Days 141-145. The AMAZON. How I saved my grandma's life

The Amazon is completely different to home. At home, humans are the top of the food chain, and eat everything. Whilst here, everything wants to eat you. Spiders are bigger than your hand, snakes longer a car, and mini humans with tails swinging in the trees.

Another thing that is different is the airport. We got through check in and security, but then, it was revealed that the flight was delayed 5 hours. Great.

My devices were flat, and I had no books, so I just had to sit there and think like they did in the olden days.

We landed in Coca, and got on a boat for 3 hours to Sacha Lodge, in the Ecuadorian Amazon.

Now, like Ray Caye, we did a lot at Sacha Lodge, so I will just talk about the highlights.

We arrived and got settled into life in the jungle. When night fell, we went to try to spot some insects.

We saw crickets, geckos, frogs, spiders, and a tarantula!

We kicked off the next morning with a canoe trip through the jungle, which we continued to do throughout our stay.

We wanted to see animals, and some of the wildlife I wanted to view included:

Ant eater (our guide had seen 2 in his 12 years there)

slothes (our guide sees one every few months)

Anaconda (our guide sees 1-2 a week)

Armadillos (seen 2)

capybaras (seen 2)

axolotls (seen 1)

monkeys (seen lots and lots clearly)

and the "elusive jaguars"

Wow, jaguars are super rare. The guides have seen tracks, and spotted one on the camera, and only one person has seen one in the 30 years of Sacha Lodge being open.

Now, the animals we did see were:

piranhas (caught them fishing!)

black agooty

cayman

iguanas

baby anacondas

toucans

monkeys

tarantulas

we saw many many birds too.

We went on many canoe rides to see the animals. We saw this funny monkey trying to scare us aware but whacking a branch.

Onto the bit where I saved my grandmas' life.

We were walking back from dinner, and I was walking ahead of my grandma, and my grandma had her gand on the railing. Then, I spotted a leg, and I thought it was a wolf spider, but it was a tarantula on the railing, right where my grandma was about to put her hand!

On our last day, we woke up early and rode 20 minutes downstream to this huge flock of parrots. Then, we went half an hour up stream to this village via a group of 10 monkeys, including a baby and kid.

At the village, we ate traditional food, did blow gun practice, and dad even ate a live grub!

On the final day, we woke up at about 3am, and caught the canoe, boat, plan and bus back to Quito, where we stayed the night (luckily there were no delays this time).