Hell, it's hot down here - hot in an ice-cream-one-second-gone-the-next kind of way.

And so it is that the remote Amazonian town of Rurrenabaque has become a Mecca for heat-struck backpackers.

Easily the hottest spot in the Bolivian lowlands, Rurrenabaque has earned itself the reputation as a cheap place to sweat away the days in between drifting off into the surrounding rainforest or pampas to bond with wild nature and anacondas.