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Tarantulas in a jungle adventure

18 Feb – 21 Feb, 2005

Las Amazonas. Trip in to the jungle, from Puerto Ayacucho. Sleeping in hammocks in the jungle. Tarantulas, and swimming in rivers with piranhas. We even got to see tropical tetra fish, almost identical to the ones at home in our tank! Spent one night with a group of 3 families of indigenous people. These people are the experts at finding tarantulas!

Richard with parrot
Richard makes a new friend.

Tarantula
Eeeewwwww!!!!! 25 cm tarantula. The most asked for photo, funny enough. We didn’t actually get out a ruler – didn’t really want to get that close. Luckily, these spiders rarely just appear; you actually have to be looking for them and entice them out of their holes.



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