After another early morning wakeup (almost getting use to them) we headed out on the 30 mile ride back to the airport. I am fairly certain that riding in the taxi is much more dangerous than the actual flying over the jungle we are doing. Our first flight of the day took us to Suriname where we got held up for a while. We actually had to fly to one airport to pay fees before we could fly to the one that actually had Avgas. From there we jumped on over to French Guiana. We wanted to cover more ground today but we lost time in Suriname, we lost an hour because we were now in a different time zone and the next leg was 3 hours long. Putting all those things together meant we would still be flying after the sun went down and there was no way we were going to do that over the Amazon. This entire day we flew over jungle. I probably subconsciously checked the engine instruments 5,000 times to make sure we weren't having any issues that would force a landing attempt. Overall it was a pretty long day and we were hoping for a good hotel to sleep at. The airport seemed nice and we had had good luck with the French but the town in French Guiana was awful. The only good hotels were full so after about an hour of walking around, we found a place to stay. It was about 105 degrees in the room but it was shelter I guess.
Places like this look like long runways after 5 hrs of nothing but solid jungle
A small river in the jungle
Starting to get some hills
Some of the first signs of clear-cutting
Still haven't figured out what you are supposed to do here
