Sacha Lodge was an amazing experience (thanks Nicolette and Stef for the recommendation!)and a real luxury during our budget tour around South America. We had been told that the jungle was a challenge after spending time at the Galapagos Islands where the animals sat up and asked you to take their picture. They were correct, the animals were very hard to find but luckily we had excellent guides who could spot an ant from a 100 metres (it did help that the ants were huge).When we arrived by canoe the vista was amazing and then in true rainforest style it started to rain and continued all night and the next morning. We went up the famous Sasha Canopy walk (40m high), and Adrienne held on so tight that she got rope burn but didnt cry like a little girl as expected. 
We went on night canoe trips, piranha fishing, many walks, a flying fox, and another tower up a huge Kapok Tree. We saw lots of different animals, including a snake (poisonous according to our guide), pigmy marmoset monkeys, squirrel monkeys, tamarin monkeys, a camine (which Adrienne then realised was an alligator), a tarantula and many other insects and birds. Sacha also has a butterfly house which houses 60 different types of butterflies. One of the most amazing types has camaflouge which looks like an owls eye underneath or a snake along the top side.
Unfortunately we didnt see any large cats or other predatory animals but these are very rare.Our local Quichuan guide was amazing, he was 56 with 13 or 15 children (the number kept changing) but looked 40 and showed us lots of medicinal plants and techniques for living in the jungle. He could make anything from the surrounding jungle using only a machete. Adrienne felt very safe with him and his machete but not with Phil and the canoe where the camine were!
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