Today we only had a half day at the lodge because we had to
get back to Iquitos to catch our flight tonight. We still got to go on a longer
morning excursion after breakfast. Since we didn’t get to see many pink dolphins
the first time we went looking for them, went out to the main river to see if
we could find more today and we did! There were a lot more today and they got
pretty close to our boat. Then we went on jungle hike on another trail. On this
hike, the guide told us a lot about the vegetation and which plants are used
for medicinal use, food, building materials and even poison by the local
people.
After our morning excursion, we packed up our stuff, had
lunch, said good-by to our tree house and then made the journey back to Iquitos. When we got back to Iquitos we
had a little time before of flight, so we decided to check out the zoo to see
how many of the animals we had seen in the wild. We had seen many of the
animals. Lucky we never ran into a viper, anaconda, puma or jaguar in the wild
though! Our guide has seen all of these animals in the jungle. The zoo was a
little sad though because many of the animals were in small cages and I felt
bad that they were so close to their natural environment, but locked up. Our
trip to the jungle was an amazing, amazing experience and I am so glad we went,
but 4 days was a good amount of time to be there.
Tonight we catch a flight to Lima and then a red eye to Ft.
Lauderdale and then we get a flight back to Denver tomorrow. I can’t believe
the trip is over. In a sense it feels like everything we did in Colombia was so
long ago, but it also feels like the trip went by super fast. It was truly a trip of a lifetime though!
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