That afternoon we went with Tundó Tours in a canoe up the Tundó River to explore the mangrove swamps and then on a short hike to a waterfall.
It was really fun. Sebastian said it was his favorite part of the trip.
All the plants living on that tree! Crazy!
It was weird seeing crabs just in the trees all over.
I was using a Panasonic camera that I bought specifically to bring to Colombia this day and I think the humidity was messing with it. It had such a hard time focussing on anything and all the pictures aren't that great.
Ugh! Huge spiders everywhere!
Bright blue river prawn.
This is the most biodiverse rainforest on earth per kilometer squared, and one of the rainiest places on earth too.
We had hot chocolate after the hike, which is so funny to me that they serve something hot (we could have had coffee) but it was tasty. But then they washed out all the cups in the river, and the kids were turning green at that. But the guides were super nice, Francisco--I think--and his son.
I was kind of disappointed we didn't see more animals but that's the nature of things.
We did hear toucans but couldn't catch sight of them.
Do you see the head of the little babilla sticking out? We saw a couple.
The trees of the mangrove swamps are really cool.
The streets of El Valle.
Heading home to the hotel.
It's crazy to me all the noise of the rainforest in the background.
I'm a mom and a nurse, hopefully decent at both but that's debatable. I love history and family history and blogging is my way of keeping my family's history. Most of all, I love Leo (mi papacito esposo de Colombia) and Ana, Elena, Isabel, Sebastian, Nicolas, Jubal, and Efraim (mis hijos). My other passion is also dark and rico and from South America--that would be chocolate. Basically I like to eat chocolate, eat chocolate icecream, eat frozen hot chocolates from Dairy Queen, eat Peppermint Yorks, Junior Mints, and of course dark chocolate truffles. Okay, now that I've wiped the slobber off my chin from thinking about all of that, I'll get on to the rest of my blog. Oh, and I'm trying to learn Spanish but spend too much time blogging/sewing/reading/sewing instead.
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