What can I do in the Beni?

Jungle trips into Madidi National Park and pampas river tours from Rurrenabaque, with pink river dolphins, caiman, capybara and superb birdlife.

What is the difference between the jungle and the pampas?

The Madidi jungle is dense rainforest, best for towering trees, monkeys and a soundscape of birds and insects; the pampas are open, flooded grasslands where wildlife is far easier to spot from a boat.

When is the best time to visit?

May to October (drier) means easier trails and prime pampas wildlife-watching; the wetter months bring higher rivers and lush forest. It is warm year-round.

Things to do in El Beni

The Beni is Bolivia's Amazon lowland — a vast, watery world of rainforest and seasonally flooded pampas, reached from the jungle town of Rurrenabaque. Together with neighbouring Madidi National Park it offers some of the richest and most accessible wildlife-watching anywhere in the Amazon basin.

Madidi jungle and Beni pampas

Rainforest lodge stays and jungle walks in Madidi National Park, and river and canoe trips into the Beni pampas — pink river dolphins, caiman, capybara and anaconda — from Rurrenabaque, in the Amazon lowlands. Open the Book here tab for dates.