in the Colombian Amazon (unbelieveable nature)

Good morning guys and welcome to Colombia. Over the next four days I'm going to be exploring the Colombian Amazon. I didn't even really know that you could get to the Amazon from here but you can. We've just flown down to Leticia for about $25 from Medellin and from here we can explore the Amazon and go along the Amazon River. But first I want to show you something pretty cool. Right now, because of where Leticia is, Brazil is a few yards that way and Peru is a few yards that way. So I can just walk straight over to Brazil, like literally. I'm pretty much in Brazil and then just down that road is Peru. That's pretty cool but now let's go see the Amazon. So yeah we got Leticia and Colombia, that's Brazil, this way to Peru. Okay this is cool. We're heading to the boat now and we just found this walkway. Yeah we've got to walk and find where we're starting from but there's this big walkway built next to all the local houses. Very interesting to see. You can see they're all built on stilts just for when the flooded season comes in. Okay and this is where we're going, to the public boat. That's bubbly. All right we just found our guy. We arranged this whole thing online by the way. It was a four day, three night river trip with like hotels and cabins each night for $200. So I'm completely unsponsored by the way but if anyone's interested I'll put a link for that in the description below. It looked like pretty good value and got no idea really what to expect but it should be cool. A bit of madness to get on. Very much hurry up and wait but we got on and now we're heading down the river. Right after an intense journey, it wasn't intense, it was in a boat but after a long journey we are here. It took about two and a half hours. We just arrived to a place called Puerto Nerino. We're going to be staying here for the next couple of days while we explore the area. Okay so later on in this video we were lucky enough to see real macaws, sloths, monkeys and even pink dolphins. One thing we didn't see though was sharks, surf sharks and that's why I'm going to tell you about them now instead. Stick with me. Surf shark is a VPN i.e a virtual private network that encrypts your online information to keep it safe and allows you to mask your location to appear as if your device is from anywhere in the world. Now why would you want to do this? Well personally I use VPNs all the time and most people I know that travel continuously do as well. It can keep your information safe by encrypting it as soon as you upload it which prevents people from stealing your data if you're using a public network. You could use it to find cheaper flights and cheaper accommodation by searching from a different location. Certain websites will charge you based on where you're searching from and that's a way of getting around that but the way I personally use it is when I'm not in the Amazon with literally zero Wi-Fi. I like to chill in between trips and watch some Netflix or watch some iPlayer and the only way to get BBC iPlayer outside of the UK is by using a VPN to appear as if you're from the UK and the same with Netflix. If you use a VPN then you get different shows to what you would get in your home country. If you're interested in checking out then click the link in the description below and use the code JORD for 83% off plus an extra three months for free. Now back to the Amazon. This is our little cabin and we've got the family room here but not bad. It's really rustic but I think everything is here and this is really cool because you can hear all the jungle around you. We're only just dumping our stuff now because we're about to head straight out and go on a night tour. It should be cool. Let's go see what we can find. So we're heading out into the jungle now with our guide who is from the Irumaikuchi group which I've just been told they are hunters around here that live off of the land in the Amazon. Just as we come out now the rain begins but you're in rainforests. Who cares? Hopefully we'll still get to see some cool things. Okay it came down a bit so we're actually taking refuge for a second where our guide lives. So this is a little house in the jungle. We just found a tarantula. You can see that. Oh okay it's gone. How does he see them all? Oh oh my god it's huge. The insects are munching down. We are properly in the jungle now. We're actually... I can't see where I'm going at all now so I'm going to stop. We're actually out here for two hours. It's already pitch black and we've got a two-hour trek and we're just looking for tarantulas, bugs, insects, anything we can find. Very cool. Apparently the tarantulas are like cats. You can really feel it on the end of it though. You know I thought that would happen. I was like oh my god he's going to climb up that script. I know I was wrong. It's a very painful bite apparently so our guide's going right up to it. Wellies were definitely necessary. Off the road. It's not dangerous. Okay and we are done for tonight. We just had a really good dinner after a really cool but really difficult hike. It was about three hours through the jungle and it was all slippy and dark but really cool because of everything we saw. Now we're going to get some rest because in the morning we're going out on a boat for another hike and I'm going to jump straight to that so see you in a sec. All right good morning guys. We just got off the boat and we have just landed in Peru. There's no real border here so we can just literally get the boat across and freely explore Peru now. We're going to be spending the whole morning here into the afternoon hiking around and checking out whatever is here to see but technically I'm in Peru. So one interesting side note I just asked because I mean these borders will be very difficult to enforce. You can cross quite freely between Peru and Brazil and Colombia here so I asked like did they try and enforce it in the pandemic in the early days of the lockdown and they said I mean they tried to the beginning but just gave up because everyone and all the indigenous communities have families and friends and jobs that span all those borders so it was kind of impossible to stop people crossing and in the end they just let everyone in this area just go between because the old ancestral borders would be completely different to the borders we have now. If you can see here where this water mark is right there that's how high the rain gets in a few months time. So right now it's at the beginning of the flooded season and in a few months the water will be up to that point so although the Peruvians are farming a lot here and we just walk past some papaya trees and other things they're in kind of a rush to use that little gap they can to farm get everything down before the flooded season comes and washes everything away. It's interesting because like you can come here I think in the dry season or the dryish season and the flooded season and see completely two different sides of the Amazon and he says that our guide just said that you come back here in a couple months and they'll be doing a boat through this area that we're walking on. We've just entered a local village here we've got a local guide to show us around so it's going to be interesting to see how the Peruvian side lives. Okay well Klaus found the puppies. Hello guys. Tiny. Oh wow yeah yeah it's climbing just there. Pretty perfect ending there we just found a whole family of sloths and the guides the local guide told me to get the drone up to try and see it so I did and we got that really cool shot. Apparently it doesn't disturb them. Now we're finished in Peru so I can say that I've been to Peru. Very cool morning and now we're heading back over to Colombia to get lunch. It's cool to be able to say that just popping back to Colombia for lunch. We're now about to head out to Lake Tarapoto. It's a little bit along this river and then we're going to be staying there tonight as well so hopefully we're going to see some things on the way. We should be able to see some dolphins maybe some of the arapaima pirarucus and apparently swim in the lake too. Should be cool. We've got our man here. Nice to meet you. And yeah let's do this. We're just getting some gasoline now. It seems like we've found dolphins. Oh yeah yeah. There he is. No I think I just got the end of it. Okay I stupidly don't have a lot of battery for this all I can tell you is right now we're surrounded by pink dolphins. I'm going to try and conserve it because it's really hard to get dolphins on video anyway but we're in the middle of of this little lake here and there's loads of pink dolphins around us. We've also got the chance to jump in now so we're right in the middle of the lake there's caimans here there's dolphins there's also some piranhas but apparently not the bitey type so we're gonna go jump in. Just fall. Fall gracefully. All right I'm not going in. You got dolphins? Nice. Okay. Okay well I'm not gonna go in with my camera but I'm gonna get in. We're back in but it's not easy. We just jumped off the boat to the Lake Tarapoto indigenous community. I think he said it was called Santa Clara. That's also where our guide grew up. He just met his little daughter at the dock. Yeah we're gonna have a little look around here before we go to where we're staying. She just found my dead cat microphone on top and likes it, wants to play with it. We just pulled up to this indigenous community here at Lake Tarapoto. I think it's called Santa Clara after swimming in the Amazon which was pretty darn cool and something I didn't think I'd get to do on this trip but yeah completely safe apparently and now you can see some guys playing football behind me. Put it in the mixer. Good hands. Watch your touch. Reminds me of Sunday league. We just arrived to our cabin where we're sleeping tonight and we're greeted by loads of dolphins in front of us. We've just been sat here with a beer watching dolphins from the shore and now we're getting the sunset. This is the perfect end to a great day. We've still got to jump back on the boat and go for dinner but I'm gonna finish this here and just enjoy tonight in this cabin sleeping next to the Amazon River. For now, thank you for watching and see you in the next one.