Everyone Has Something to Hide Except Bryan and his Monkey...Today was another exciting day of fun and exploration. We saw Capuchin monkeys, boa constrictors, turtles, wooly monkeys, all sorts of birds, and beyond.
When we were hanging out with the monkeys (pictured above), one of the monkeys stole one of my program mate's glasses. He took his glasses right off of his head and then climbed high in the tree. There, the monkey seemed to be joking around -- he held up the glasses to his face (upside down) and appeared to be trying out the glasses for himself. After about two minutes of this, it seems as if he decided the glasses were not very valuable to him and he proceeded to try and break them. Lucky for Nick (the owner of the glasses), the monkey only bent them instead of breaking them, and Nick was able to lure the monkey down the tree with a hard-boiled egg.
Later in the day, we learned about some of the local pottery-making processes and we drank some chicha. Chicha is essentially fermented yuca plant. It tasted just okay.
When we got back to Cotococha, I spent the remainder of the evening reading.
One of the relaxing parts of our day was that we had about 3 hours in total just cruising down the river on our canoe.
