After an early breakfast we take a guided hike through the Apa Apa forest, which is famous among birdwatchers for its bird life and has lots of local flora represented. It is the last pocket of original forest of this area. It gives a good idea of what the surrounding valleys and gullies looked like before the influx of colonizers from the highlands.
After an early lunch we depart for the Paste Grande, the road snakes up and down the surrounding hills until it reaches the valley of river La Paz. This is the lowest point of our trip at about 1000 m (3280 f), and is full of mango, citrus and coffee plantations. Here the relatively good road ends and we start to climb into virtually unpopulated mountainous region.
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