Day 8 We woke early again to avoid the sandflies piled into the boat and had our breckie.....boo quinoa rice pudding, the first and only horrid meal, however warm which was nice. We then arrived to the lovely paradise that is Erika lodge, where we sat in hammocks and played with Coca the Macaw who posed nicely for piccies. We then started the very long trip back to Atalya port, sleeping most of the way, every now and then Noe would mumble birds names and we...

Day 7 We woke up really late, 7am and went in for breakfast to find out the weather in Cusco was dreadful and so the flights were on hold....slightly worrying for Lea who had her international flight the next morning. Those of us who were not flying kept asking what we would get to do...unfortunately we were the least of their worries. We ended up packing up and going back to Boca Manu to wait for them, god knows why as Oliver was going to stay and fly bac...

Day 6 We woke early as usual and had to pack up all our stuff and put our big bags on the boat, we then set off with our day packs for a long walk it was drizling so we had our anoraks, soon after we went into the forest the rain started heavily, even under the canopy where its supposed to take 11 mins for one raindrop to hit the floor. We were drenched pretty much straight away as we'd failed for the first time to bring our heavy duty ponchos, bought for t...

Day 5 Today we went off on another early morning walk back along the same track towards Salvador lake and then onwards for a further 8 km to Otorongo lake to an observation tower to watch the giant otters. Unfortunatley this was pretty uneventful appart from the bizarre and rare Harlequin beetle that we saw. Oh well it was still the jungle. After lunch we headed back again to Salvador Lake on an otter hunt. Noe and Oliver paddled us along the lake were we...

Day 4 Again we rose at 5:15am tanks to Noe our alarm clock, apparently to avoid the bugs, however Claire woke up to find she had been eaten alive during the night, literally hundreds of bites, while Ian had only a few, we are starting to think she had anti-deet in her blood. We packed the boat quickly and headed off with breakfast on the move. We then registered at the rangers headquarters as we were entering the reserved zone, which is restricted (they even wa...