The jungle is so cool! It`s like the safari ride at Disneyland except real. There are soooo many kinds of butterflies of all different sizes and colors, and luckily no snakes yet. Dan, Sammy, and I went to San Gil, which is supposed to be the adventure capital of Colombia, and so logically we went on an 'adventure trip.' I thought it sounded a bit lame at first, but, silly me, I forgot we're in Colombia where no one is afraid of following safety laws or getting sued...i.e. it was SUCH a sweet trip.

First, we all shared this local, hard cider drink, that is literally just water and sugar that is left to ferment. Apparently you get rum if you distill this cider. Then we explored a cave that indigenous people used to live in, that you had to crawl in to, and there were parts inside where we had to wade through really dark water (creepy). There were TONS of bats, and for a while we sat in the complete darkness so the bats would fly around. They never hit us (cause of their bomb sonar navigation obvs) but they got so close that you could feel the wind they made as they flew by your face. There was also a part in the cave that seemed to be made completely of clay mud, and our guide told us to cover ourselves with it because it's good for your skin (like when you get a mud bath at the spa??). I couldn't tell if he was joking or not, but he covered himself in it so we just kind of followed along. I've probably never been so dirty in my life.

After we came out of the cave we had the next 4 hours to hike down a river bed through the jungle. So we climbed down these huge, moss-covered rocks, swung from tree vines, and walked through the river where it was calm enough, and then when we got to waterfalls, we repelled down them with ropes, or jumped down them if they weren´t too high. Right before the first jump that we came to, our guide goes ''make sure you jump feet first, because it is not very deep, so you need to be sure you will hit the bottom with your feet.''

Our guide, Miguel, was a Colombian who lived in London for the past 10 years or something and spoke really good English. He brought some bocadillos for us to eat on the trip, which is crystalized guava wrapped in banana leaf, and sooo good. Anyway we could just throw the banana leaves into the jungle to decompose, at which point Miguel gave us an impassioned speech about how crazy it is that we know how to use natural wrappings like leaves and yet we are still using plastic and styrofoam. ''People say they care about the environment, but no, no they dont care or they would do something!'' He also brought along some tobacco which he snorted right before we headed out, claiming that he uses it everyday since it cleans out his respiratory system!