Amazon Night Walk / Cruise

After dark we jumped back on to the boat and sailed back to the jungle for a night time walk. Our guide spotted, and picked up various creatures along the way. The highlights being a number of caymans (of various sizes), a tarantula and a snake.

He brought the snake into the boat as it was apparently non poisonous and only gave harmless small bites if it were to attack. We later learnt that our guide lost his finger and almost his whole arm due to the incorrect identification of a poisonous snake (a viper, the second most dangerous in the entire Amazon) so I'm glad we didn't have this information when the snake was being waved a foot away from our faces.Read more