709. Peru Trip | Wildlife (& Wildfire) in The Amazon

Drone shot of us with our guides in The Amazon!! I'm still in the middle of my Amazon posts and now the fires in the Amazon are all over the news and social media..so I'm feeling obligated to at least mention it lol. I don't have all the facts about this current fire in specific, but I do know that forest fires happen often/every year and are a necessary process of the environment. In fact, if there are not enough fires starting naturally..they are started intentionally as a way to "reset" the forest floor. When we were there we saw some very small fires started by people. I also heard that this fire was started intentionally by the Brazilian government in order to clear more land for cattle and agriculture and will not be used for reforestation. I personally do not agree with this and hope they do not get too extreme about it. In either case, there is nothing that people posting about it on social media can do ("thoughts and prayers" will not help). The Amazon is vast. Although it is sad for the animals there and different species dying away, I think people should be more worried about the Arctic disappearing.



Squirrel Monkey!




There were a lot of egrets in our area. I love them. They look very elegant.







The trees there are so cool! We came during the dry season so there was no water here but during the wet season, the water can get to a few metres high. It would be so cool to navigate around in a canoe.




This tree contains perfectly safe and drinkable water.


We found a caiman nest with eggs! Caiman can lay up to 50 eggs per pregnancy.




We visited this village, called San Juan de Yanayacu. There were a lot of kids. It was very small (I think population was about 90-something). All the houses were built around a rectangular field. Our lodge was one of the three in the area which supports this village. They showed us this anaconda snake they found:




The school in the village.


We bought some of the crafts they made.


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596. Rockies Roadtrip | Day 11 - Journey to Kelowna

Photo above: Although this isn't a desert, this is what I imagine an oasis to be like.

After a short stay in Whistler, we left bright and early (7am to be precise, since we had no choice thanks to the Ironman competition) the next morning on the way to Kelowna. At first we were not happy about the early departure but I think eventually we all agreed that we did the right thing by leaving early. Due to a few situations that arose, our entire journey to Kelowna probably took twice as long as it should've. I got extremely carsick along the way thanks to the lack of sleep, no breakfast and twisty roads. So because of that I had to keep asking for them to stop the car so I could get out for a break.

Then at one point we accidentally took a detour and ended up on the wrong highway for an hour or two before we realized it was the wrong way. But on the bright side..it may have been the more scenic route because we saw this beautiful lake in the photo above and got to see some forest fires:



I love roadtrips and the feeling of being the only ones on the road in the middle of nowhere..

Lillooet: where I first started feeling really carsick and had to get out of the car. I don't know why I felt the need to take a pic and commemorate that moment hahah.

I think there was some construction around here so we had to stop and wait for awhile. If you look closely, you can see a helicopter in the air. I took the opportunity to get out of the car again and walk around...still felt extremely nauseous but couldn't miss a good photo opportunity:


After what seemed like many hours, we finally arrived at a town to get some food. As soon as we turned into it...I had to ask my friend to stop the car right away so I can go into the first place I saw and use the washroom since I had a huge stomachache as well at that point. So I got out and walked into a random pub/restaurant where it was all locals in there. I normally never go into a restaurant just to use their washroom but I had no choice at that time..I felt bad but they were very nice about it. Afterwards I went out to look for my friends again..they had already driven around a bit and found a small place for breakfast (photo above). I felt like I would just throw up whatever I was to eat..so I didn't eat anything and just had a drink while my friends had their huge breakfasts.

After that, we set off again. & I think nearing Kelowna..we stopped again at this place. I still wasn't able to eat at that point though.


Needless to say, that was the toughest leg of the trip...luckily from then on, we had no other issues for the remainder of our drives. Finally in the early evening, we arrived in Kelowna. We didn't really do much there since we didn't have much time and it was already starting to get dark. So we walked around for a bit and went for dinner at Earls, once again.

This was a few hours after we arrived so I thought I was ok to finally eat my first meal of the day. I ordered my favourite salmon dish again but a few bites in I felt sick again so unfortunately I wasn't able to finish all of it..

I liked the rooftop patio at this Earls. Nice atmosphere and we had a nice server from the Netherlands. This was the view:

After that, we went to a 24hr Shoppers Drug Mart for a shopping trip with some really funny moments but I won't get into the details of that hahah ;)

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