Jungle walk

Today, we went for a walk in the jungle, 17,000 steps, or about 12km. Not that much, but at 30C and more than 85% humidity, it takes a lot more effort than normal.

I remember in Edinburgh and London, visiting the Botanic Gardens, and in Zürich the impressive new rainforest. But today our 4 hour walk we must have covered 100 times the area of those combined, and afterwards I had a look and Brazil is 200x the size of Switzerland, something when you try to fathom the size of the rainforest, that I can't quite get my head around.

We saw innumerable types of trees, many with exotic fruits and flowers. We saw monkeys springing across the tree tops and colourful birds and lizards, but maybe the most fascinating is the incredible variety of ants and the different ways that they live. They are in the ground, in anthills, in tree settlements that look like beehives, and they build covered walkways across paths.Read more