We woke up early and docked in the village Nauta. This was a real experience. The biggest town we visited on our water trip besides Iquitos. We visited the market an incredible display of food, just like I imagined it was in this country in the early twenty’s before the invention of the refrigerator. Fish and chicken and fruit everywhere and surprisingly enough not that many flies. The people were of the friendliest nature you can ever imagine. Smiles everywhere. We also visited the town. Then we went back to the boat while another boat was making its weekly visit to the village. This boat I understand is owned by this village and goes weekly to Iquitos where people make their major purchases. I have seen from clothing to basic staples like rice and bricks for construction being hauled out of this boat. We took lots of pictures and sailed away to another small village where our crew had arranged for a private showing of their manufactured goods. It is amazing for a group of eight, that’s how many tourists our boat was bringing.  They displayed on excess of a hundred booths, stand tables, mats on the floor, all full of their baskets and mats and other manufactured items. We purchased almost all our souvenirs at this place and then the kids seeing that we were in the mood to buy formed kind of a ring around us hoping to sell us something. It was quite a spectacle and I hope the pictures will give some idea how wonderful this experience was. Following this wonderful giant Amazon mall shopping experience we were invited to a local resident by one of the crew member to show off a funny looking animal the size of a pig with an elongated mouth and a huge nose. It had hair as if it had been at a beauty salon that very afternoon. We went back to the boat, had dinner, and then went on our last evening excursion of the trip. We got into the launch and headed toward a lake specifically to research frogs. It was to be a frog night. We reached the lake and drove the boat through a floating vegetation about three foot high inhabited by an incredible population of frogs. The singing was so loud and repetitive multiplied by thousands you get almost the effect of an orchestra. I missed having a tape recorder. We then headed about 50 feet away from the banks of the lake and we were all looking at eyes in the night. We all had flood lights, and we were told that we could spot animals very easily. All this after we collected several frogs at the previous stop. What looked like a baby alligator but failed to capture him attracted us even though we made many attempts. One member of our group at that time spotted what she thought were snake eyes on a planter on a tree. We were surprised to see an 8-foot boa fall by our boat at which point our watchful guide was fast to grab and bring in. We then looked for the companion of this beast because those animals live in pairs. The native guide Renee climbed a tree next to one where the snake was lodged and with a long wooden stick started poking in the snake’s nest. It took a while but the snake really jumped into the water. At which point our guide, Bill, grabbed the snake out of the water and was also careful at avoiding a major accident when the snaked grabbed onto his chest and because of his pulling it away he suffered only a minor scratch. With such a load of prey, we then headed for more discoveries but none came our way. We went back to the boat at about 10pm and went to bed for our last night to sleep under the stars of the Amazon.