Hey I Heard You Were a Wild One

So our third day began early around 5:30 so we could go look for pink dolphins again and see some birds. While it was great we were all so tired to throughly enjoy it. After breakfast we went on a long excursion into the primary jungle. We had to take a boat down another smaller river and then hiked into the wild. We parked our boat at a friend of sergios and got to feed their chickens and ducks. They had one type of chicken that look like a balding baby turkey, it was cute in a really ugly way. Then we started into the jungle. It was crazy in there we treked through swamp, rubbed termites on our skin as bug repellent,  use berries as war paint, saw wild monkeys, and learned about plants in the rainforest. It was awesome.

  So before I write the next part you need to know that my goal of the amazon was to see a sloth, which we saw at the monkey reserve, but I wanted to see one up close. On our way back to our lodge we walked the typical route through town. Suddenly Lauren looks to our right and goes "is that a sloth?!". Sure enough there were two sloths in the window of a womans house and she let us hold them!!! I was beyond estatic you will see when we post the pictures. Ahh it was perfect. Mike and Harry were leaving today and it was sad to say bye to them. We spent almost 6 days with them, we loved our Germans.

That evening after they left we took a boat across the Amazon to a small village. We got to play volleyball and soccer with the kids there which was a lot of fun, they were adorable. The only bad thing is about this time I started getting a really bad headache which I associated with my doxycyline malaria pills and my over exposure to the sun. Doxy makes you super sun sensitive. After that I just felt really sick, barely ate any dinner, and went to bed early. I am writing this from the Iquitos aiport the next day and I feel somewhat better. Basically I am ready to be out of the Amazonian sun. There was no relief there. You were hot during the day and hot at night. This morning we went to a different part of the primary Amazon jungle. This was your typical rainforest with huge trees and vines everywhere. We went and saw the biggest tree in the area and it lived up to its name. We also found a vine we could swing on and became Janes of the jungle.

 All in all our trip to the Amazon was perfect we did everything we could have imagined and met some amazing people. Besides the sickness and the bug bites =) We are leaving our Amazonian Venice and we head back to lima tonight and are staying in our stop over hostel before flying to cusco on the 22nd. Machu Picchu here we come!