The first day of our small expedition into the Amazon was kayaking. Somehow I thought that by being in a boat I’d manage to stay relatively dry. Not so… as soon as I sat down in the kayak (which was already mostly filled with water) I was soaked. This coupled with the fact that it rained for much of the day (who’d have thought there’d be rain in the Amazon?) made it a thoroughly wet day. But paddling through the rivers that make up the Amazon was cool. But, the really neat parts were the moments when we were going through flooded portions of the jungle and weaving around mangroves. We stopped for lunch with some parrots but for the most part we set a pretty aggressive pace that left me pretty beat by the time we got back.

After a much needed shower we were pretty hungry so naturally we decided to walk to Brazil for lunch. After searching in vain for some pizza we ended up at a Chinese/Peruvian restaurant which was… about as good as it sounds. However, our expedition redeemed itself on the way back with a stop at a place that I think was called the “Legends of Rock” Bar. That’s what we called it anyway. It was a cool place that played American rock music videos. At some point we ended up at some other tiny Leticia bar but after such a long day we all called it a night pretty early.