I woke up around 6am and just lay in bed for about an hour listening to all the sounds. I slept really well although we had a storm in the night and I did hear the thunder a couple of times.

After breakfast we set off on a hike through the jungle to see if we could spot some more animals. It was really hot and humid and we didn’t see a huge amount of animals. We did see this common jungle spider, a ladybird type of bug, an owl eyed butterfly and a frog.

We also learnt about the fire ant tree. This is a tree where the fire ants live and if the ants leave the tree dies. The bark of the tree can be used in a tea to help with diarrhoea and vomiting. Not a good tree to hold onto though!

On the way back to the ecolodge I took a couple of photos of the cabins. The one at the bottom is the one Katrin and I stayed in.

The ecolodge has a couple of cats of its own, the black one is just like a little panther.

After lunch Katrin and I, with our guide, took another hike through the jungle. Ditte and Heinrick decided to chill out around the lodge.

As we walked along it started to rain but as the tree canopy was so dense very little rain actually got through for a while. However, we did shelter for a little bit when it got really heavy. But it was actually quite refreshing after all the heat and humidity.

After an hour or so we reached the river where Juan Carlos and another guy from the lodge showed us how the indigenous people used to make rafts. We then donned life jackets and jumped onto the homemade raft.

It was actually pretty stable. After a few minutes we all jumped in the water and swam for a bit – I say swim but actually you just got carried along by the current. Inbetween, when the water was too rough or to shallow we hopped back onto the raft or held onto it. At one point it was a bit like white water rafting and I got thrown off the raft.

But we all made it safely back to dry land.

After swimming in the muddy water we took a shower and then met up with the others for dinner.

Again, it was an early night as if you sit outside for too long you get bitten by the mosquitos. Luckily there are not many of them in the cabins.