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AMAZON ADVENTURE (2) [AMAZON ADVENTURE]

AMAZON ADVENTURE (2)

LIFE IN THE FOREST

After flying to the city of Iquitos, Peru, the kids cruised 50 miles (80 km) down the amazon.

The boat finally docked at a jungle hideaway called Explorama Lodge.
(以上再掲)

Right away the kids could see that life here would take getting used to !

Lots of rain made the air very humid, so wet clothes took days to dry. Kerosene lamp took the place of electric lights.(No ideos or hair dryers here!)

Mosquito netting kept creepy-crawlies out of their beds. And to go to the bathroom, the kids had to walk down a long path to an outside toilet.

" I miss hamburgers and pizza," said April,  I miss hamburgers and pizza," said April, " but I've tried some neat new foodsーlike fried bananas, black beans, and manioc root.

The kids didn't have to go far for animal-watching. While swinging on hammocks, they watched hummingbirds sip nectar from flowers.

They shared their showers with huge moths and weild katydids.

Once they even had to step over a column of marching army ants to get to the dining room.

IN, NEIGHBORS!

After getting settled in the Lodge, the kids visited a Yagua Indian the Lodge, the kids visited a Yagua Indian village.
The chief colored the kids'faces with red "paint"madefrom seeds.

Everyone tried shooting darts from a blowgun more than six feet (2m)long.
Best of all, they traded things brought from home for blowguns, dolls, grass skirts, and necklaces. 


A LIVING LAB

All week the kids explored the river and the rainforest.

While paddling down the Amazon in canoes, they learned that the river contains more species (kinds) of fish than Atlantic Ocean.

By catching some of those fish in a net, Jake made another discovery.
" These are the same kinds of tropical fish I have in my aquarium at home! " he said.

On one hike, the kids learned some of the jungle's medical secrets.
For example, when some of the native people get bad cuts, they force ants with huge jaws to bite both sides of the wound.
The ants' jaws lock and hold the skin together like stitches until the cut heals.

" Gross ! " Rebecca said when she heard that. " I'd rather go to the emergency room !"

By hunting for taranturas, butterflies, and foot-long walking sticks, the kids learned a lot about nature walking sticks, the kids learned a lot about nature.

But exploring the canopy walkway was the trip's high pointーin more ways than one.   

 
(つづく)  


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