This is ready to put on the stick and put in the grill.
We're eating larva?
Larva.
Here we go.
This is actually really good.
It's salty.
It's like a salty croissant.
Yes it's good.
It is so yummy!
Wow. Something is really crunchy!
We stopped in a village and they're showing us some of the local techniques
for making food and also they're gonna show us some animals.
Hello. Oh, he's coming up!
Hola, amigo.
Oh my gosh that is so cute!
Ok, so after playing with the animals for a little bit, we are walking through the village
to the other side and not I'm not actually sure what's on the inside.
So, I'm excited
He's got a satellite on his house. I love this.
Apparently this flower gives off a sap. It is a hallucinogen.
That's a termite nest that's so crazy
About a 20-minute boat ride through the jungle and we have arrived
Alright, so we got to the lodge, we ate lunch, took a little break,
and now we have some boots.
We're gonna go hike through the jungle!
...and also if you have infection in the mouth, cough, many many uses.
This is called, "Ubos" (?)
It's a "Moracia" (?) species. [I can't find this on Google]
Who wants to taste it?
That's no good.
Tastes like bad dirt and it instantly dries out your mouth.
Those are termites.
Ok, I'm gonna put my hand next to this ant so you can see the size of it
Guide: NO! No. (Grabs my shoulder and pulls me back)
Ok. Don't touch those ants.
Apparently, if they bite you it hurts a lot
But seriously it was like that big
So for a tree to get this size, it has to be 120 to somewhere between
700-800 years old. It's hard to describe just how massive this tree is.
So we're here mid-January, which is the middle of the rainy season
so it's practically a miracle that it's sunny out
We were very lucky today.
That's why there's so much mud, because it was raining yesterday,
and it'll probably be raining tomorrow.
The purple, the seeds are bitter.
I don't think you're supposed to eat the purple parts.
Ok, so they said we could go swimming in this river.
Guide: "Uh, huh"
I am the only one...
Claro! Of course there's piranhas.
Guide: They don't bite you if you don't bleeding. You know?
Ha! They don't bite if you're not bleeding.
It's good to know. I'm not bleeding.
We are gonna jump from the boat
into the river over here.
It feels so good!
Guide: Yes, this is the best way to test in the Amazon, eh?
Oh, that is refreshing!
It's dark out.
So we had a good dinner, hung out, and we were going out for a night cruise.
We're gonna try and find some alligators.
We'll see how well the camera does.
Our guide just went onto land...
...and he's coming back with an alligator.
What the heck?!
Guide: "...this is why, it's spectacular."
Guide: "The babies, they starting to eat by instinct. Never the mom feed them."
He likes me!
Can you see the teeth?
Well that was a fun experience. I still can't believe he saw that little thing from the boat.
We are going to bed now because we have a 4:30 wake-up call for sunrise.
So let's flash forward to then.
It's just before 5:00 a.m.
A little foggy.
But we're gonna go see if we can catch sunrise,
and listen to the morning symphony of animals here in the Amazon.
He said that spider's about the size of your hand - the one that made that.
Alright, we just got off the boat
and we are going up into an indigenous village now
This is what they used to paint us.
Those are piranha teeth? Ah yeah, that's sharp.
When they shoot the dart in the animal, this piece breaks and keeps inside.
It's called "Kukuna" (?)
That's why they take a long time to make. More or less 3 months.
Going outside to watch this blow dart demonstration.
I got a little canoe.
That sloth is so cute!
Ok, time to go eat breakfast
So we are in the last one.
Got a little lock here - security. They gave us the lock.
We have 3 beds in here...
...the sink and the toilet use water straight from the river...
...it's brown.
It's mosquito netting and curtains all the way around for privacy...
...and for keeping all the critters out.
Last night we slept really well
Obviously a nice breeze coming through.
Ok, so we had a quick breakfast and now we're heading out to Monkey Island.
Word to the wise, that warpaint is no joke.
I scrubbed and scrubbed and scrubbed I swear I took a layer of skin off,
it's raw on my face but it almost came off.
I don't know. I don't know what that is, it just stains your face.
So be aware.
We are here, and apparently there are bathrooms
and we can wash up if we want to
and I assume we're gonna see some monkeys so we'll see
Cool. I figure he'll just hop off.
"It's yours now!"
He's just hanging off his tail?!
"He's getting all the bugs, Brian"
I said I wasn't planning on kissing a monkey but...
I mean, if she's gonna be that forward
That is so crazy how they can hold on that well with their tail.
"Hey, bud!"
"Oh, hi!"
"What? You want the camera?"
We're wandering into the jungle to try to find the pygmy marmoset
Giving him a ride to the nearest tree
Oh, did he just grab a leaf?
Wanna get on the tree?
No. He wants to ride me.
Ok.
He's walked all around the park with me.
Let's see if he'll get off at the tree.
He doesn't want the tree.
You want this one?
No. He's just my friend now.
We have to leave, so I think he's coming with me.
Alright, we're gonna head back to our lodge maybe go for a little swim on the way
"The louder the better!"
Woo!!
Yeah! Woo!
Wooooo!
"Can you feel little piranhas?"
The mud's up to his hips!
So this is arapaima. That's a giant fish from the Amazon.
And this is majas. It's like a giant guinea pig.
And now we are fishing for piranhas.
"Alright, it's baited!"
We got one!
It's so cute!
Check it out!
It is non-stop! We're going on 13 straight hours of activity today.
And right now, we are going on a night walk, going right into the backyard
We're gonna find some tarantulas right in the jungle right behind us.
Apparently the spiders hunt at night so we are now the prey.
It's a scorpion spider.
Guide: "Here is another one. You see the body?"
"You see the body here? It's almost inside."
"Yes, yes, it's a bird-eating tarantula."
"This is a male wolf..."
"...and this is a female. Yeah, the same kind."
He's saying anacondas hang out here by the water.
"Oh my gosh there's something crawling on my leg."
So this is the trick to find stuff...
you hold the flashlight up here right by your eyes
and anything that's nocturnal, their eyes reflect back.
The guide calls it, "shine eyes."
So as you're looking around, you just scan.
And I see something here
and you can zoom in and there's gonna be a little spider there.
Now that's the jungle experience that I was expecting.
When we did the daytime walk, the rainforest wasn't as,
I guess, hostile as I thought it would be.
but it wasn't. When we went through the walk during the daytime,
it was kind of nice. Just kind of a walk in the park.
But this, walking through there and seeing all those spiders and snakes
and everything that was poisonous,
that's that intense, kind of hostility I expected from a rainforest, so...
very cool. I'm glad we did that.
We're gonna eat dinner now and then tomorrow's our last day.
"Alright, who caught it? That's who gets to eat it."
"Yeah, who caught these?"
"I didn't catch... the one I caught, I had to throw back."
It's good!
It is 5:30 in the morning, on our last morning here in the Amazon
...and we are paddling because we want to hear the birds chirp in the morning.
This is awesome.
[birds chirping and other nature sounds]
Guide: "Yellow-headed caracara hawk."
The sun is peeking out now through the trees.
Guide: "You can see the neck. It can move like a snake."
"Ahinga ahinga?"
Guide: "Anhinga. They dive inside the water for to get the fish."
We rode out for about an hour and a half and it's gonna take about 15 minutes to get back
so, a little bit quicker.
But we're gonna go have breakfast and and then that's it for our Amazon experience.
We haven't even left yet and it just barely started raining.
Can you believe the timing? We are SO lucky.
Coming here in the middle of the wet season, and it doesn't rain the entire time we're here.
and then literally 15 seconds after we get on the boat, it starts raining.
But we're covered!
Alright, that's it for the Amazon.
Getting on a plane, heading up to Cusco right now.
We're gonna go check out Machu Picchu.
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