Six Days in the Amazon

In the end of November to the beginning of December almost all the exchange students in our district plus those from Cucuta's district (including my Minnesota girls Alex and Lena!) came together in the Amazon Rain Forest for six days of sweaty, humid, mosquito-filled adventure. It was a while ago (I've been lazy, busy and sick, but mostly lazy) but I'm finally getting around to writing about it.

Right after arriving in the airport, with some new kids from Cucuta.

On the airplane Morgan and I overheard English but couldn't figure out the accent, turns out they were Greek-Australian and Italian-Australian, and we chatted the whole flight. They were spending the year traveling around South America, they had some pretty great stories.

The sunsets were amazing, this is from the first night on the way to our hotel. We had to walk about three hours through the jungle after an hour in boat to get there, but it was worth it.

The first day we climbed 35 meters up a tree, it was an amazing view.

And then ziplined to another tree!

 

Can't live without my peanut butter!

We spent at least a few hours every day on these boats, it's how we traveled. One day it was five hours on the boat, we learned to get pretty comfortable.

The blue dye is from a fruit and lasted about 10 days, I tried to have a hand print done on my neck but it didn't work out too well, rats.

All the Americans together!

One morning I woke up about an hour before anyone else and played with the owner's son, who got attached  to me and spent the whole day with me. It was nice being able to play with little kids again, I don't have enough in my life here, none really.

 

In the Chocolate House in Brasil, in all we were in three countries, we spent one night in Peru and took a taxi to dinner in Brasil from Colombia.

It was a crazy week but I would do it again in a heartbeat, great group of kids and the best tour guide in Colombia, gracias Fercho y Kuko!