this baby ocelot the hotel is trying to reintroduce to the wild followed us for a good part of our intro walk. oopsy. it was so cute and attention-seeking but we were warned that it was vicious (having bit our guide last month :/) and you know how nasty infected cat bites can get. shudder. but the trail was super manageable, it felt a bit like bukit*timah hill even! and i liked how our guide tailored it to our pace and interests. upon learning that i was a medic, and the other youngling at the lodge (it was basically the mister and i, a lovely canadian lady who didn't look a day over 30, and 8 almost-octogenarians...) was a GP, he took it upon himself to point out every single plant with medicinal value. which was good fun as we tried to think about pharmaceutical compounds that went into making the meds, and got into big debates about big pharma and its exploitation of ecuadorian resources. such nerds, i know.
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