Check out Karl´s Flickr page, the link is to the right...
he has lots and lots of good pics
check out his blog too. He´ll be sticking with us through Bolivia, but after that its up in the air.
Saturday, February 17, 2007
Friday, February 16, 2007
Sweat, monkeys and Pirhana
Scratch the plan to be in the Jungle for one month. Turns out we called it quits a bit early, well...halfway through to be exact. I think the best way of describing the situation is this...
The jungle is a lot like watching a really REALLY good movie, but sitting in a terribly uncomfortable chair. A chair where you are constantly sweating, covered in bug bites, going to bed at 8 and waking up at 4 to do 5 hour hikes and kind of bored. To elaborate a bit further, temperatures were about 37 everyday and about 90 percent humidity and didnt get much cooler at night. Clothes were thus incredibly gross because you sweat through them in about 10 minutes. Bugs were intense when in the jungle, hundreds of bites all over. I know at home its rather cold right now, and this may sound very nice but its really just trading one uncomfort for another.
But to stop complaining, the jungle was incredible. I loved it. It really was a hard choice to leave early. Its kind of hard to explain, because there really is so much you are surrounded in all the time...the flora and fauna were incredible, though the weather was uncomfortable it was fun at times. When it rained it felt like being in the shower and the river was fun to swim in, aside from the ´´little cat fish´´ that will swim up your urine stream if you pee in the water...a rather good deterant. Despite the fact pirhana were common in the river, we were all still somehow more scared of these apparent fish. Pirhana, by the way, is delicious. we went fishing (classic stick and a line style) and caught about 10 pirhana in about an hour and a half. there we a lot.
Aside from the jungle, the frontier town of Puerto Maldonado is rather interesting itself. The first night back we managed to celebrate being back in civilization properly by indulging in a ridiculous amount of pizza and singing kareoke to some rather unimpressed peruvians.
Anyways, the pictures below are mostly from Puerto Maldonado, the really good pictures are by Karl and Ill post some soon, and hell have them on his site too. To give an idea of how hot it is there, check out my shirt. Thats just from sitting in the restaurant....well, then singing and dancing and drinking. But I was like that before going out!.....its really hot there.
Anyways, back in Cusco now but leaving to Copocabana, Bolivia tomorrow night.
The jungle is a lot like watching a really REALLY good movie, but sitting in a terribly uncomfortable chair. A chair where you are constantly sweating, covered in bug bites, going to bed at 8 and waking up at 4 to do 5 hour hikes and kind of bored. To elaborate a bit further, temperatures were about 37 everyday and about 90 percent humidity and didnt get much cooler at night. Clothes were thus incredibly gross because you sweat through them in about 10 minutes. Bugs were intense when in the jungle, hundreds of bites all over. I know at home its rather cold right now, and this may sound very nice but its really just trading one uncomfort for another.
But to stop complaining, the jungle was incredible. I loved it. It really was a hard choice to leave early. Its kind of hard to explain, because there really is so much you are surrounded in all the time...the flora and fauna were incredible, though the weather was uncomfortable it was fun at times. When it rained it felt like being in the shower and the river was fun to swim in, aside from the ´´little cat fish´´ that will swim up your urine stream if you pee in the water...a rather good deterant. Despite the fact pirhana were common in the river, we were all still somehow more scared of these apparent fish. Pirhana, by the way, is delicious. we went fishing (classic stick and a line style) and caught about 10 pirhana in about an hour and a half. there we a lot.
Aside from the jungle, the frontier town of Puerto Maldonado is rather interesting itself. The first night back we managed to celebrate being back in civilization properly by indulging in a ridiculous amount of pizza and singing kareoke to some rather unimpressed peruvians.
Anyways, the pictures below are mostly from Puerto Maldonado, the really good pictures are by Karl and Ill post some soon, and hell have them on his site too. To give an idea of how hot it is there, check out my shirt. Thats just from sitting in the restaurant....well, then singing and dancing and drinking. But I was like that before going out!.....its really hot there.
Anyways, back in Cusco now but leaving to Copocabana, Bolivia tomorrow night.
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