"They're easier to spot than monkeys"

We arrived in Lagro Agrio just after 6am on Monday morning and we were picked up by our tour guide a little after 9:30 for the second leg of our trip, 11 of us boarded the minibus for the two hour ride to the river - and after a quick lunch stop our mode of transport changed from road to river and the next three hours were spent in a canoe on the amazon.

I don't know why but when we booked our trip to the jungle I must have been so caught up in the thought of all the wildlife that we were going to see that I didn't think about ALL of the wildlife we were going to see. It wasn't until our guide told us not to be scared of the spiders and tarantulas that I remembered that spiders the size of cats live in the jungle. I will be forever grateful to Abby and Linda (the 'Mum' of the group) who tucked me in at night to ensure that the spiders couldn't get me!

Our room-mate

Each day in the jungle was action packed, the highlights were seeing Cayman (easier to spot than monkeys), wearing shorts with wellies (a first since 1976) and the flying fish which occasionally landed in the boat, sometimes flew straight over and on more than one occasion smacked someone in the face.

Practical they may be but louboutin's they are not....

The lowlight, the spiders.....

Abs and I agree, we're not cut out for jungle life.....