$27.50 gets you...

An amazing day-long adventure in the Amazon...

Lisa and I met up with our guide, Pedro, who walked us to a small house behind the giant communications antenna. Of course, we were wondering what the heck was going to happen next…and we were treated to an AMAZING local breakfast. Imagine chickens running around = fresh eggs, hot chocolate ground from fresh cacao trees in the yard, plantains (delicious!), and fresh tropical fruit.

This is freshly ground chocolate. YUM!

After the hospitality of our new friends and breakfast, we headed off for our first Amazon adventure…PINK DOLPHINS. We hopped in a very very small canoe made out of a cut down jungle tree, and off we went. The first part of the adventure was navigating our small canoe across the Amazon and into the submerged jungle (this time of year the waters are literally 30 feet higher than normal because of the rainy season). Just imagine slowly paddling through the jungle with branches overhanging, fallen trees, and spiders jumping on the boat because we`re inside the swampy jungle.  Supposedly this is where the anacondas live, but we didn't see any, thank god because they are up to 45 feet long...and they really like to cuddle!

 

The submerged jungle

The normal jungle

 We finally made it out of the jungle and into a huge open lagoon.  After picking off the branches and spiders from our clothes, Pedro starting making some odd dolphin call and literally 3 minutes later we had both pink and gray dolphins swimming around us.  They are a little prehistoric looking, but are incredibly smart and so interested in people!  After I almost tipped the boat over because I was too giddy with excitement, Pedro told us that we could SWIM with the dolphins. We thought about it for about 2 seconds (there are piranhas in the water...) and then convinced Pedro to jump in first... and off we went!!!  We could see the bubbles of them all around us and there were hundreds of dolphins everywhere.  I just wish the water was clear so I could have seen them swimming.  So amazing!! 

(Okay, we don`t have the good camera anymore so you may have to zoom in to see them...)

After our dolphin high we tried to do a little piranha fishing, with no luck and then started our journey back to Puerto Narino. We were greeted at the dock with a fresh fish lunch & of course, rice and beans :)

So what does $27.50 get you back home??