Its nice to have a stroll along the river, in dry season this is the closest you can get to sea beaches in Bolivia, long stretches of sandy beach with plenty of space to put up your towel.
Sometimes people play chess in the library, you can ask there if you want to have a game.
25 km from Riberalta on the road towards La Paz is the community Tumichucua, which in native language means Isle of Palms. Here thereâs a beautiful lake with a tropical Island in the centre.
There is an old Rubber-boom city, founded 1882, 90 km from Riberalta. During the rubber- boom this was the biggest city of Beni. The travel agency offers trips here.
Las Piedras, in Gonzalo Moreno, is a small town about 5 km from Riberalta on the other side of Rio Beni. You can get here by motorbike, taxi or bicycle. When youâve crossed the river, go uphill a bit and where the road turns left there is a small path leading into the forest and to some inca ruins. They might be a little hard to spot, it is actually a fort and a wall where the river used to pass. Since the rivers are moving in the amazon, this fort was close to a rivercrossing between Rio Madre and Rio Beni. A strategical point for trading or military purposes. Not much research is done so far but an investigation was made by the university of Helsinki about 4 years ago. Archeological pieces was discovered and most of them are now in a museum in Lima while there is still a few pieces in the town of Las Piedras.
About 2 km from the ruins and the river is the town of Las Piedras. When you enter the town there is a small store at the right hand side next to the football field where you can have food youâll have to order in advance, play pool and also stay the night if youâd like. In the town there is also rests of a long wall built by the Incas. To see the archeological pieces, know more about the Inca ruins and the history of the Incas in the amazon, you can ask for a man named Mr Carlos Chipunano. If you speak a little Spanish, he can show you around and tell you about the facts known about the Incas around here for a tip.
If you want to go further, there is a lake about 9 km from Las Piedras. In half of the way there is a resort currently under construction where you can have a swim, food, snacks and stay in cabins.
