4:15 in the morning and we drag ourselves out of bed in preparation for our Pampas adventure! Taxi to the airport for our 35min flight, as opposed to a 20h bus trip! Stepping out of the twenty seater plane we were hit by a wall of hot, humid air. After breakfast in a nice French bakery we were ready to begin our trip. We bundled into the back of an old land-cruiser for a sweltering 3h drive to the river, stopping for petrol and queueing for about twenty mins was torture! We clambered aboard the boat (traditional Amazon style, with 15 horse power motor cobbled on the back), for the other section of the journey to the lodge. Whilst on the boat we saw loads of different animals and birds. Including, but not exclusively, Alligators (not
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