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woodpeckersBirds of Interandean Valleys, Bolivia. Cream-back michaelblendinger 1,447 views www.discoveringbolivia.com Entdecken Sie die Natur und Kultur Boliviens. Willkommen! Wir -Michael Blendinger Nature Tours- sind ein kleines öko-touristisches Unternehmen mi...
woodpecker Noel Kempff Nat. Park, Bolivia. Cream-colored Woo michaelblendinger 590 views www.discoveringbolivia.com Birding Liviano de 17días/16noches con Michael Blendinger Nature Tours en 4x4 a Patrimonios Culturales y Naturales de Bolivia Oriental. Cerrado, ...
waterfowl .Birds in Highland Lagoons, Bolivia. Andean Goose michaelblendinger 4,315 views www.discoveringbolivia.com 14 Days / 13 Nights of Intense Birding with Michael Blendinger Nature Tours in 4WD trough Central and Western Bolivia. Chaco, Valleys, Cloud Fore...
toucanet michaelblendinger 1,046 views www.discoveringbolivia.com En 4x4 a Yunga, PN Amboró. Samaipata al Bosque de Helechos Las Lauras. Con Michael Blendinger Nature Tours. Al amanecer, antes de subir al bosque...
Pujllay Traditional dances. Bolivia.Folk Dances. El Alto michaelblendinger 20,913 views www.discoveringbolivia.com Michael Blendinger Nature Tours offers 14Days/13Nightsof Birdwatching Light in 4WD while sight-seeing Natural and Cultural Patrimonies of the Cen...
The most dangerous road in the World. Bolivia.Dropping 3000m michaelblendinger 18,600 views www.discoveringbolivia.com Birding Liviano de 3 Semanas con Michael Blendinger Nature Tours en 4x4 hacia Patrimonios Naturales y Culturales de Bolivia Central y Sur occiden...
Geysire in Sajama Nationalpark, Bolivia michaelblendinger 3,638 views www.discoveringbolivia.com Michael Blendinger Nature Tours. Bolivien. Die wichtigsten Kennzeichen seiner Natur sind: 1.- Bolivien verfügt über zwei im Bereich der Natur...
Stone Forest.Villamar Village. Bolivia.On the way from Uyuni michaelblendinger 4,698 views www.discoveringbolivia.com BOLIVIA ¡Un destino por descubrir! Michael Blendinger Nature Tours. Por su posición geográfica, entre los 10 y 23 grados de latitud sur, en el c...
Birds of the backyards, Bolivia. Rufous-collared Sparrow michaelblendinger 1,628 views www.discoveringbolivia.com 7 Days / 6 Nights of Birdwatching Light with Michael Blendinger Nature Tours. In 4WD to Cultural and Natural Patrimonies of Central Bolivia. Chac...
Landscapes. Sama Mountain Range. Flamingos and ... michaelblendinger 263 views www.discoveringbolivia.com Michael Blendinger Nature Tours

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Making Contact with Nature and Culture!

The title describes us best. You may already know us, but for those who have yet to share an adventure, here's the story:

Michael Blendinger is an Environmental Educator and outdoors fanatic, especially when it comes to bird-watching. German-born and raised in Buenos Aires, he founded an environmental education institution based on first-hand contact with nature in 1989. While leading volunteer native species tree reforestation and organic garden programs, he graduated as biologist, bird watching guide, and eventually as cowboy too. He continued on to become a university professor meanwhile coordinating extracurricular science workshops outside of Buenos Aires and guiding groups for trekking, nature interpretation, and bird-watching in Patagonia, Mendoza, and Cataratas de Iguazú. His taste for adventure has taken him far from family, friends, and his life in Argentina, and has led him to the most naturally pristine and culturally authentic country in Latin America: Bolivia.

In 1999 Gaby Cunningham arrived in Bolivia to volunteer helping to build a Center for Nature Interpretation in the Noel Kempff M. National Park. Looking for a change from her life as a family lawyer in Buenos Aires, she moved to Samaipata, where she quickly became aware of the town's concerns, and participated in a education project involving waste collection and management, and promoted a improved integration of our programs with the local community. She makes friends quickly with her capacity for tailoring excursions that perfectly suit our many unique visitors. Gaby is the public relations administrator, cabaña rental manager, and she also runs our ethnic handicrafts shop. With the help of guides and local scouts we are able to offer alternative programs at a low cost.

Involved with environmental education since 1989, we offer tours based in the concepts of ecotourism and responsible tourism. Michael Blendinger Nature Tours is a meeting point between the interests of our guests and our vocation and lifestyle. We have been legally established as a Receptive Tourism Operator Business (license RD-07-VT-0115), and our fundamental philosophy is to satisfy our client's needs and desires for quality and security in their search of nature, adventure, and recreation in Samaipata, Amboró, Carrasco, Noel Kempff National Parks and Pantanal. We are pioneers in following the steps of the famous revolutionary Guerilla Che Guevara, and in discovering the route of the naturalist explorer Alcides D'Orbigny. We deliberately avoid the areas that are saturated with tourists, and every year we offer innovated new sites where few have gone before. As we are Samaipatans by choice, we are interested in conserving the identity and cultural heritage of the region while at the same time facilitating a greater understanding between persons of different cultures and social classes.

Michael personally guides bird-watchers and groups that are seriously interested in nature. He also participates in the designing of a sustainable tourism strategy for Samaipata and Amboró Nat. Park, designs tourist information centers for visitors and writes articles about ecotourism for local papers. But more than anything he loves to take his binoculars and backpack and go exploring new areas with new friends and his faithful dog Schatzie, sharing adventures that let him dream up new routes and programs through which to Discover the Nature and Culture of Bolivia.

So, -that's our story. We don't have a staff that's waiting to sell you a canned tour. When you contact us by phone or email, you will be reaching our tile-roof adobe office on the cobbled street of a small Bolivian village. Perhaps Gaby will be helping guests settle in to one of the valley's cabañas, and Michael might be out exploring new routes in the cloud forest of Amboró National Park, or conducting a census of the endemic red fronted macaw in a cacti desert. But one of us will soon return your call personally, and you can count with someone who genuinely loves adventure amidst nature, with hands on knowledge of our programs.

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