Yeahhhh Rum ain't great for a recovering stomach. Today's been very chill, minimal eating, minimal moving. Not sure if I really got any sleep 'last night' so definitely been making the best of having a hotel room. Its just really weird having a room key! Despite that I still got out and saw a bit of Trinidad. The city is very off the tourist trail. The streets are wide, and lined with stinking open sewers. Seemingly every shop is either a tattoo parlour, a chic...

Let's get into this then... My journey into the Amazon didn't start that well. What I mean by that is the night before taking a 7 hour bus trip from Santa Cruz to the Ambue Ari park I spent roughly an hour violently throwing up a small pizza into the dorm toilet. Luckily, this was an extreme but short bout for food poisoning reering its head once again, and I felt perfectly fine the following morning. The bus journey north was long. The scenery is largely just ...