we have our first jungle animal spotting i know where's that
there's a wild ecuadorian puppy oh my gosh she's getting so dirty okay it's a jungle
hello and welcome back to nicole amico if you have been following our channel for a little while you
will know that we were just exploring the salt flats in bolivia but since then we have made
our way here to ecuador despite its being such a small country it has so many things to offer
and in this video we're going to be exploring the amazon rainforest over the next four days
oh my gosh the lodge
i feel like like the middle of nowhere right now and all
of a sudden we took a left and then this came
welcome to our lodge for the next four days double beds mosquito nets flowers with tp
for the center i like the creativity yeah a big old room a couple of hangers makeshift closet
and washroom oh hey oh wow there's a shower in here in the mirror even
this room is super cool because it's like really open concept there is a door
to get into this room but the window that you see here isn't really a window it's actually just like
a mesh and then like above that and above the door it's like open it's all open it's like the outside
so yeah it's uh really nice like i feel like we are going to be one with nature exactly which
is the whole reason we're here and the last thing to show is out here we've got a hammock
i see a lot of reading in my future this is going to be an awesome place to spend the next four days
all right we've settled into the lodge and it's gone
very very dark so we put it on our boots and we're gonna head out and do a night walking tour
so in about 10 minutes we've seen bullet dance big spiders oh cool can stick bug spider babies
that was kind of neat crickets huge crickets morris coming i'm sure we'll found a tarantula
oh wow okay vegan squeeze the volunteer i need one hand to do what
if you look close enough everything moves
it is so cool being out here because like there's so much life like any time i feel
like i'm going to touch a branch or anything like that i kind of look at that branch first
and if you look hard enough there's so many small things on it it's so so neat
look how she's destroying the web and look at that wow
i kind of feel bad well in one way it's bad for the
cricket but good for the spider spider yeah and we and we support spiders
nature was an absolute success i can't believe all the things we saw
so many different kinds of spiders even like gekko thingies we saw a frog actually i think
it might have been a toad and a giant tarantula there was just so much to see
we could have been out there all night then we might have died
okay early morning it's definitely worth it we are seeing tons of birds around here
and the funniest part is we're so deep in the jungle that we're like
a five minute row boat ride from the lodge to see all these birds here they're like everywhere
and the sound that is coming from that way is a group of macao it's coming one two thing now
that is a perfect example of a prehensile tail it is a day like an extra hand
you guys look mildly relaxed we just finished breakfast it was amazing we got a bit of downtime
before our next hiking through the woods part of the day and uh with us today we just want to show
you guys introduce james and kayla hello our best friends from canada they're joining us on this
trip and uh so far so good the jungle is a lot more relaxing than i thought it would be oh yeah
do i look like i belong here part of the jungle
what's cool it's called a band-aid mushroom you like rub it apart and then if you
cut just stick it on your cut just like that you let it sit there and it gets dry and then poof
jungle band-aid i think just the face painting just really legitimizes what nicole has to say
normally they have this extra scale i don't like these
this little guy is a magic mushroom he says that the local people actually can
use them for like to get rid of parasites that they have in their stomachs but
other people just use them to get high holy smokes
you see a little water up here and more water it's amazing it tastes so good tastes like normal water
oh and very sour tastes like green apples
oh you can put it this way you just need this liquid like open the nose
a little oh medicine for the flu whoa
everything's clear making me hungry though it really smells like garlic
oh i don't know if i want to eat them
so it tastes like lemon oh lemon
lemony so those are the lemon ants and they taste like lemonade weird
oh it's trippy it moves in the way that you would expect a spider to move
still just extra skeletons does it dry up lick it that's a cool fight
is this
fun so what do you guys think so cool so hot so many trees so many trees definitely got the full
jungle experience we were supposed to be there for two hours we were there for three and a half
hungry it is hot it's worth that
okay vegetable cream soup eaten the ecuadorian way this is so cool oh is
it buttery all right i'm just going to start with that because i want them all to get mushy
it's like having oh that's good it's like having crackers in your soup
if your crackers were buttery
we call this also tortillas
all right i finished breakfast now we're getting in the boat to go to a pallet board
is this we are paddle boarding in the amazon this is not something i ever thought i would
do in my whole life yeah this is uh not bad at all you just have to get over the fact
that there might be something in the water that might want to eat you this is cool every day on
this trip i think like this is the best day this is the top day of this trip then the next day
how's the water it's not super refreshing not terrifying at all it's actually not bad you
see anything in the water well that's the i think that's what freaks you out because
you can't see me look i'm orange like you can't see anything so i don't know if it's good or bad
nothing to worry about hearing something piranhas piranhas caymans scary fish that go into your body
it doesn't get i think so far so good this is awesome is it scary really yeah
a river possibly full of piranhas or something
we're in the water and we were soaking wet and then it started raining so heavily
and uh yeah it doesn't really make much of a difference at this point
yeah the rain disappeared now it's got really sunny really quickly
so we're just putting the paddleboards away right now but right as we end our
paddleboarding experience the pink river dolphins have come up
well back home we go a little bit rainy in the rainforest today it's
all right we're off the boat that was a super wet ride but man was it all worth it oh my god
i think that was so far absolutely my favorite like experience and like thing that we've done
on this trip literally as i was like coming back up to the boat to get off of my paddleboard
um like three feet in front of my paddleboard the top of a dolphin emerged oh my god it was so cool
we have been in the boat a whopping three minutes and we are at the location where
we're going to go up fishing it's a little scary
my piranhas like that close to her staying but it's only a three minute boat ride
i love how this activity comes after we go paddle boarding and swimming in the water
i think that was our purpose okay raw meat
fishing rod all right let's try this fresh meat fresh meat come on come on come on come on
we are ready for you fresh meat fresh meat
yeah i got a couple nibbles here too
i felt it and then i pulled him out and then he disappeared before i could
really have a look good look at him he was definitely fish there was something there
come on you guys last chance
well we had a great time but uh don't fish didn't catch anything let's just say if we were a village
we'd probably starve tonight thankfully we're not we're gonna go have a delicious dinner i'm sure
we are back up and on the boat at 6am to go find animals
apparently not that big but they look bigger
he thought i was napping that was so cool
it's a mammal i don't know it's like a tiny little elephant crossed with a rhino and an anteater
and it swims really well i guess
where did he go
we found this look i have no idea how our guide found this thing um and there's no
way we're gonna catch it on the camera but we found it i can see it in the binoculars
right there well now the dolphins are out this has to be the best morning
so
wow what a morning we saw so many things it's definitely worth the
early morning wake up but now it's time for breakfast it's a pretty cool spot right wow
this has been possibly the fastest four days of our whole lives i don't know if we've said it or
not we are here with white a lodge is the name of the company that we chose they have been honestly
so incredible so if you're looking to come on an amazon tour we highly recommend white lodge
and our guy diego has been just phenomenal i don't know how he sees these animals
he's only see his green brush and trees and he stops the boat stop look there like what what is
there so uh in the same way that we came in here in the rain we'll be leaving here in the rain
and i think we'll leave you guys there as well we will see you in the next one thanks for watching
and it's gonna be the first period of holiday so we're really really excited
because we're always really excited you know really really good always
super really excited and i think next up is some paddle boating boarding paddle boarding