Day 12

We woke up in the lodge and had breakfast. Toast with omelet and marmalade. Then we went on a walk through some river villages. All buildings have to be build 2 or 3 meters above ground, because from february to june? The water rises in the rivers really really high, 3 to 5 meters. We walked back, packed our stuff and had lunch. After lunch we were supposed to walk to a boat, but it started raining very heavily, so we waited a bit. After the rain we left. We walked through some other villages and saw a blue ara! We walked further to the last house on the river, were the family of our guide maxi lives. So beautiful and peacefully over there. The plants are so green and the river(one of the amazonas side rivers) is totally black, birds are all over the place and making sound. From there we got into a traditional boat, like a kanu, and rode (is it riding a boat? It is not sailing when a boat has no sail, right?) a bit along the river. After a while, when it started raining again, we landed and we made our camp directly in the amazonian rainforest next to the river (the yanayacu) First we made a roof from plastic, and also a floor, and then we put up two iglo tents. We had to make fire to cook our dinner, but all the wood was wet. Maxi went to get some benzin from the little motor of the boat, and tried to light the fire. After 3 tries it finally worked! Maxi brought some chicken and bananas to cook on the fire. After dinner (it was already completly dark and full of mosquitos) we went back on the kanu and explored the river by night. Frog sounds were everywhere but it was impossible to see them, they had too good carmouflage! Eike was really up to see the night creatures, like caimans and anacondas but unfortanally we were unlucky! Nina was a bit scared. But she did very well! After 20minutes we had to turn back to our camp because it was starting to rain. Nina saw, where we camped, 1000's of tiny eyes shine back from her flashlight. She looked a bit closer, and it tuned out to be many many spiders 🤭Then we went to sleep. For nina it was impossible to sleep, because the noise was so loud. Eike did sleep some times, and asked nina some weird questions in his dreams 🤭
We heard a lot of different birds that we did not hear before, and some big monkeys. Just to say, we slept on the ground without isomatte or matraze, no pillow or blanket. Haha. It was though. We are getting old 😛Weiterlesen