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There
are only two seasons near the equator; the rainy and the dry
season. During the rainy season it's good to have your house
on stilts for when the water rises!
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The
canopy can be quite dense when you look up - but bloody birdless
it would seem.
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Wash
day...difficult to imagine growing up here.
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We
pull in and trek off with two guides, employed to make sure
nothing eats us.
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Don't
knock it...despite looking ridiculous, not a bite did I get!
Can you see Colonel
Fawcett in the bushes? Nah, you're probably looking in
the wrong
place then.
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Jeeper
creepers.
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Negrinho
the guide Blue
Peters some cocoa he squeezed earlier.
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After
a demonstration of how to set up a blow pipe animal trap,
which fruits are juicy and which ones killl, Negrinho, satisfied
we can't survive 30 secs alone, takes us back...
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