Ecuador – Snakes Alive

Quito

When we went to the VIVARIUM we saw lots of snakes and lizards. It was really exciting, we even saw a Caiman which are little alligators. Dad said  we would go to the Amazon Jungle and I was very excited to go. We saw a frog bigger than Dad’s fist – it was astonishing. We saw the boa constrictor – it was 3 metres long. I was not afraid of it but we heard that the anaconda would grow up to 10 metres long which is a record.
The lady said you can go and after four o’clock you can come back and have the boa constrictor around your neck. Dad said would you like it around your neck and I said yes please and that’s what we did. When we came back we all sat in a big room and we got to touch it and then she said all the people that want it around  their neck stay here and all the people who don’t leave the room. When it was my turn she put it around my neck.

It felt scaly, heavy, grippy and it squeezed me. I loved it.