Jungle (Part 3), Baños, Coast.

Here is a little photo journey to get us up to date:

Bugs:

Here is a Leaf Bug. It is actually a mantis so it has those cool front arms that look like they are praying for a mate to come along and get his head chopped off.

This was the most gnarly bug we saw. It is called and Amblipgid and it looks like a spider but it is actually more closely related to a scorpion. It is HUGE. The six small legs and pinchers make it easily as big as a softball while the long front legs are probably about 10" long each. Also, this thing doesn't crawl, it moves really quick. When I was taking this picture it jumped at me to scare me back. Evidently they don't really bother people at all, actually they hunt things like cockroaches which makes them good in my book.

Here is a some barney we found in the jungle. It's a pretty agressive environtment out there. I think I got about a 6th degree sunburn on my legs from rafting. I had a milky way quantity of mosquito bites and ultimately left the jungle with what looked like a big bite on my arm that ended up swelling up my fore-arm to look like Popeye. I went to the doctor to check it out and he said it was cutaneous Anthrax! Dang.

After the jungle we headed to Baños for a few days of biking and hiking in the mountains and bathing in the thermal baths at night. After Baños we took a 10 hour overnight bus to Canoa on the coast. The bus ride was lame but the coast is awesome.