lodge.

The past few days I´ve spent in area between Pacaya-Samiria national reserve and Tamshiyacu conservation area. I cannot remember the name of the river since I do not have my notes with me. The area was of Amazon Refugee Wildlife Conservation center. The area is full of birds, of which species I`ll add later on! Every place you lay your eyes on, is full of life.

The first day was spent by getting to the lodge. The evening we wandered in the forest, and my guide told me about the medical plants and insects.... introduced me the penis-tree (yay) and almost said too late for me not to pick up a stick insects that was very poisonous. I fell in love with a bird called horned screamer. The next night i couldn´t brush my teeth because there was two brown, big spiders in my sink.

Next day was our first to try to look for the shaman after we had done a bird excursion by the river in the morning. That shaman-visit failed, so we kayaked to a "lake". Kayaking does no good for my instabile joints.... in the meanwhile, we stopped by one riverside and my guide went to catch me a sloth!! So cute! The sloth that is. We were walking so long in the thick forest... we also came by a sloth killed probablly by a jaguar.

When we got to the lake, we started  to set up our camp. Washed ourselves a bit, made a fire etc. Later on we net fished in the river and got couple of fishes. Most of the time I was saying to the guide "that is illegal in Finland...are you sure it`s ok?" :D Most of the time I was saying to myself "fuck this shit" because moving around in a rainforest is not too easy, and i was disappointed i paid so much money for no electricity, no shaman, no food... and because my guide was just trying to hit on me all the time.

Next morning was beautiful, wow! And my guide was sorry for his behavior.. So when we finally had kayaked back to the regfugee center, he offered me a new plan, we could try to find a shaman afer lunch from two villages. Before lunch I caught my lunch. I got at least 6 wolf fishes with a hook, but we didn´t take but the biggest one. Muy rico! Wolf fishes do not have much bones, it`s all meat.

The second village we went to look for shaman was so beautiful, it was surrounded by fruit trees, coffee bushes, corn, rice, bean fields... they had everything! They had also very old ayahuasca vine. But no shaman. Shaman was in Napo. The second village had a shaman but no Ayacuasha. The village was even more beautiful than the second one. Since we were lacking time, we decided we will stay at the village for the night and head to Napo the following day. We stayed at my guide`s friends. We got food, a place to sleep at and i got to chat with my age guy who wanted to be a nurse too, but he hadn´t had money but for one semester in Napo... he was quite blue because there´s no work in the village, and he wanted out.

The next night I didn´t sleep almost at all, because my guide insisted me to wake up at 4 am and go for a walk around "beautiful morning". I hadn´t slept, because I was laying on the floor with one sheet and to these bones that´s a tad bit too little cushions. I couldn´t think, so at 4 am I turned down my guide´s proposal and crawled in one free hammock in the room and tried to make my nest there. Slept for 2 hours until the family started to et up.

The villagers had very common "bathrooms", an elevated structure with a hole, under it all the exctrement, and very close a tank of "pure water" in the ground which was used for washing up. The home where my guide prepared our morning eggs had some parakeets as pets, so cute. Peruvian love animals, too bad usually they don´t live too long because of all the paracites.

The final day we were on our way to Napo. Stopped by on a sand island on the crossroads of three different rivers. There we had a good chat about everything with my guide. I think I also managed to let him know that his english is very bad and he has to practise more so he won´t give any false information for the tourists. :D

It´s going to be a hoooooot day again. Cusco planning.