Into The Jungle....

Hey, umm wrote this last week but kinda forgot to press post, soooo read as if was added last week! ;)
So got up early Saturday morning, after having spent the previous evening having a few tragos with the fam! ;) And playing some cards aswell obvs.
Had to get a trole bus to the main bus terminal and then we had like 5 mins to buy tickets and run and find the bus as we decided to just get the next one leaving! Btw there were  of us who went in the end. Anyways, is a really pretty ride to Tena, having said that being 5 1/2 hours I did sleep the majority of it!
Arrived in pouring rain, so went and got us some lunch at ´happy pollo´! :) Was actually pretty good though not really big enough. Then by the time we´d finished thankfully it had finished raining so we headed into town to find somewhere to stay and after trying a few places, settled on a nicish one where we could all fit in one room, that was down by the river. Next up was to find a tour agency for the next day. Some people wanted to do more trekking and others wanted to do less and maybe go see some other things, so we settled on a half day trek followed by lunch and then heading to some waterfalls. We were really glad in the end that we chose the company we did as it was run by this really nice couple and everything was awesome. It cost us $35 for the day which was a lil less than the average. So we rolled up to the office at 8 the next morning and were picked up in the truck and driven to their jungle lodge (which is actually also their house, and if we´d known we couldve spent the night there aswell!) But was a really nice drive as was heading more into the jungle about an hour out of Tena. This house also had its own swimming pool which was pretty damn cool! So get there and get given our wellies to go walking in, and the guy also brings out two really cute monkeys that live around the house, and then not so great lil baby tarantulas :( Luckily they couldn´t find the ones that are supposed to be as big as the boots we were wearing! They also had these two really ugly dogs, though they were kinda cute at the same time! lol
Anyways, we got 3 1/2 hours of trekking, which included several explanations of medical properties of plants/trees we were passing which was quite interesting. Then we got given like a mini lunch of snadwiches, apples and biscuits. Also highlight was getting to swing on this massive vine like something outta Tarzan! Was totally awesome! ;) Was lil surreal like being there and thinking wow this is the amazon, but the views were pretty insane!
Then we had lunch back at the jungle house and had half an hour to then chill in the pool before heading out again towards the waterfalls. Also got to stop off in this town we passed through where they have ´monkey beach´and anyone who knows me is aware of my love of monkeys so that was awesome as there were so many of them there, and they´re really clever how they nick food off people, and we could totally see this one monkey eyeing up this guys cigar! lol Anyways then was only another 10 mins or so to the beginning of the walk to the mini waterfalls. Took maybe 30/45 mins to get up there but was really cool. We got to like jump off the rocks into the pool at the bottom and you could get behind the waterfall aswell! Was an amazing day all in all. Then we all decided to ride out back on the way home in the truck so got a better view of everything.
Then totally random, as we were riding into town, I saw this bus and then like double took, and was like ís there a dog riding the roof?´lol and we were just all like how did it actually get up there?!
So yeh we got back maybe around 6 and were all pretty knackered by then. So just kinda chilled, checked buses for next day then wennt back to out pizza restaurant for dinner. Lady told us it´d be a 20 min wait, but considering night before had taken an hour and this night was even busier we figured it might be a while longer! lol
Also, there are street dogs here everywhere and when me and Tim went back to the hostel to get water before dinner, one of them like pushed passed us and made it into the hostel. Then everyone was like shouting at us to get it out whilst they all hid inside and stared out the windows! So finally got it out and then like the owner guy properly kicked it as it left and then started chucking rocks at it which seemed a lil extreme! Then this same stupid dog followed us into the restaurant before it got kicked out, then was waiting for us afterwards and followed us when we went to buy snacks. So then we were like well theres no way we can let it in again as it was still following us as we went back to the hostel, so Tim volunteered to carry on walking and got it to follow him whilst we all sprinted inside then slammed the gate closed. Dog realising what had happened was like jumping up against the gate so i had to lock it to make sure it didnt push it open.Eventually Tim also managed to escape crazy dog and get inside aswell!
Anyways, next morning went to nice little cafe next door for breakfast where they had these awesome stuffed pancakes with banana and chocolate! mmm :) Then we had planned to visit this ´park´in the town where they apparently had lots of animals, etc. However we were told that as theres no bridge to get there, u have to shout accross to the island, hope someone hears you and then rows across in a canoe to take you there. Unfortunately it seemed no-one heard us! So we ended up taking a bus home around 10.30 and got back home around 5ish or so Monday afternoon.
Was a really cool weekend trip as didn´t think i´d get to the jungle, and even though was a little shorter than ideal, was really fun! :)