Piranha fishing and Selva sleeping

Disclaimer: we only caught one piranha.

We started the day by taking a small boat down the river and then up into one of the thousands of small streams that cut through the jungle. Our guide Jésus gave us wooden rods and bait to dangle over the side of our boat. Turns out piranha are smarter than us with all of our bait apart from one being successfully snatched off the line.

After this our guide decided that it was time to head into la selva (the jungle). We were given rubber boots and a hammock each which we carried for our three hour hike into the primary forest beyond the town. Jésus told us about the area, gave us fruits to try from trees I had never heard of and always had his shotgun over his shoulder watching for jaguars.

At camp we made dinner and hung our hammocks before going on a night hike deep in the jungle. This was unbelievable. We found crickets, frogs, electric eels, moths and tarantulas. The next morning we woke up at 5am and hiked back to Macedonia.Leer más