Jungle adventure

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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 making it out of the jungle without getting bitten by a snake!

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Photos

Funerary tours
they used to bury people here and the bodies would be preserved by the cold wind on the mountain ridge. The Spanish are believed to have taken the gold and other riches buried here

dancers
each statue represents a group of people that parade through the town once a year

first lunch
stopped off on the first day for a lovely lunch in the local disco!

waterfall
we actually drove through the cascades

biking in the cloud forest
Juliet, Jennifer, Chrissy

motor boat
On our way to Erika lodge, day two. We´d just finished mountain biking for 3 hours and 1.5 hours of white water rafting

Canopy tour
was so scared to begin with, but the view of the jungle as you zipped across on a stretch of rope was something else

Jodie
completely exhilarated after overcoming a fear of heights

a ´walking tree ´
no main trunk reaches the floor - the tree stands on lots of roots and can grow more allowing it to 'move' to a better location if it needs to

Comments

[Kate]

Nooooooooooooooooooo!! Damn you! Bring me back a monkey!

[anonymous]

aw! He looks so cool! That must have been amazing. Is his nose funnyk, or is that just the angle?