After we got back from the jungle on Wednesday the luxuries of a shower, shave, takeaway pizza and a sleep in a proper bed with air conditioning were very welcome!Thursday was our little trip in to the unknown on a boat down the Amazon river, for the experience rather than because we actually needed to to make any progress, and we made our way down to the docks to find our hammocks. We knew that the worst place to be hung was in the middle row and so it wa...

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...

For once a bus actually took less than what it should have and we arrived in Santa Elena de Uairen on the border with Brazil at a silly time in the morning on Friday. This didn't help my mood as my chair on the bus was broken and so I pretty much got no sleep at all. We got taxis with Tom, a guy who we had met in Caracas and then again in Ciudad Bolivar, to a hostel but had to wait outside for around an hour until it actually opened because it was so early. At 6...

We arrived belatedly into hot as hell Ciudad Bolivar on Sunday morning and checked into a really cool converted old mansion for our hostel. We really needed to get a few bits and bobs done (the most important of which was definately to wash my entire bag!), but the guy at the hostel just laughed at us expecting to get anything at all achieved, since it was a Sunday, and also a public holiday (yet again!) celebrating the fact that the river was reaching it'...