A proliferous bug that popluates warm climates is the infamous bed bug. Check out the carnage that they did on Jason's shoulder. Janice escaped with a minor number of bites. Incredulous as she is normally the one bitten.
Although they bite more than once leaving a line of bites behind, they don't itch as much as mosquitoes and are only really annoying in quantity.
After their attack on Jason we declared war and took their numbers down a bit, spending an hour hunting for them in the crevices in the bed frame. The hostel insisted that we move to a recently fumigated room after looking at Jason's shoulder, which was much better and we only got bitten by mosquitoes.
We're happier to be moving on to a cooler and hopefully more bug free climate in Bariloche.
Janice (from Mendoza)
P.S. The hostel where we were staying at picked up the war where we left off and fumigated our room. Hopefully we don't take any with us ........
Happy New Year!
ReplyDeleteToo bad about the altitude sickness and bed bugs, those little bugs are nasty. Hopefully you don't sleep with anymore of them.
Have an awesome start to 2011 J'n'J, we miss y'all.
Kevin and Karen
(K2)