Amazon...what?

Giant lilly pads that can only be found in the Amazon. -AAL
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Just imagine walking into a room filled with a billion mosquitos, add 100 degrees, 12 thousand gallons of humidity, and mud lots of mud.  Are you still with me?  Cut that room in half and you now know what every step we took felt like in the jungle.  The Muyana Lodge was wonderful but once you left the confines of the lodge you were fair game for the mosquitos. For our 2nd and 3rd day we had the entire lodge to ourselves.

Mosquitos: I can´t stress enough of how crazy these devil bugs were.  I think that they drink shots of repellant for fun because IT DOES NOT WORK.  We went on a two hour hike through the jungle and they followed us like pestering children.  Don´t think about stopping for even a minute, they attack you with a vengeance for making them fly behind you.  Remember the heat and humidity I mentioned earlier, well you have to wear long pants and long shirts so that the bugs can´t suck all of your blood out of your body.  I even wore a t-shirt wrapped around my head to cover my ears and neck.

This pile of dirt is an enormous ant hill. It begins in front of the log and ends way over there by the two guys standing to the right. -AAL
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Jungle Noise:  I forgot to bring my ear plugs and I paid heavily for that.  I knew there would be noise but I had no idea it would be amplified Bose surround sound movie theater noise.  I just wanted a to turn it off but I could´t; I had to turn on the iPOD to try and tune it out but the animals won of course.

Food:  They prepared a very good spread for us during our stay.  They even fried up the Piranha that we caught, no, I didn´t have any of that.

That is a water snake that almost jumped in our boat. -AAL
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Sleep:  Absolutely none.

Animals: Sloths, spider monkeys, tarantulas, bats, caiman, white faced hawks, piranha, tree rat, 2 snakes,  king fisher, pink dolphin, grey dolphin, tree frog, at least a dozen other species of birds, and a host of insects.