Day 13

The day started with packing our stuff in the tent, and getting ready to go back into the moskito swarm outside. Maxi made a fire again, which went easier than yesterday. He got some water from the river and cooked us some eggs. He also had bread an orange for us. He also made us some tea, but it was also from the water of the river, and it didn't cook for very long, so we did not drink it in the end. We packed up the camp and went back into the boat. When we arrived at the house of some family of maxi, eike bought a cold beer from them. We did not know what time it was, but it must have been around 9:30 🤭 then we walked for some 30 minutes or so, and got a mototaxi to the lodge from the night before. There we had some hours to chill and then it was lunch time. After lunch we had to take our stuff again, because we are not sleeping in the lodge tonight either! James from the US is joining us today. We went on a nice 1 hour walk to our next sleeping place, which was a traditional house in the middle of nowhere. On the way we saw a snake and a lot of skull monkeys/squirl monkeys/mr. Nilsson monkeys ❤️ 20 minutes after we arrived we took a rowboat and rowed a while in anaconda territory, but we didn't have the luck to see one. We landed the boat and went further by foot. No anaconda here either, but a nice tarantula ❤️ We arrived at a watch tower where you could see birds, but me (nina) only went up the first floor (the tower looked not stable at all, because something ate the beams quite a bit 😬). Eike went to the top and saw a very special bird that only lives in this specific swamp. He showed it later to nina an then we saw some more mr. Nilsson monkeys and one with a baby. We went back  to the boat and rowed back to our sleeping place. Our dinner today was tomato and cucumber salad and a not so tasty mandarin. Then it was dark and went on a hike. We did not see any big animals, but many insects. Highlights were a giant spider, and the very best was the mantis walking stick ❤️❤️ sadly the way was too overgrown to make a path with the machete, so we had to go back. Still no anaconda. The sky over our house was clear from trees, and the sky was clear from clouds, so for the first time we saw the stars of the amazon 😱 it was so beatiful! So many stars! We are now in our beds, which are super thin matresses on a wooden floor and each has their own little moskito net. The house is build on poles and has no real walls. The walls are moskito nets. Everything is as loud as yesterday. Nina hopes she can sleep today. It started heavily raining around 03:00. It is even louder than the animals...But it was an "upgrade " to the day before. No tree roots in our backs this time 🤭Read more