Manaus - Go Inn
The last day of our jungle trek and another boat trip, this time to visit a local family to see their two room house (which sleeps 9 people), and see how they prepare the locally grown crops for their own use. The family sleep in hammocks in one room while the other room is the kitchen area. We were able to try some of the fruit grown at the house, learn about how cyanide is removed from the manioca root that is part of their staple diet, and also endure the screams of one of our fellow travellers who stepped on an ants nest.
We were due to head back to Manaus after lunch (which included the piranhas we caught yesterday, though the fish were so small and thin that once they were cooked all that was left was skin and bones!), however we were delayed as the dirt road that we travelled on to get there was washed out, which meant a different route back. We boarded a very large boat with an upper deck and chairs for our two hour ride back along the Amazon, before jumping into a van for a while, then another boat ride past the meeting of the waters (as rain poured onto K via the side window) and finally back to our hotel in Manaus.
Overall the weather was much more pleasant in the jungle than in Manaus, as the rain helped to keep the temperature down, and plenty of deet also meant that we survived with only a few insect bites, only time will tell whether our anti malaria meds were worth taking - but they haven't failed us yet in any of our other trips..
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