16/4/16 I can’t believe I’m here, after so many years wondering! So guess where I am, today 16th April for five nights and days? I am in the Amazon jungle!!!! Through creeks to the lodge area of several stilted shacks, with tin rooves, two larger grass- roofed buildings housing dining room and hammocks. My view from …
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Monkey business!
Amazing day in the Amazon!!!! After lunch at the lodge, we went out 3-6pm to the rescue site Monkey Island, where monkeys and other animals are set free after black market trades. There were woolly monkeys, squirrel monkey, capuchi monkeys too. We saw a 6ft Anaconda slithering to freedom after just arriving, whilst the other …
Amazon Adventure!
I've always been intrigued by the wild and scary Amazon I've seen on TV and read about, and the wildlife, tribes and flora - but the reality is different. It's serene, peaceful and the lifeblood of the people there, and there are animals and flora but so much morecpositive than I believed. And I fell in …
Amazon again!
So on 21st April 2016 I returned to the beautiful, peaceful jungle! I went to the Maniti office next door to my hotel (purely accidental but very convenient!) for 8.45 am, for a 9am start. I found Rene was to be my guide this time and I was happy with that as he seemed nice …
