Getting to Explorer's Inn

The boat ride to Explorer's Inn took 4 hours. And yet I wasn't bored. The vegetation lining the river was what you'd expect - lush, tropical forest - and it was so different from what I'm used to in Canada, I was trying to take it all in. We saw oropendola nests, which was cool. And loads of birds flying around, which I didn't get photos off. There were lots of colourful and conspicuous birds, which was nice. I'm used to boring conspicuous birds, or small colourful secretive birds... so it was nice to be able to SEE brightly-coloured / cool birds. We were always on the look out for cool mammals like capibarras which are the world's largest rodents, but we didn't see any.
When we got to Explorer's Inn, we had to walk up recently made wooden stairs.. which was a little scary. As we were walking the path from the cliff to the lodge, I could hear a really obnoxious bird. I looked around a bit, and up above the path was a Scarlet Macaw, which is only my favourite bird ever, so that was pretty cool.
We got into the lodge and were given some lunch. Peruvian food is weird. Lunch was fried cauliflower (i think) and beets served with mayo on top, among other things... Kyle got my cauliflower, I got his beets. it worked out well. Explorer's Inn really liked their beets with mayo. So weird. OK I'm not going to get into E.I. food, because I think I could waste a whole blog on it.

Yup, more photos posted today.
the picture in this post is 2 macaws I saw within a few minutes of getting to the lodge. These ones are Red-and-green Macaws, not Scarlet Macaws.