We landed in Dallas just before 9am and made our way through an interesting new electronic immigration system - but having checked in with the system we did not have to collect our baggage which was routed all the way to London. Having cleared customs and immigration we went back through security and to the American Airlines lounge where we got ourselves on the shower list - we had to wait a while but it was worth it - clean fresh and human again we had a relaxin...

Last day! Most made the 5am wake up and we headed off down the path for about 20minutes to a bird hide they had built right by a parrots clay lick. We had to be there before the parrots so as not to frighten them. We didn't have to wait long as soon they were amassing in the trees - we spent a great 90 minutes or so watching - blue headed parrots ( the first to arrive) meelly parrots with the red flash on their wings, chestnut fronted macaws and yellow headed par...

Even though we were in bed by 8pm last night 4am came very quickly this morning. Head torches on and candles lit we got dressed and headed to the dining area for breakfast with 13 bleary eyed but good hearted compatriots! We were away and walking down the path and seemingly many steps, which always seemed more on the return journey, to the boat and headed down stream to a landing where having alighted we walked for a further 10-15 minutes to an oxbow lake. There ...

Even though we had the chance of a lie in we were first into breakfast - we had everything packed - John did his normal huffing and puffing but everything went in. When we got to the airport we were well under the 23kg at 19.5kg - others were touching 27kgs and had to pay excess baggage! We were quickly through security, the only place to perch was at the coffee bar where we felt duty bound to imbibe a really hot cappuccino - the best outside Starbucks! The pla...

Today was a free day - but we would rather be in the Amazon now - it was more of the same and we needed animals and wildlife not shops and buildings! After breakfast, followed by packing and a much deserved Starbucks Caramel Macchiato we wandered around a 'more local' rather than touristy shopping area and had lunch overlooking a square. As we were ground level we had lots of people trying to sell us things from llama key rings to Peruvian hats all of which we d...