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After leaving ridiculously early, which seems to be turning into a habit, we set off for the jungle. After meeting the others in our group, 3 Italian guys and 3 Spanish women we got into a taxi to the docks and then jumped on a boat.
While on the boat our guide showed us the meeting off the waters between two rivers. One coming from Columbia and the other from Peru. It looked like coke meeting milky tea with the river from Peru being colder but less acidic so it has more animals. Following on through the boat we jumped in a camper can and one final boat taking us through the jungle all the way to our lodge on the edge I the river. With the palm roofs and the wooden huts it felt a long way from home being ever so quiet and peaceful.
We grabbed lunch and then went out dolphin watching where we saw a school of grey dolphins and also a pink dolphin.
After dolphin watching we went back out on our second home (the boat) into the forest piranha fishing. Neither of us were able to catch anything although numerous times having our bait eaten. They were so quick to eat the meat you can't hold that against us. As a boat we caught six piranha which was exciting especially because we caught the most dangerous jungle piranha which is the red bellied piranha. Our guide showed us how sharp his teeth were as he put a small branch between his teeth which the piranha bite through with ease. We stopped off in the river to watch the sunset which was beautiful and took loads of pictures but they don't begin to describe the views and sounds of the animals combined.
After we got back I had a completely different kind of experience which we never expected to have while away. We had our own private room in the lodge and when I went to drop off a towel, there was a Russian girl from the other group was in there. I thought she was going through our things until I looked down to see she was topless and using our room to get changed. I quickly walked out and was even questioning if I had gone into the wrong room. She briefly followed to apologise with a bra on this time but the damage had been done.
Finally before food and with all of our clothes on this time we went out crocodile hunting. Our guide caught a cayman metres away from our lodge but he was only arms length but holding him his strength was apparent especially when he struggled and attempted to get away. We learnt a little and that after they have fully grown the only predators they have are humans.
We had our buffet dinner which was fish so Abigail was ecstatic. Having said that she tried some of the fish before keeping to the rich and beans.
After we watched the night sky where we saw massive bolts of lightning hidden behind clouds which looked like something out of films. It was amazing to see so many storms surrounding us while we had all the stars directly above us.
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