¨You had to be there!¨
It´s one thing to see the world´s deadliest insect on Animal Planet. It´s a whole different world when it´a foot away from your face.
Tarantulas. Tarantula-eating wasps. Ants the size of small mammals. The world´s most painful insect stings. The world´s most poisonous spider (which happens to be the size of a tarantula and is ¨extremely aggresive¨)
It is all there, and it´s not even hard to find. 6 nights in the jungle was a crazy experience.
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| Welcome to the jungle. |
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| Hello Wandering Spider - the size of your hand and extremely, extremely poisonous. |
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| Going to step away from the Don for a few days. It´s not conspicuous here. At all. |
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| Getting ready to hop on a boat for the cruise upriver. |
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| Cruising through the jungle. It´s like the Venice of rainforests. |
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| Supply boat heading upriver. |
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| View off the bow. |
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| This guy is writing a book on the Tambopata Natural Reserve, our destination. His camera gear was cooler than mine, by a big margin. |
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| Water and jungle. |
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| The kitchen at a ranger checkpoint. |
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| Ranger checkpoint... |
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| Accomodations - make sure the mosquito net is tight! Insects and bats own the place. |
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| Electricity is sporadic (solar panels and a generator provide power from 530 - 9), so kerosene lamps do the rest at night. |
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| Sunrise over the Amazon. |
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| So humid your clothes actually get wetter overnight... and forget about drying anything unless its out in the sunshine. |
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| Ranger life. |
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| Heading further upriver... sediment gives the river that dark orange hue. |
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| The jungle is trying to own this shack. It will win. |
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| How the locals get around. |
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| More sunrise... its brief this close to the equator. No more 3 hour sunsets like I had down in Patagonia. |
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| The jungle is just everywhere. It is kind of spooky, and really easy to get lost. Very happy to have a guide. |
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| Cruising a small lake in the jungle. |
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| Our leader. |
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