Shayna´s Amazon Highlights

Hi everyone! It´s Shayna. I will be sharing some of my highlights from the Amazon. One of my favorite activities was the night walk. I already posted some pictures from that. We saw so many interesting bugs and animals. We saw maybe 15 different kinds of spiders, including tarantulas. That was pretty cool (and a little scary.)That picture of the frog was from that walk. I really couldn´t believe our native guide. He had amazing eyes. He could find things in the dark that I couldn´t find even if he pointed a laser right on it while our naturalist guide showed us exactly which plant it was on. Yes, that actually happened. Another part that I really enjoyed was the butterfly house. That was the english translation. I don´t remember what it was actually called. It was a very large enclosure with many, many different types of butterflies. They also had cacoons and caterpillars. One butterfly even landed on Rebecca´s hat! We went there twice. The second time, one of the people that took care of the house showed us a butterfly called the owl eyed butterfly. It was incredile. If you caught it and covered the top part of the butterfly, it looked like and owl head. If you covered the bottom part, it looked like a snake head. It was an amazing adaptation. The next part that I will write about was definitely a highlight. I wouldn´t say it was fun though. Rebecca already talked about the wooden tower. The afternoon activity that day was the metal towers. Yes you read that right. There wasn´t just one tower, there were three. They were connected by two very long flexi bridges. It was called the canopy walkway. The lodge built three metal towers in the canopy connected by two rope type bridges. The bridges were only connected to the ground by ropes and they shook a little bit as we walked. They were over 130 feet in the air. I have some pictures that I will post later.Once we crossed both bridges, (AAAHHH) we did some birdwatching from tower #3. We saw some amazing birds including toucans. When we finsihed birdwatching, we learned that we had to turn around and walk back across the two bridges (AAAHHHH again) That time was a lot more scary. I´m not sure why. Probably because the bridges were shaking a little bit more. That was quite an experience! Also I forgot to add that our guide, Daniel told us that the guides often go up to the tower to make calls. I thought that he meant bird calls but then realized that these towers were the only places with cell reception. I find that a lot of work just to make a phone call. More pictures to come! Until next post, Shayna