Last week, my friends and I got to do something most people only dream of doing; we spent the better part of week living in the Amazon rainforest. To get to our jungle lodge, we took a plane from Lima to Iquitos, then a two hour van ride to a small town on the Amazon river, and then traveled over an hour by boat. It was a long journey, but it worth all of the long hours spent travelling because while I was there, I got to and see incredible things: riding in a small. motor powered canoe down the Amazon, hiking in the rainforest, swimming next to Amazonian pink dolphins, searching for alligators in a swamp with a flashlight, and holding several different animals including a sloth, a small alligator, and a giant frog the size of my head. I even ate a larva (video link here).