Michael goes Grubbing

Michael and I spent our week-long vacation in Iquitos, Peru. Iquitos is the largest city in the world inaccesible by land. You must go by boat or plane. We flew in and spent a day in the city before heading out the Muyuna Lodge, three hours upriver from Iquitos. There, we were overwhelmed with the wilderness of the Amazon River and Jungle. We saw tons of bird species, three-toed sloths, iguanas, two fer-de-lances, an amazon tree boa and some spectacled caimen. Our guide, Rafael, was fantastic! I even got to play some soccer with the local villagers AND scored a goal. It was a wonderful week, and I'm so glad Michael and I got to do it together!!
In the video Michael is eating a grub worm that our guide macheted out of a dead tree trunk. I've gotta give him credit too, because it looked disgusting! The locals take the grubs home for their babies to suck on because it's believed that eating the grub worms protects the babies from bronchitis and other lung infections. In the video, Rafael takes out the intestines before Michael eats the worm because the intestines are bitter. Yes, the worm is still alive when Michael bites its head off. AND I love the disgusted look of Nat, a friend we met on the trip, as Michael tells us about the grub.

Bon Apetite!