We woke up in our jungle hut early this morning; in fact, we didn’t really sleep all that well. Although the room was kept at a lovely cool temperature with the air-conditioning, the downside was that it was very noisy. At some point during the night Trevor turned it off, and the silence was golden. …
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Ecopark Excitement (part 2)
At 3.00pm we all gathered in reception, where Prakash, our guide, was waiting to take us to the boat. We walked along the dirt track, the duckboards and the planks of wood until we were once more at the landing dock. This time it was a much bigger boat, with a lower and upper deck. …
Ecopark Excitement (part 1)
It was with anticipation and excitement that we woke up this morning, knowing that we were going to disembark the Braemar and foray into the Amazon jungle, where we would be staying overnight in the Amazon Ecopark Lodge. The ship had already docked in Manaus, the capital of Amazonia, and she was not due to…