Day 11 Giant Otters

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Posada Amazonas

Wake up at 4 a.m.
Breakfast
Leave lodge at 5 a.m.
Walk to river dock, river boat ride, 30 minute walk to lake
Tres Chimbadas Lake on “catamaran”
  River otter family fishing
  Striated heron. Hoatzin “stinky bird”, Amazon kingfisher
  Fishing for piranha
  Capybaras – world’s largest rodent
Rain

Napping
Lunch

Medicinal Garden

More rain
Dinner

Night walk
Caiman
Small
Black Chicken spider
Blue-crowned motmot

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