Canyoning was scary but super fun!! We climbed down four water falls. Two were six metres high, the other twelve and last but not least, twenty five. We got on our very uncomfortable wet suits and got in a car for about twenty minutes. Once we got there, we learnt all the things we needed to know to stay alive and then we practiced. After that we climbed a hill ( still in our wet suits) and got to the first six metres high water fall. That was probably the most scary because it was the first one and we were climbing down the actual part where the water goes. After that, we moved on to the next 12 metres water fall (one of my two favourites). This one was way less scary because we were still climbing down the rock, but not in the water. Next was the last six metres, but it felt longer and i got to climb down with Anna!!! The last one was so fun because it was twenty five metres high. We got clipped in, walked down a two step later, lay back and climbed down. At the end there was still a bit of the mountain left to go so we were put into pairs of two, we were tide to a rope and lowered down this wall. The last thing we did was go down a natural slide, that was so fun!!!

Water Rafting, a highlight of South America. We got up at seven o’clock on a Wednesday morning, and we went to the Tour Center. When we got there we had to put on our wet suits. Mine was very uncomfortable but, i found it a bit more comfortable then canyoning. Then we got in a car and drove for around twenty minutes before arriving at the river. When we arrived, there was a long demonstration on how to Water Raft including, what would happen if we fell into the river, were to sit, how and when to paddle and also the levels. The levels where: 1 was easy and tiny rapids, 2 was a little bit more rocky but still tiny rapids, 3 was rocky and a little bit bigger rapids, 4 was big rapids and really rocky, 5 was steep and huge rapids, and the highest level was 6, waterfalls. He said that we would be in 3s and 4s. So when the instructions were clear, we all got in boat. I liked it because we worked as a team, our guide was hilarious and funniest of all the different faces my parents made. It felt like a roller coaster going down those big rapids. All of it was so fun and fast we nearly fell out of the boat a couple times. We were mostly on 3s but there was one 4 that was so much fun. Near the end of the activity it started to rain but it was still loads of fun. Definitely recommended!

The Amazon jungle in Ecuador was great!!! We saw several monkeys, five snakes, some little crocodiles and some interesting birds. Getting there was the hardest part. We had to go to bed in a hotel in Quito at 8pm, then at 11pm we woke up and took a taxi to another hotel thinking that was the place to hop on the bus. When we got there there was nobody, so we waited almost another hour for the bus to actually come and so we got on and rode all through the night. The next morning at 7am the bus arrived at a restaurant, we ate breakfast and got on another bus for just 2 hours. We finally arrived in the Amazon! We weren’t at the lodge yet though, we had to take a 3 hour BOAT ride to get there so that’s what we did. I was so glad when we got there and we were all exhausted!!!!!! That night we went for a night walk and saw a vine snake that was green and in a tree like a vine. The next day I slept in until 8:30 because I didn’t want to miss breakfast. At around 10 o’clock we went paddling and saw some birds and monkeys, that was fun and relaxing! That afternoon we went for a walk and saw a tarantula which wasn’t as interesting to us because in Salento we had found one in our room. The day after was very busy we woke up at 6 and went bird watching we saw some more monkeys. Then we went down the river to an indigenous community were we made, harvest and ate yuca bread, we put chocolate on one and made the other one into a tortilla. We also tried larvae it sounds gross but it is actually quite good, I bet we would have liked it more if we didn’t have to pick up the alive larvae, wash them, stick them on a skewer and cook them. That was the gross part.

In the afternoon went to a lagoon and swam, it was so warm. Then we went looking for Caimans ( little crocodiles) and found two boas we got super close. By the time we got back that night it was very late so we just had dinner and went to bed. On Thursday we had the choice to go bird watching but I was to tired so I stayed at the lodge, after breakfast the group that was only staying for three nights left so we were only nine people. We went on a walk and tried a medicine that smelled like garlic that was from the nature, we had to snort up the garlic thing and it burned a lot. It was as if you pored a bottle of hot sauce up your nose. At 4pm we went on a boat and paddled once again. The we went for another night walk and saw a snake called ‘snail eating snake’, guess what it ate? The next we had to leave, it was so sad.