The Rainforest

After 4 days in the rainforest, I am feeling a little wiped.  It was abslutly unreal, save for one night that I spent puking my guts up in the river.  No one else got sick, so I didn´t know what caused it, but it meant I slept until 3pm once I felt better.

But onto the good stuff.  That afternoon I got to swim with pink amazon river dolphins.  And when I say swim, I mean it was letting us touch it, pet it and even sit on it.  We swam with it for over an hour before it just got pissed off and started biting.

We also went hunting for alligator at night and saw a mother with her babies.  There were at least 10 of them, though the guide said there could be as many as thirty.  They were only a few inches long, and were all curled up in the roots of a tree.  Only 6 or so of them would survive the next 30 days until they could live on thier own.

There were also tons of birds and monkies.  We saw these cute little monkies called squirell monkies that were super unafraid and climed all over the boat, as well as howler monkies, which had a super loud cry and a spider monkey.  There were too many birds to count, including one type of cormorant called a snake bird because it had a super long neck.  There were all osrts of bugs and I got so chowed by mosquitoes one night that I woke up looking like I had small pox.

The heat was the one thing that really bothered me.  It was super humid and I have been sweating non-stop since I got out of the plane.  But tomorrow we go back to La Paz and cooler weather.  Not to mention clean clothes.