Friday 21st to Saturday 29th July 2006: COLOMBIA, Leiticia

After a short flight (hour and half) from Bogota we arrived in the Amazonas and Leiticia, happy to be back in a tropical climate and eager to experience all the surrounding rainforest has to offer. Touching down at the airport gave us some idea of the vastness of the Amazonas as all we could see was miles and miles of jungle. The airport had literally been ´cut out´of the jungle - when landing it looked liked the wings of the plane would hit the trees!

Leaving the airport we met a recommended (from our Footprint South America Guidebook) local guide called Daniel, a lovely man who organised and arranged our tours of the jungle and rivers. After being offered lots of different options we agreed on taking a three day jungle tour and a one day river trip.

Visiting the Amazon has also been a lifelong dream of Oliver´s so everthing we experienced in this time had an extra special feel to it as we were finally "living the dream".