Thursday, January 25, 2007

Venezuela. Los Llanos.





The journey here was terrible yesterday. Hot hot temperatures, sideways seating, bashing knees with the person opposite did nothing for the rum hangover from last night. Close to our destination, we spotted an Anteater and the driver and the guide shot out of the Jeep and started running after it!. They were gone for ages looking for It to try to bring it back to us, but they couldn't catch it. Their determination to catch it gave us a good, positive feeling about this tour as they looked so enthusiastic!.
We went to bed last night exhausted, it was a 10 hour journey, a long way going sideways. We were given the option to sleep in a hammock or a regular bed. I felt a little silly on missing out on the hammock experience but I KNOW beds are better!.
This morning after a nice breakfast of Arrepas, we got back in the Jeep to do a mini safari towards the river. Five of us got on top of the roof of the Jeep and we went through the scrub land holding on very tightly!.
We had a 2 hour cruise on a long motor boat where we saw various birds, Caymans (croc´s), turtles and dolphins. They tried to catch an anaconda but didn't find one.
Absolutely beautiful journey and so amazing to see dolphins in a river!. We have lots of Caymans in the river next to our camp, we saw all their eyes shining last night ... they looked so spooky!.

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