Notice the latest fashion in jungle wear. Long pants tucked into knee high rubber boots, with bucket hats. We pretty much wore the same clothes every day and we were getting pretty stinky by the last day. The jungle was so humid we couldn´t wash our clothes because the clothes would have taken days and days to dry.

I´m not sure if you can see in the picture, but our guide loaned me his machete for the photo. In the picture, we are standing next to a single ficus tree. The branches grow outward, then downward, then back into the ground like a root.

Once or twice a day, we would take a two to three hour hike in the jungle to view wildlife. We would also usually take a boat ride on the river. One night we took a night walk to look for tarantulas (we found two). Another tarantula was hoping to follow us back to civilization... on our last day, we had our bags lined up to be loaded on the boat and a tarantula was hiding on Krista´s bag.