Had a brilliant 7 days in the jungle - far too much to write about now. Highlights: white water rafting, mountain biking in the cloud forest, swimming in the river at sunset, zipping across the canopy from platform to platform high above the forest floor, abseiling, seeing a sloth, 7 giant otters, caimans, 5 species of monkeys, turtles, capybara, possum, macaws, herons, kingfisher, a fresh puma footprint, rescuing a red howler monkey from the Manu river, playing pool with a talking parrot, drinking pisco sour in our lodge while playing jungle games, cards and a dice game taught to us by three lovely French guys, taking it in turns to share my room with 3 really cool girls from New Zealand and England, narrowly avoiding a 2.5m branch an angry monkey hurled at our heads and
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