Pictures from Peru, part 4.1
This isn't from the trip with my sister, this is a spider in our room when I went on a weekend trip with the carpenter and a few friends. Which isn't that bad, you might think, but a) it was a big one, and b) a few days after that I went to the hospital to get vaccinated against yellow fever, and there was a poster of that spider taped to the wall declaring it highly venomous. In fact there's no antidote, I just looked that up, and 3-4% of the people bitten by it die.
A spider net. Not of one single spider, mind you, but hundreds of small ones who build a net together and share it. A very sturdy one, too.
Another one we saw on the nightly trip.
FYI, that is not my hand and could never be. The tarantula, which is one of the four or five that live on the premises of the jungle lodge, wouldn't come out, so our guide poked it with a stick. (Sorry, couldn't help that reference.) And then later, our other guide showed us the last tarantula that lives right under the roof of the shelter our group had met earlier that night. My sister refused to ever pass below that roof again.