A travel vlog by Nate and Kara Buchanan documenting Day 2 of an Amazon luxury cruise (uploaded May 11, 2017). The chunk covers their morning on the boat (suite #3), a dinghy excursion on the Urapa River where they saw squirrel and woolly monkeys, grey/pink dolphins, and yellow-rumped cassiques, and a mid/afternoon hike on the Cazuela (Caswella) Trail guided by Juanito. The guide explains local ecology (seed dispersal by squirrel monkeys) and an informal health indicator: visible monkeys suggest low local risk of mosquito-borne diseases. A notable wildlife encounter includes a red-tail boa estimated at 3–4 meters. The content is conversational and observational with local naturalist commentary.
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May 11, 2017.
The Urapa River.
Suite number three.
Juanito.
Cazuela (also spelled Caswella) Trail.
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It is our first morning aboard the Delphine. Number three in our gorgeous suite. I slept like a rock last night. The boat did not move. It was crazy. It was like we're in a hotel.
So today we are starting the day by getting on the dinghies and going to explore the Urapa River. We actually already passed on one of the tours this morning. There was optional bird watching at 6, but because our drone seems to be working now, I took that opportunity to fly the drone and and get some shots during sunrise. Let's go get on the boat.
Hello.
Good morning.
We're going to start to do another adventure.
Perfect.
Squirrel monkeys. A German call a dead head monkey because face looks very much like a human skull. Very important for the ecosystem because they are a seed dispersed. They disperse a lot of seeds.
So far we've seen squirrel monkeys, gray and pink dolphins, which are extremely difficult to capture on camera, and these really cool birds called yellow rumped cassiques. They make these huge nests and they make like four or five, but they only use one and they make them near wasp nests and they kind of protect each other. It's been super fun.
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We just got to see some woolly monkeys finally up close. They were right on the bank. We got to watch a mom and a baby climb up and down this tree and they were hanging from their tail and eating stuff. It was so much fun. And you know, it's good when your guide is taking pictures too.
So we have a welcome twin.
Thank you very much.
Hope you enjoy it here in the Amazon rainforest.
Thank you.
Have a good time. Hello. Welcome back. Yellow white Tomato.
It's about 10:30 and we just got back from our boat ride. I love getting greeted with welcome drinks of random fruits that I have no idea what they are, but they're delicious. We were on the boat for like two hours. We saw so much that I had to take notes in Nate's phone because I didn't want to forget anything that he said. It was awesome.
Probably the coolest thing that we learned on the entire trip was about monkeys and diseases that mosquitoes carry. So we learned that not only is seeing monkeys a lot of fun and really neat in the wild, but it's also a really good sign that there's no malaria, no dengue fever, no Zika. Because if there are, since monkeys have similar DNA to humans, the monkeys will move to a different area. So if you're in an area where you see monkeys, that's a really good sign that there are no mosquito carrying illnesses. Is all the things that you're scared of when you come to the Amazon, if you see monkeys, it's a good sign.
We're still drowning ourselves in bug spray just in case.
But that made me feel really good.
Yeah, for sure.
And we have about an hour to just enjoy the boat.
Pretty much our room. We're never leaving this place.
A toast on the Peruvian way, everybody.
Cheers.
So the reason that we just had the big toast is because we are officially at the mouth of the Amazon river. So it's where two rivers converge together and it's the start of the Amazon river where it's going to float east for 4,000km before it ultimately ends up in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil.
It's now about 3 o' clock and it's time for our afternoon excursion. It's actually raining today pretty good outside, which I'm like weirdly excited about. It seems like we should go on a hike in the rain in the rainforest.
We have about a two hour hike. The trail is called the Caswella Trail.
Sounds about right.
But it's spelled like casual trail. Maybe it translates to that. Which sounds like it's going to be pretty easy. Maybe that's a terrible translation. But it is the Amazon jungle so.
I think it's going to be awesome. It's easy in the Amazon. Also if we sound or look a little bit different. We're filming on the GoPro since it's raining really hard outside and that's where we're about to go.
Our local guide in here. His name is Juanito.
Welcome to the Cazual trail.
I hope doing the circuit. I hope find some scenes and you really love it.
Oh no.
We're starting the Cazuela Trail. Our guide's name is Juanito. He's local and he's going to be taking us to the trail and showing us the animals. Hopefully we learned that this isn't really part of the reserve. So nobody's here to put protect it from people chopping down trees or killing the animals. But it's locally protected so it's like his job since he lives here to keep people from doing, which I think is really cool.
We are walking on a kind of terra film.
Oh.
Look. Take a picture. This is the Tarantula.
Perfecto. This is called Pink to tarantula. Okay, thank you Juanito. Welcome.
Guided us all with these super handy.
Matching ponchos and rubber boots. So we're all set for the rain. This is no problem.
Yeah, same kind of rainforest.
Oh wow. This, this is the. This is the. The poisonous one. Huh? This is full ground.
It's tiny.
This is full ground, guys. This is called red backed poison frog.
Oh gosh. That's huge.
Can't get much closer. Can't get much closer.
It's. It's big.
It's big. That's the biggest thing about crazy.
There is a huge v. Sweet brook. This is a red team horse is right there. The red tail ball. Where we running? Get ready to run.
You'll be famous all around the world.
You know that.
Came across the biggest snake that I've ever seen in real life. It is a red tail boa somewhere between 3 to 4 meters long. And I know like the camera doesn't do a good job of giving it perspective, but it's like seriously as fat as my head. It is massive and so cool.
