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Jungle tour
Hello everyone. We have emerged from our jungle tour very happy but also very stinky - the humidity was high and the whole trip was a bit sweaty - nothing ever dried out so we all needed a laundry badly. Now that we are sweat smelling and indulging in the hotel´s aircon, we feel better! The tour was amazing - we stayed 2 nights at the Explorama …
Heading deeper into the Jungle to Explornapo
And the Adventure continues... two nights at ExplorNapo Lodge and then traveled by foot over land "on tambo" for a true jungle camping experience. Once again, the flora and fauna change and diversify the deeper we go in the the rain forest! From the tambo camp we headed to Aceer Labratory (also over land on foot) for two amazing days in the Canopy …
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The amazon
... went back out on a boat to look for some nocturnal animals. We went to an area of reeds where we were looking for caimans (similar to alligators). The boat drove us right into the reeds which had numerous spiders hanging just above head height and a guy was perched on the front of the boat ready to try and catch one! At one point the guy went to grab something and ended up falling head over heals straight into the spider and caiman infested reeds and water!the guy was a ...
3 iron or the machete??
... spotted one. They aren’t poisonous according to Estaban but the zoom on the camera was flat out with lads wanting a running start if he did get angry.
Back to the lodge then for bedtime. The whole place is powered by generators so early night for the lads with lights out a 9.30pm. Even in just the Y fronts, the heat was chronic in the room. Also even AC/DC up the last on the ipod couldn’t drown out the noise from the frogs and crickets ...


