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An early start today and our wildlife encounters start immediately. There's a rather large bat swooping around in the confined space of our small bedroom which explaines the "mouse" dropping we found on our bed earlier!. The bat disappears in to the rafters before we get a chance to shoo it out the door.
We meet up with Castor just as the sun is rising at 05:30, to go on a three hour trip in his open canoe through the jungle canals and back waters. There are only two of us with Castor and it is very quiet as we glide slowly through the trees with only the calls of the jungle birds and animals. We see spider and howler monkeys, sloths, otters, cayman, river turtles and numerous birds. All very hard to spot hence the benefit of an expert guide. Our three hours pass by in a flash and before we know it we are heading back to the village so we step ashore and head off to find somewhere to eat.
After our late breakfast, we take a walk through the jungle where we spot toucans monkeys and numerous lizards. Later in the day while chilling on the balcony, a couple of toucans land in the nearby trees.
In this National Park alone there are, 442 species of birds, 138 animal species and 118 different types of reptiles.
In the early 1900s, American funded logging companies operated in the jungles here and remnants of the massive rusting hulks of winches and engines lie abandoned in the village. The giant almond trees also know as iron trees survived the loggers attempts to cut them down as the wood was too hard for the saw blades to cope with. The flowers and fruit from these trees is a major food source for many of the birds and monkeys.
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