And so we began our second major tour in South America, our Amazonia Expeditions tour; 7 nights in the Amazon jungle. It was a solid 3 hour boat ride from Iquitos to arrive at our lodge, which is based on the 2 million hectare Tahuayo Reserve, based on the Tahuayo River, a tributary of the Amazon River. It wasn’t quite the ‘motorised canoe’ we thought we were travelling in, it was simply a speedboat and for that we were grateful or else it would have taken double the time! The Reserve itself has registered over 600 species of birds, a dozen monkey species, caimans, snakes, spiders, butterflies and is also home to the puma, jaguar, giant ant eaters and anaconda. For our 7 nights in the reserve, we had our own personal guide, Weninger, who spent
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