The Amazon rainforest contains three different environments; the forest environment, wetlands environment and the river environment.In the first week we were in the Amazon rainforest dad nearly got eaten by an anaconda, just missed him thankfully. The area surrounded in yellow is the Amazon Rainforest. The Amazon rainforest is very wet in some places but dry in others. There is always wet dew on the leaves close to the ground and the canopy has the sun to absorb the dew from the night before. There is always noise surrounding, but when you get to the spot where you think the noise was coming from there would be nothing there. Which I think was really weird.
On our hike we had a leader that would be at the front of our little party and he would hack in to the growth with a machete to provide a path. Every second we would swat mosquitoes that have landed on us. We wore lots of cloths in case a plant we touched or a snake that might bite us was poisonous. We wore leech socks and had our faces covered so that we would not have to swat our faces if some mosquitoes or leeches had gotten onto our skin. There were huge termite nests clinging to trees,
brilliantly coloured mushrooms, massive snails on enormous trees, we drank water that had collected in huge quantities in palm leaves and we ate some fruit from a chocolate tree, it tasted nothing like chocolate.On the first night we camped we were with a native tribe. We built our hut out of sticks and leaves which were water proof. The next morning we woke to hear the sound of chimpanzees in the trees foraging for fruit.
After a week of trekking in the forest we headed down to the water and started kayaking down the Amazon River.
We looked at the river bank and saw all these different types of animals looking at us in odd ways. The first night on the Amazon River was different because we slept in our big kayaks. You would always get woken up if a river wave hit the kayak. 
I felt unstable in our kayak, I was afraid that we were going to tip in to the water. The next morning on the river on purpose I stuck a piece of cloth in to the water and then quickly took it back out. As I I did so there was a school of piranha’s hovering just under the water. I told dad to have a look but they were gone by the time he did. About mid afternoon a school of Amazon River dolphin swam by, they were making a lot of noise as they splashed and flipped about in the air when they jumped. I thought it was amazing until I saw the scar on our guides arm, it looked horrible, he had been bitten long ago. We saw some natives in their own dugout canoes. They didn’t look at all safe or stable so I was glad that we were in kayaks and not those. After that, we got out of our kayaks and headed for the wetlands I was pretty excited about it all, but when we got there I fell into an enormous mud puddle. Even though it was wet I still enjoyed it like I was not even wet. 
There was plenty of wild life. I was pretty lucky to see a baby tamarind; it was really cute with its massive mother. We saw some Amazon natives collecting water and I thought it would not be clean but they cleaned it by filtering it through some kind of leaf. It was pretty amazing. 
On our last day in The Amazon our guide told us that we were very, very lucky to see what we had seen in the day that he had been with us. I asked dad where we were going next, hoping it was going to be as good as the Amazon Rainforest.
