Introducing Guanay
Isolated Guanay makes a good base for visits to the gold-mining operations along the Ríos Mapiri and Tipuani. If you can excuse the utter rape of the landscape for the sake of gold, chatting with the down-to-earth miners and barranquilleros (panners) can make for a particularly interesting experience. This area and points upriver are frontier territory that may be reminiscent of the USA’s legendary Old West. Gold is legal tender in shops and saloons, and the foundations of the local culture appear to be gambling, prostitutes and large hunks of beef.
Advertisement
Last updated: Feb 17, 2009
Thorn Tree forum discussion
Recent posts
-
Re: Boat trip from Guanay to Rurrenabaque - around the 28th of May
by caipibara 05 May 2012
Great help, thanks! By any chance have you done the raft trip with Deep Rainforest and can tell me if this is more interesting (and less…
-
Re: Boat trip from Guanay to Rurrenabaque - around the 28th of May
by aslukas 03 May 2012
There are quite a few operators who offer trips on that route. Deep Rainforest runs two trips a week, one on a motorized boat and one…
-
Boat trip from Guanay to Rurrenabaque - around the 28th of May
by caipibara 03 May 2012
I am trying to get a group together for a guided boat-trip from Guanay (old mining town on the Beni River) to Rurrenabaque for the end…
In our shop
Bags feeling light?
Coffee table looking bare?
Get your guidebooks, travel goods, even individual chapters, right here.
Hotels & Hostels
Check out all our reviewed and recommended accommodation and book online.
Advertisement
