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The Jungle Story
A long, long time ago there was a little girl who sat in her primary school classroom fascinated by the stories her teacher was telling about this place called the rainforest and all the animals, plants and trees which lived there. How could this place exist with all these brightly coloured creatures, and why couldn't she be somewhere so exciting she dreamed as she did the worksheets... And here she is, (only a good couple of decades and a bit later) finally getting to visit a ...
Sami community
Another early 5.30am breakfast and back to the main river for a spot of bird watching. The first bird spotted by Luis was a pretty ugly brown bird perched on top of a stick. It was pretty well camouflaged and even through binoculars tricky to see, we nick-named it the 'stick bird'. We waited at this spot for quite a while and eventually lots of different species of parrots, green, yellow headed and purple headed (no idea what the real names) are appeared on the ...
More jungle!
So with our early breakfast we set off just after 6am for our 'canopy' walk. Paddling first we spotted tons of macaws, all in pairs, the guide got ever so excited! Then we walked up 202 steps (Gemma counted them!) to a big treehouse high above the canopy in a Capoc tree. The tree itself was hundreds of years old, and pretty cool with a massive trunk and these cool cotton ball looking seed pods at the top. We were there for over an hour taking in the view, seeing lots ...
Our Rumble in the Jungle
... learnt to love us as "the most useless group he had even taken out"; a funny incident involving us all, a stick, a swamp of mud and a seriously embarrassing lack of stability. Who needs a T.V? watching us try to walk in a straight line was funny enough! These are just a few of the great memories we'll take from our time in the jungle.
4 days, the end of the season and a whole wonder of wildlife to ...
Tarantulas & Snakes
... the middle). And it is cold too….especially at night – a bit of a shock to the system and means a lack of tan from now on L
However we have decided to book a trip to the Amazon/rainforest place to the East of Quito (to see some wildlife and keep the tan topped up!). So we (Carina whom I am travelling with and myself) duly took the 8 hour bus out to the east, then another 2 hours on a bus and then another 2 hours in a little canoe ...
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