Here I am trying to figure out the best way to lap some of these suckers in my mouth.
We visited this Cofan Shaman, who gave us a tour of his garden of medicinal plants.
Mirjam, who had tons of bites on her elbow asked the Shaman for something to help cure the itch. The Shaman therefore gave her a good whip of those thorny leaves. I don't think she was impressed.
The Shaman also performed a cleansing ceremony for us.
Our canoe driver with a beautiful primary rainforest backdrop.
Here's a series of rainforest shots...
... and the innundated forest near the Cuyabeno Lagoon.
The accomodations for the last two nights, were in these beautiful lodges. The boardwalk was intimidating at times, but was necessary because in the peak rain season, the water goes all the way up to one inch below the boardwalk.
Our hut. Hmmm, comfy.
A happy group. We were well fed with typical meals during the trip (rice and meat).
We even had time for a good game of soccer (north american dialect, football for you non-north american types).
After a good muddy walk along the rainforest trails, our guides made us nice camouflage headpieces. Marc, yours is a little too low I think.
Some folks put these headpieces to other goofy uses.
Lots of vines in the rainforest as well.
Some of them were strong enough too swing off of the ground...
...others actually had water you could drink from.
We went on a night walk... saw lots of scary spiders and centipedes. And I found this brightly coloured caterpillar which was about two centimeter in its diameter.
We went cayman catching at night as well. Just shined our flashlight along the river banks to look for the big glowing orange eyes. Our guide, Marco, caught one with his bare hands of the edge of the canoe.
Yes... someone dared to put this baby tarantula on her hand and it crawled quickly up to the back of her neck. (Shivers)
