Tue
8
Dec '09
I’ve made it to Leticia, a small town in the south of Colombia along the Amazon river. In the middle of the rain forest. As you can imagine, internet connections are a little slow here – I’m amazed I can get connected at all.
Today I went to “Monkey Island” which is an island in the Amazon river. Yes, the river is so big it has islands. Anyway, true to its name, Monkey Island is full of monkeys. And if you bring a few bananas you’ll find yourself quickly mobbed by them.
Now then, on to the pics. I’m only going to upload a few due to internet slowness, but I promise they’re the best!
- The monkeys are looking for the person with the bananas
- I get mobbed by some of the monkeys
- Nyaaaah!
- After messing with the monkeys, we go canoeing in a lagoon on the island
- This is a lagoon in the middle of an island, which is itself in the middle of a river.
- No picture gallery from the Amazon would be complete without some birds..
- A view of the Amazon river as we leave. As I said, it’s a very, very big river









December 8th, 2009 at 10:02 pm
Great monkey shots. Bring several home.