Today was a great fun day. It was Alex´s last day in Peru and we hired one of the little wooden Barcos (boats) to go to a Island in the middle of the Amazon which has loads of monkeys on it.
The boat ride took about 1.5 hours and we saw some pink dolfins jump out of the water next to the boat. I am still feeling like the ground is shaking like a boat, sitting here in the internet cafe. (I guess the amounts of beer I am drinking alongside, doesn´t help).
Arriving at the Island it is exactly like you´d imagine a monkey island in the jungle. The monkeys are everywhere, jumping around and being not scared of us at all. They think my red-bean-earrings are some fruits to eat and climb up on me using my camera strap and hair as ladders. I have never seen monkeys in the wild and certainly never touched any. It is really funny to watch them.
We play with all kinds of different monkeys for a while and then go for a walk into the jungle with our guide. He takes a machete and shows us what its for- when you run out of water in the jungle you can cut some roots and drink from them. He cuts through arm thick wooden roots with the machete as if it was caramel and hands me a log. He indicates to hold of over my mouth, and really the pure water flows out of it, like a little well. The water tastes better than any I have had in Peru so far- it probably is very clean because it is filtered naturally. Amazing! Then we walk through a banana forest and come past a star-fruit-tree. Our guide climbs up the tree like a monkey and throws down some fruit for us.
I knew starfruit from european supermarkets and as decorations for cocktails, which doesn´t taste of anything. This fruit I am trying now is absolutely delicous, bright orange, juicy and very sweet and sour at the same time. I like it!
We pass some more mini white-beard monkeys that jump on my back and eat fruit from our hands, before we head back on the amazon.
On the way back we get to whitness an amazing amazon-sunset and I feel very grateful to be able to see all this.
More fun stories next weekend. I hope you are all well. Kisses from Jungle-Joa.
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