The hut was like one of those traditional tribal huts, it was a big circular shape, had a large cone roof made out of palm leave, it was raised on stilts, better still we were the first ones to be using it, it hadn't been made that long and we were having the first ceremony that night. There was a family living in a smaller hut near it, they were sort of caretakers of it, they kept it clean, in use and made sure nobody else would break in and use it.
We were given a brief tour around, introduced to the family, met the local pet, 'Martin' the monkey. A big annoyance to me, the fact that I was really pissed off with the amount of mosquitoes was made worse by the fact that the hut was completely surrounded, day and night every day, bollocks, I was already looking forward to getting bitten some more. Ludwig, Kucy, the daughter and myself went for a swim, sort of! When I say swim, it was unintentional, I fell in. For some unknown reason, I decided to go out on one of the canoes, the sort that had been carved out of a big log, fully clothed and with no experience on this sort of canoe. Of course it wasn't going to end well, for a start I was fully clothed, ready for a disaster, I had no experience and I just got in a drifted out. Then I fell in, got absolutely soaked, head to toe. My shoes were like buckets of water and my phone was dripping wet, the weird thing was that some buttons were broken but now they worked? I felt so stupid, I had been there for about half an hour and had already made a complete fool of myself, at least it meant that I had no problem jumping straight back in, going for a swim in the murky brown water and heading out on the canoe to go up and down the river. I was so wet I didn't care about falling in again. It was so humid here, like nothing I have ever experienced before, it was very similar to being in a sauna, just no steam, just very hot damp air. We must have spent at least the next hour swimming around in the water and rowing up and down the river, we entered some parts that really looked as though a crocodile should jump out and bite us but it didn't happen, apparently they don't really come out during the day.