
This meant a few days of bumping into the same gringos & going to the same decent eateries over & over. We had been warned about what is commonly known to travellers as "
Boli Belly", the trick is to avoid salads (the
lettuces here get
irrigated by sewage water!), ice cubes, street food & generally be
prepared to turn away food if you suspect dodgy hygiene in the kitchen. Anyway,
despite trying to follow this advice we inevitably both got bad tummies (in fact after a visit to the hospital the other day, Mike suffered for a whole week - poor boy!).
This meant a few days of bumping into the same gringos & going to the same decent eateries over & over. We had been warned about what is commonly known to travellers as "Boli Belly", the trick is to avoid salads (the lettuces here get irrigated by sewage water!), ice cubes, street food & generally be prepared to turn away food if you suspect dodgy hygiene in the kitchen. Anyway, despite trying to follow this advice we inevitably both got bad tummies (in fact after a visit to the hospital the other day, Mike suffered for a whole week - poor boy!).
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