Day two in the Amazon started out with a little morning paddle ride for some bird watching...
this one's the lodge buddy...
...now meet my pet rat Alfonso...
...he thinks he's a dog...but really he looks like a cross between a beaver and a gopher ...but no, he's actually a rat!...
...he's only a year old....and will get to be five times this size...
...he fell asleep on my feet when I was petting him...
...when I stopped petting him he tryied to climb in my lap for more...
...So I read my book and took a nap with him in the hammock...
...and he let out a big huff and relaxed into my arms...and we fell asleep until Danny came and got us for lunch...I wanted to stay in that hammock with him all day...
...There is a group staying here that is helping to build a school and medical building for a village close by, one of the girls did this watercolor of the hammock dock, so I snapped a shot of it...
...edible fruit...tastes like a really sour lemon...
...fresh morning vines...
...butterfly in cognito....
....there's those mosquito's again...
...I'm building us a house with my design skills...
...What a great shelter...if done the right way, these thatched palm roofs actually last 80 years...
...this tree sap is highly toxic...they give it to babies with stomach and intestine infections after it's sat out for 3 days and cured...they make a concoction that they feed them to purge the parasites...it's nasty stuff though, but for some reason more toxic in adults...
...Jane and Tarzan...
...beautiful orchid tree...
...this tree is 300 years old...
...wild boars smiling for the camera...
...Danny snacking on some wild ginger......Walter would say we could actually eat something or touch something, after every ten times he would say that's toxic, don't touch that, or that animal is extremely poisonous...
...he would point to something or pluck it off a tree and ask us if we wanted to try this fruit or plant and Danny and I would look at him like he was nuts...
...but we tried it anyway...
...but we tried it anyway...
...went to this village to hang out with true villagers...it was surreal...this is the chief...he's lived here for 14 years...opening up his village to tourists so they can see their life...not any of the other 20 little village communities that still remain living this way are safe to visit...some are cannibals or will kill you for being in their jungle......this guy was very nice...
they invited us to dance...
...and Danny got a great companion...
...we danced around in circles...
...and they welcomed us with painting our faces...
...Our new tribe...
they invited us to dance...
...and Danny got a great companion...
...we danced around in circles...
...and they welcomed us with painting our faces...
...Our new tribe......I played back the video for all of them and they all circled around me amazed...wish we had a picture of that...they thought it was the coolest thing they'd ever seen...
...We danced our way outside and around the poles...
...the man took my arm and was spinning me around...I was so much bigger than him it was funny...
...they dance faster and faster...
...boobs flopping and all...
...then we blew darts...
...and since we wore the ceremonial headdress when we blew darts, we traded hats...
...Danny in true villager form...
...Plastic...Our People really are everywhere...
...Walter, blowing darts...
...My shot was right on the head, Danny's is on the chin...
...Happy little villagers, hope this berry paint comes off...
...back from the village...relaxing in the room, Danny is in the shower so I took one last picture, before I washed it all off...
...The comida was interesting...
...We danced our way outside and around the poles...
...the man took my arm and was spinning me around...I was so much bigger than him it was funny...
...they dance faster and faster......boobs flopping and all...
...then we blew darts...
...and since we wore the ceremonial headdress when we blew darts, we traded hats...
...Danny in true villager form...
...Plastic...Our People really are everywhere...
...Walter, blowing darts...
...My shot was right on the head, Danny's is on the chin...
...Happy little villagers, hope this berry paint comes off...
...back from the village...relaxing in the room, Danny is in the shower so I took one last picture, before I washed it all off...
...The comida was interesting......beans, rice, carrot, bananas, carne with green beans and onions...and some wierd fruit...
...after lunch it was off for a paddle down one of the back waters of the jungle...
...huge bromelaides everywhere...
...a little house along one of the side streams...
...Plastic through the Amazon...in search of anaconda...
...looking up through the canopy...
...Plastic adventures....
...A little Firehouse tour...
...Walter was wacking his way through th vines as we passed through narrow passages and barely grazing limbs...
...back at the dock...
...after lunch it was off for a paddle down one of the back waters of the jungle...
...huge bromelaides everywhere...
...a little house along one of the side streams...
...Plastic through the Amazon...in search of anaconda...
...looking up through the canopy...
...Plastic adventures....
...A little Firehouse tour...
...Walter was wacking his way through th vines as we passed through narrow passages and barely grazing limbs...
...We finished up or night in the bar...afterall we are on vacation...every place here has there own beer...if you go to Iquitos you get Iquitena of course...
...the Amazon beer of choice...
...met some people in the bar before dinner, got a couple more bug bites just for good measure, then it was off to bed...the rain was coming down hard and it was music to my ears tonight...
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