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Baby Sloth - only 4-6 years old - they live to up to 40 years.

August 27th 2014
'It's just you and the creatures now', said Juan Carlos as he waved goodbye. The air was loaded with sound. We could see nothing, but knew that life was all around us. We were at the last outpost on the Yanayacu de Yacapana River, at the start of our Amazon Refuge adventure. Beyond lay only jungle and watery veins of the Amazon. We plunged right in. A three-hour forest walk. Dense vegetation, vin ... read more

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saritrace

I've always had wanderlust. Don't know where it comes from. When I was 26 I bought a 'round the world' ticket and flew off to New York. I thought after a year travelling I would have 'been there, seen it, done it' and it would be out of my system. Of course it didn't work like that. I travelled for two years and only went home when the money ran out. Then life took over for a few years, and travelling was confined to month long trips around Christmas, and shorter city breaks. In 2009 Jim retired. Not to be outdone I also gave up work - at least for the forseeable future. We gave our flat in... full info

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9th September 2014

taracloud
Tara Cloud

The wild jungle, ""often uncomfortable, but always beautiful."
What a great adventure you've painted with your magic words. Great photos, but really it's your amazing writing that brings this all alive; the tiny owl monkeys "huge eyes peeping worriedly beneath white brows"--I recognized the photo immediately. So glad you got to be intimate with that illusive sloth you've been seeking. The jungle lodge seemed massively expensive (to me), but oh, so worth it. Glad you had a fab time!

9th September 2014

saritrace
tracey

You're right Tara, it was hugely expensive, but a snip compared to some of the others I could find, and it was so worth it. Blew a huge whole in our budget though - there will be a blog soon about the 'poor man's Galapagos' as we couldn't afford the real thing - hopefully, that's for another trip. And holding that sloth was worth a million dollars!!!

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