We decided to do a 3 day trip to the Pampas with the prospect of seeing lots of wildlife & we weren't disappointed!
First day we hopped into an ancient 4x4 truck, 10 minutes into the journey & two hefty iron men (sorry double Iron Men - yes these guys were hardcore!) in our group had collapsed one row of seats! After a hot, dusty & sweaty ride to the river we were relieved & excited to get out & jump into our motorised canoe that took us two hours downstream to our lodge. Along the way we saw hundreds of alligator, caimen, turtles, giant guinea pig creatures & loads of birds (don't know names as not a twitcher!).
The following day we went anaconda hunting & were luck to find two which we were even brave enough to put around our necks... it was comedy, just after the piccie below was taken the snake puked up a dead mouse!
Next activity was piranha fishing, altogether our group caught 20 plus fishes, some of which we used again for bait. The biggest piranha caught was trying to eat his mates head - nyyce! We ate them for tea & actually they're pretty good!
Waking up for sunrise next morning we went off in the canoe to go monkey spotting, except after 10 minutes the heavens opened & we got seriously drenched! The only thing to warm us up would be a swim in the warm, murky river... with can you believe it - pink dolphins! It was so amazing, the alligators won't swim near the dolphins, so they were protecting us (sweet hey)!
The journey back to town was hellish as it had been pouring all day, the roads (actually just dirt tracks) has turned to mud, which meant slipping & sliding all over the road (as if on ice) & a fair few pushes when we got stuck!
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