The Lost Girls have set out on their next great adventure, a five day journey through the Amazon Jungle. They first ride on a triple-decker boat, Amazon Queen, and look for the rumored piranhas in the water. The Lost Girls start their second day by going through the Canopy Walkway, one of the longest treetop pathways in the world. The narrow wooden boards were suspended more than a hundred feet in the air. the third day the guide, Cliver took them to meat a group of Yagua Indians. The Yagua Indians are best known for their expertise at blowgun hunting and the Lost Girls were going to watch and be taught to shoot tiny darts thirty feet and hit a small target. The Yagua rely solely from rain forest plants for theirwardrobes and create fabrics from the fibers of the aguaje palm and red dye (achiote) from the fruit of the Bixa orellana tree. The darts they used were small sticks with cottony fabric on the other end, when they hunt they dip the darts in curare, a fast-acting natural poison that paralyzes their prey. By the end of the day the girls learn how to shoot the blow-gun and at least hit the post it was on. The Yagua village also sell things because it keeps the locals from cutting down the rain forest for farmland or lumber. The final day the girls go to Monkey Island, home to eight different species of monkeys that are cared for and protected by a wildlife preservation project. By the end of the day they come back to their hostel with new bags of trinkets and knew knowledge. They practically collapse on their beds and contemplate about their great trip to the Amazon Jungle.
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