Here is where we stayed: http://www.ecoamazonia.com.pe/. There are 8 in my group, all Canadian apart from one American. All very nice and our tour guide is awesome.
I'm uploading pics as I type and hope I can post a few on here at the end as pictures are better than words, but here I go anyway:
The first thing to say is that we arrived during a cold spell!! Can you believe it?! The day before it had been 30 degrees and 100% humidity but it must have dropped to about 16 degrees on our day and no humidity. Very overcast. In a way maybe it was good. It's incredibly rare apparently, but all the staff were saying how wonderful it was to be able to move around without sweating and to sleep well at night. So our treks were fine, not that difficult, and we were even a little cold at times! I am sad I missed out on the steamy jungle excperience though...
So far we have been up at 5 or 6 am every day, it's a bit difficult for me!
Anyway, the first day we went out to Monkey island, they have a reserve for rescued monkreys that are too used to humans to be released back into the wild. Got some amazing film from that, they come pretty close. There were spider monkeys, capuchins and howlers I think.
Next day we had a 4 hour trek in the morning when we went right into the jungle. We saw lots of instects, including a tarantula!! Lots of amazing trees and plants as well, our guide was great. In the afternoon we went to a lagoon and saw a caiman that was 1.5m long.
The lodge was great and the food as well. I'm sharing with the American girl and she is nice as well.
I'm also trying to upload some videos I took, I hope they work...
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