Friday 22nd May

I check the time and it's 4:30am. I hear steps and wonder what is beneath me but two drowsy to check. Later the guide says there were armadillos about. I'm asleep when Malcolm wakes me at 7.
Breakfast is coffee and crackers. I try adding sugar to mine but end up shaking the lid off and end up with a lot! And a lot on the ground. The take down is quick and soon we are off to a local families home. We walk around and see what they grow. We walk around their land.
Lots of pineapples, poisonous cassava, the yummy white fluffy seeds and more. I think pineapples is their main crop. We see a little owl on the ground. Apparently monkeys like to eat at the plantation. We are showed how they process the poisonous cassava. It's a long process of river soaking for days, crushing and heating. It can kill humans quite quickly, but it's fine for pigs.
Inside their house we view their things for sale. Mostly acai berry jewellery, but some t-shirts, honey and tree oil. The bracelets look cool, but we worry about getting them trough customs.
We get changed into shorts and we leave for the lodge. We stop in some ppl go swimming. Malcolm goes in. I want to go in, but don't know why I don't. The water is very warm and a clear tea colour. We continue on our way, but it starts to pour down very heAvy. We are soaked quickly, my shoes feel like lakes. When we get to the lodge we try and have a shower. There is like no water- probably everyone showering at once. Malcolm gets a drip, I get nothing. But there is water from the basin, so we do a cup brigade which works quite well. We try to hang our things to dry, but the weather is still quite iffy. We have lunch. The others in our group eat some piranhas the guide caught for us. After lunch we ensure our stuff is packed up and get ready to leave. On the boat ride back it pours again and we have to put the sides down, but the poor ppl at the front get very wet. We take the vans back to the port. We chat to the American guy about travel. The boat ride back is uneventful and we catch taxi to our hostel with a couple from the uk. She is traveling for 6 months in South America and is half way through.
We check in and find out Malcolm's credit card doesn't work.
We drop our things to our room and walk to the supermarket. When we return we try and figure out how to contact the bank. Seems kind of complicated to make a long distance collect call.
We cook rice risotto for dinner.