Where was I..... somewhere halfway down the Amazon, I think. So.... I've already tried four times to update about the time I spent in the jungle from Manaus and each time lost all my work (yes, I know, I should've saved!). Suffice to say it was an incredible and unforgettable experience, involving camping with our hammocks deep in the jungle, spear fishing in the dead of night, breakfast with a local family (we even tasted a type of large rat they were preparing.. and FYI, it was quite nice), piranha fishing, silently canoeing through the dense jungle looking for monkeys, jaguars, sloths and anything else of interest. One night we stayed in a local house, where the family all crowd round the 3 inch battery powered TV each night to watch the brazilian soaps and the
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