Just some of the wildlife seen on the three day river and wetlands tour out of Rurrenbaque. The alligator you see here is one of hundreds that we saw basking on the bank of the river. We got so close up to some of these that we could have reached out and touched them if we were completely crazy. Which, by the by, our guide certifiably was; amongst many other acts of insanity, his antics included chasing a deadly cobra through the grass and catching it by the tail, jumping out of the boat to antagonise an alligator by repeatedly slapping it on the head and chin and calling us all "siñoritas" whenever we expressed any reluctance to, say, swim in the same river we had the day before caught around thirty piranhas out of.

Of course, we ended up going swimming. Piranhas and alligators are one thing, being called a girl is entirely another.