Sat 1st Nov
Got up really early for a long walk through the jungle. Last night while looking at the map the guide was asking did we want to do the 5km or 71/2kmwalk. Jim suggested we did both cause instead of doing a trek back the same route it made sense just to do an extra 21/2km roundwalk.
Everyone agreed.... However the 71/2km wak is not done very often so is not so much of a trail. Off we set with our guide with Robin close behind cause he had never seen such a big machete...and did not want to be far from it. We saw monkeys and big big butterflies straight away. Then Robin started screaming... He had been bitten and because we did not know by what we stood still looking for whatever it was that had stung him. Big big mistake. When a wasp stings you you have to run away to a safer place then sort it out.. Because the 71/2km walk is not used often the wasps make their nests near or on the path so when we disburbed them they got angry and stung. Anyway Robin was ok and quite brave and we continued walking quickly past the red ants and some people in our group including Jim ate termites (taste minty apparently) Th guide was really good pointing out trees plants and animals then....another wasp nest...We all ran....Most people got stung at least once (me and robin missed them this time..ran fast..)some people got stung more than one and some girls screamed worse than Robin, it was quite comical really. Everyone else getting stung seemed to make Robin braver and hewent to the front to search for the anacondas (I do not think he knew anacondas were snakes)

Jim was very mpressed the way the guide teased the trantulas out of their holes with a piece of stick and I must admit they were verybig very hairy trantulas. Robin kept his distance.

I was impressed by the 'justice tree'. A tree that has ants that sting you living in it. If you tap it or put your hand on it the ants come and bite you. This was an instrument of torture and death for the indigenous people. Scary horrid punishment.

Finished the first 71/2km and went up a hugh tree and saw the rainforest from above. It was like giant umbrellas everywhere, you could not see through them to the forest below, just the blue sky above.

We then went for a ride in a canoe through the swamp. Saw loads of terripins, turtles, butterflies, birds and fish, luckily, no snakes.. Quite scary but our guide was great. Then we started the 5km walk back to the lodge. This trail was a little more obvious than the previous trail and a little easier to walk. We saw a yellow snake (small and scared of us)(thank god= a poisonous millipede, howler monkeys and more ants and trantulas and it was extra fantastic cause we saw no wasps. We were all tired when we got back to the lodge and had a quick wash and lunch (we were all very smelly and hungry.)

We then went out in another boat fishing for piranah. We never caught any though one girl on boat Barbera caught a small catfish but it was loads of fun and very relaxing. Around the lodge before dinner we spotted all sorts of birds and lizzards and .. a rodent.. Robin stayed up late playing cards in the bar with his card gang..