Day 20: 20/7/12 Woke at 3:30am with the cold!! You wouldn't expect that in the jungle. The yanks were awake shortly after and talking which kept us up. We wanted to give Lucho a tip (the done thing around here). He was supposed to wake the yanks at 5:30 so we were planning on catching him then, but of course they were ahead of schedule and already at breakfast by then. When we had our breakfast they were gone on the trip so we left a note with the tip in it for ...

Day 19: 19/7/12 Woken this morning to what we thought was rain but it was drops falling of the trees and a russet-backed olopendula bird (sounds like a drop). By the way, our day attire leaves a lot to be desired! Muireann has stayed in the same clothes- sleeping and living for the last four days- she feels mank, as you can imagine! I have changed at night but mostly the same day clothes. We wear our trousers tucked into our socks so the ants won't get into ou...

Day 18:18/7/12 Our first full day in the jungle! Got a wake-up call at about 4:50am and then had breakfast- fried eggs and toast! Not too jungly! Headed off hiking at about 5:30am. It was bright enough to see without a torch. We walked for two hours through the jungle and then got to a lake and spent some time there looking for creatures and then walked for two hours back to the lodge! The guide was stepping it out fairly quickly so it wasn't a case of strolli...

Day 17: 17/7/12 Up at 4:30am for the flight to the jungle! Not a wink of sleep with the brazilians all coming in at various hours of the night. Got to the airport, checked in, had breakfast, got on the plane no hassle at all. Although they did have a security check for our checked suitcases which was weird. They asked had I any matches, lighter, alcohol, oxygen or pepper spray! I thought the oxygen bit was quite strange! The plane was very short- only 35 minut...