Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Amazon Last Day

Before we fly out of The Amazon we have one last place to visit..It starts with a boat ride to Fundo Neisser,which is a private reserve where more than five species of tropical primates are protected and readied to return to the jungle eventually. We saw lots of young naughty monkeys,a mata turtle (big & very ugly) an anaconda,spider monkey who was very old and lay presiding on the counter snoozing.Many parrots,a macaw and a toucan,plus high up in a tree was a 3 toed sloth who moved down the tee trunk so slowly that we were gone before he was even halfway!It was really inspiring to see that so much care is taken to protect the wildlife with so many taken from the market where they sell them. Saying goodbye to our jungle home brought a sad feeling as we realised that our trip to Peru was coming to an end. We flew out of Iquitos and landed in Lima where we stayed our last night in Peru at the San Antonio Hotel again.This time we were put in an enormous suite where we overlooked the city.As it was late ,we ordered room service and had a delicious omelette which we shared. Little did we know what lay ahead for us tomorrow and the easy flight to Santiago & then our flight home was about to go horribly wrong! The earthquake off Santiago (which we knew nothing about) had thrown all flights in and out to be cancelled.We ended up having to fly to Los Angeles where we had to spend a day and night before we got a flight home to Sydney via Melbourne. So apart from the foming home fiasco with airlines,we had the adventure of a lifetime and loved every single second of being in PERU !!!

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