Topic: Peru
The jungle really is wonderful, but there are a number of annoyances that I couldn't't wait to be rid of.
1. Mosquito bites. I had bites all over my ankles which wasn't helped by the wellies rubbing against them.
2. The outside showers where your newly washed flesh (free of deet) gets ravaged immediately. The wet floor means your stuff gets wet and the cold water makes you shriek.
3. Ditto outside toilets. You wouldn't believe where I got bites!
4. The fact that you are always covered in chemicals - sunblock and deet and then (a new thing and a godsend) after bite to stop the stinging!
5. The fact that your towel never dries properly.
6. Holding a torch and trying to find things in your backpack inside the tent especially when you are in a hurry and Nicolas is outside barking you us to "come on!"
7. Walking to the bathroom in the dark through the woods.
8. Having to use your clothes (clean or dirty) for a pillow
9. Always losing the torch/deet/socks/contact lense pot
10. Trying to take contact lenses in and out by torchlight while you are being bombarded by mozzies and the ledge is crawling with ants.
11. Being too hot and sticky to get inside the damp sleeping bag and not knowing who used them last!
12. Having to pack every morning in a hurry
13. The mud that gets everywhere
14. The deet that gets everywhere. It melts plastic, stinks and stings existing bites and flavours all your food.
Sounds like I had a horrible time doesn't it? I actually, I really enjoyed it but it was a very full on jungle experience and the only way you can appreciate it. Very few tourists visit this particular part and I'm glad as it means it is still very unspoiled.
Posted by jo mynard
at 12:01 AM
