Story from FrankieM

After a few weeks in Peru, we headed to the Amazon. We had walked two hours along a boardwalk in the middle of the Amazon jungle to get to Sandoval lake. We started by rowing slowly down a small stream with cayman’s eyes bobbing up and down menacingly. We began on a small rowing boat and were rowing idyllically around the lake. An energetic Peruvian tourist decided to take over the rowing. A few meters in I felt a sharp pain. Seconds later, I look down to my legs and there are tens of inch long wasps all over me and stinging. I later discovered these wasps were newly discovered and killed spiders. It turns out he had rowed us into a wasp’s nest. The small boat began heavily rocking and he stood up shouting “ayuda, por favour, mis amigos”. We were trapped in the bushes due to strong winds with the options of: the marshy land with cobras on, the boat with giant wasps and the lake with caymans in. We waited until the wind died down but the headache and pain did not until a cocktail. Glad I wasn’t allergic - inserted picture of my hand post sting!