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17JAN12
In 2012, Paul Jones and Jodie van Dieen ran a test run of a potential future Bolivia tour. A big success, you can see the results with Paul Jones' photos and trip report. The results caught us by surprise, as both the Sadiri rainforest lodge adn the Barba Azul Nature Reserve are not open yet.

The Barba Azul Nature Reserve is in the development process, with hopes that it will be open for tourism by June 2012. Asociacion Armonia has protected an important 11,000 acres of Beni grasslands, which also holds the world’s highest concentration of the Critically Endangered Blue-throated Macaw- around 90 individuals. Armonia has completed a field station on the reserve which can offer basic accomodations for 2012. But they also need to develop tourism services, and ideally in the long-term a lodge.

The other is a birding lodge in the foothill mountains of Madidi National Park, called Sadiri. This is a project by Pueblo Nuevo working with the community of San Jose de Uchupiamonas to protect over 80,000 acres of rainforest with the income from tourism. The lodge is in the cooler mountains, offering access to foothill and rainforest habitat. The lodge should be ready to open May 2012.

Both will be a great addition to our tours in Bolivia.