So ive finally made it out here to join jonny and have been allowed to write the blog!! On Sunday we set off on my first trip, which to break me in gently was just (!) a 4 day trek into the deepest darkest amazon rainforest. Unsurprisingly I was bricking it, I can barely cope with overnight camping trips in England never mind the jungle!! So we got in a taxi to the port and then on a boat, where we saw the first attraction of the trip which was the joining of t...

So we finally arrived into Manaus on Wednesday morning and Riggers and I found the hostel which Heather and Claire had eventually been able to get sorted the day before whilst we spent our days apart. Ever since I had studied about Manaus and it's place in the Amazon during Geography classes at school, I had built up this image of what it was going to be like in my head.  In reality it seems just like any other average sized Brazilian town, and other than the h...