Our Jungle Adventure

We have been in the jungle - the Amazon basin - for a couple of weeks. We spent 4 days in a lodge set on a lake in the Cuyabeno Reserve, 2 hours by motorised canoe from the end of the road, which was great. We also explored an area south of here from a village called Misahualli, also at the end of the road!

We saw loads of animals, insects and amazing birds in the wild and also some more that we hadn't seen in an animal rescue centre. Dee's favourites were the Tapir, Toucans and the Orupendula (bird) who's call sounds like a drop of water. Phil liked the spiders!

See the list after the photos of what we have seen.....

Swimming in the warm Laguna Grande, near our lodge.

We visited the native Siona tribe where we were shown how to make bread from Yucca and met their Shaman, who explained about his work - and let Phil have a go with a blow pipe.

From Misahualli we rode to Puerto Barantilla, (just one house beside the river), where we took a canoe to an animal rescue centre.

A mostly very wet ride out of the jungle, more landslides, raging rivers and waterfalls to ride under!

AR: seen in the animal rescue centre, the rest we saw in the wild

Three and Two toed Sloth
Monkeys including Capuchin, Squirrel, Monk Saki, Spider, Wooly
Tayra (dog sized mammal from weazel family)
Puma AR
Ocelot AR
Tapir AR
Caiman
Pink River Dolphin
Snakes including Anaconda, Boa & Viper
Bats
Spiders including Banana, Wolf, Tarantula
Butterflies including the beautiful Blue Morpho
Birds, loads of amazing colourful birds including Amazon Parrot, Macaws, Toucans, Vultures, Kingfishers, Flycatchers, Weaverbirds, Hummingbirds, Greater Ani, Parakeets, Howatzin, Herons plus lots of other brightly coloured birds that we don't know the names of!