Now back from the Amazon

Saturday

Off to the Amazon. After a flight, took a motorised canoe upstream for three hours to a wilderness lodge made completely out of wood. Only 2 hrs electricity each day. Kerosene lamps and candles for light. Mosquito nets at night in 4 poster beds. Open windows to the rainforest. Bar and spa. Very romantic.

Sunday

Being a rainforest, thats what it did. So they cancelled all 6am activities and let us lie in bed listening to the rain in the forest. Sigh. Stopped raining after lunch so we did a rainforest walk and canoe across the lake. Wasn't as easy as it sounded as the canoe had filled up completely with the rain overnight and had to be bailed out which is no mean feat. Then they told us to sit still as the main inhabitants of the lake were alligators, pirhanas and anacondas. We complied.

Monday

Up at 5am (they are making a habit of it), and left at 6 to go by boat back downstream, in the bus along the forest tracks back to the airport for the return flight. Flight to Cuzco, where we dropped off laundry and went for a tour of the old city. Then we met with our trek guide and organised hire of sleeping bags and so on.