February 2-5: Amazon Jungle

Into the jungle we go! It took 2 hours on a bus and 4 hours on a boat to reach our lodge in the Cuyabeno Reserve. A six-foot anconda who had just ate a small animal was at our campsite to greet us. Other lovely creatures we saw as we canoed through the balck rivers and hiked the jungle - monkeys, dolphins, scorpions, tarantulas, bats and cockroaches. And everything is bigger in the jungle. The jungle is so alive you don´t touch anything for fear of getting a parasite or being bitten. We also visited a native community.



All the bugs loved my bags and clothes, especially the cockroaches.