Our hike in the morning was excruciatingly painful. We had to wear wellington rain boots. Mine were a little small in the calve area for me so it rubbed against the skin most of the time. I ended up with a rash on both legs the day after. The hike was really long. It took us about 2 hours to hike up to the river. We ended up walking through mud and marshland. The soles of the boots were very uncomfortable. That along with the humidity caused the hike to be really really cumbersome. Once we got to the lake we had lunch. Lunch was fried rice wrapped in a banana lead. It smelled really bad when I pulled it out of the bag. Once you got past the smell it wasn’t so bad.

The boat tour around the river was a little boring. We were all tired and to sit in a boat for an hour some of us started to fall asleep. I had to keep waking Cory up so that he wouldn’t fall in. We really didn’t see much on the river except a few birds so it was quite boring. I was so bored I volunteered to row. The hike back was another 1 and ½ hours. After the Inca Trail and hike is going to be excruciating. I thought it was a wasted morning as we really didn’t see too much.

Later on that day we took a river boat tour looking for caimans. Caimans are in the alligator/crocodile class. It was a night tour so it was very dark with only a spot light to find the creatures. We saw about 6 of them. The ones we saw were very small, the biggest being about 2-3 meters in length. We got to about 2 meters from them. They looked really like baby alligators. Supposedly they are a lot bigger in the lake areas. You can spot them by shining light on their eyes and noticing the reflection. Even at night they’re very camouflaged. The hour tour was a nice change of pace from the hiking. After the tour we had dinner and went to bed. Lily noticed a few cockroaches (monstrous) in her dresser drawers. We complained about it the morning after but I doubt the lodge will do anything.