Packed up camp and took the boat further up the river, so we had travelled around 100kms by boat.
When we arrived at the new camp we started our hike up a mountain called Autana Tepoy. It started though rainforest and slowly got steeper and steeper.
I felt great. suprisingly, weve done a lot of sitting around the last few days and eating lots of really greasy fatty food. I had a good pace, quite slow but continuous and beacuse of this I passed everyone and was on my own for a while. I had found it frustrating at first, as there was only one path and space for just one person at a time, so I found people trying to over take me all the time, and it was only when it got steeper and steeper that people had to keep having lots of breaks, but my pace was nice and slow so I didnt need to as much.
When we got to the top before the top (Im sure theres a word for that!), Maurice and I had to wait for someone to come up as we had no water.
The views were amazing. The Amazon stretching out for miles and miles into mist. To be honest, I was a little dubious about how far away we had come. It would be so easy for the company to just take us down the river, round and round and only be 30 mins away from Puerto Ayacocho! but when I saw that view it suddenly dawned on me how far away wed come. What an overwhelming feeling to realise that so high up on a mountain!
The desent was fun, as Im always much faster going down (maybe thats from doing lots of walking in the Lake District, and the excitement about going back to the house for a hot bath and tea was what spurred me on!)so fast in fact that I lost everyone pretty early. About 30 mins down I was deep in thought and suddenly Id lost the path. No direction looked right, started retracing my steps, then down one route back again, just starting to panic (too many wierd animals in the rain forest) when Maurice came up behind me and fightend the life out of me! As soon as I saw him, the path was so clear I couldnt understand wy I was so confused!.
While wed been walikg our hammock had been put up for us which was such a relief because this new camp, despite being so beautiful, was FULL of mosquitos, so we were all able to hide away from them while our guide made us a late lunch. It started raining just after lunch, which made the mossies go away, then night fell at 1900 on the dot, which is mosquito bed time in these parts so we were saved. Maurice has been bitten so much that Im sure if they were there all night there would be nothing left of him. As the sun went down, I lay out on the rocks with the Czechs on the banks of the river, listening to the river run down the rapids.
Dinner was delicious fish that the local Indians had caught for us and traditionally smoked for us in their village, then brought it to us.
I felt great. suprisingly, weve done a lot of sitting around the last few days and eating lots of really greasy fatty food. I had a good pace, quite slow but continuous and beacuse of this I passed everyone and was on my own for a while. I had found it frustrating at first, as there was only one path and space for just one person at a time, so I found people trying to over take me all the time, and it was only when it got steeper and steeper that people had to keep having lots of breaks, but my pace was nice and slow so I didnt need to as much.
When we got to the top before the top (Im sure theres a word for that!), Maurice and I had to wait for someone to come up as we had no water.
The views were amazing. The Amazon stretching out for miles and miles into mist. To be honest, I was a little dubious about how far away we had come. It would be so easy for the company to just take us down the river, round and round and only be 30 mins away from Puerto Ayacocho! but when I saw that view it suddenly dawned on me how far away wed come. What an overwhelming feeling to realise that so high up on a mountain!
The desent was fun, as Im always much faster going down (maybe thats from doing lots of walking in the Lake District, and the excitement about going back to the house for a hot bath and tea was what spurred me on!)so fast in fact that I lost everyone pretty early. About 30 mins down I was deep in thought and suddenly Id lost the path. No direction looked right, started retracing my steps, then down one route back again, just starting to panic (too many wierd animals in the rain forest) when Maurice came up behind me and fightend the life out of me! As soon as I saw him, the path was so clear I couldnt understand wy I was so confused!.
While wed been walikg our hammock had been put up for us which was such a relief because this new camp, despite being so beautiful, was FULL of mosquitos, so we were all able to hide away from them while our guide made us a late lunch. It started raining just after lunch, which made the mossies go away, then night fell at 1900 on the dot, which is mosquito bed time in these parts so we were saved. Maurice has been bitten so much that Im sure if they were there all night there would be nothing left of him. As the sun went down, I lay out on the rocks with the Czechs on the banks of the river, listening to the river run down the rapids.
Dinner was delicious fish that the local Indians had caught for us and traditionally smoked for us in their village, then brought it to us.
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