It poured with rain all night, which sent me to sleep with ease. And then throughout the morning the downpour continued, monsoon style! Now i know why its called a rainforest! This put a 'dampener' on our excursion as we headed to hike some more in the primary area of the jungle reserve. I was the only one to travel to the reserve on top of the bus. The rain doesn't really bother us English and I wanted to enjoy then views. Got drenched though. The whole area l...

Sleeping in the jungle is hard. With all the strange noises and the tarantula stories running through my head...I couldn't switch off. The morning came and we had a traditional breakfast...fried bananas, egg and tomato. Then another hike through the terrain, to get to a jungle healer's hut. He performed an odd cleansing ceremony on each of us which consisted of blowing cigar-like smoke on us, whistling and muttering to himself.....so pretty much any old day wit...

I was in a tiny airport lounge waiting to grab a flight to the amazon. It was posh and had free food and drink which we could take as we pleased. I have never experienced such good service, and felt like taking everything as it was FREE! I refrained from doing so, but I still felt my inner-jew nagging me to do so. In the jungle, the mighty jungle! I arrived by a small by-plane to the amazon and travelled by canoe for 2 and a half hours to the lodge I'm staying i...

I was in a tiny airport lounge waiting to grab a flight to the amazon. It was posh and had free food and drink which we could take as we pleased. I have never experienced such good service, and felt like taking everything as it was FREE! I refrained from doing so, but I still felt my inner-jew nagging me to do so. In the jungle, the mighty jungle! I arrived by a small by-plane to the amazon and travelled by canoe for 2 and a half hours to the lodge I'm staying i...

Before I left galapagos I wanted a chill out night, so I put the 3 women from my house through a horror film i bought from a local pirate DVD place. Watching the different cultures react was great. The English girl looked away when she knew what was coming, the German girl hated it but just watched and kept quiet. The Australian would try and talk to the characters, ask questions constantly and jump/scream loudly. Watching her was waaay more entertaining than the...