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Giant snake sighting off the scales

By Danielle Ramaekers
NZ Herald·
8 mins to read

On an eco-tour in the Bolivian Amazon, Danielle Ramaekers went in search of an anaconda, then found one where it shouldn't have been.

Adventurous travellers know that when nature's involved, there are no guarantees, which is why I'm staring at a seven-metre anaconda where I least expect to see one.

This bundle of lethal scales is curled up where it shouldn't be. Not in the jungle, but in the small Bolivian town of Santa Rosa de Yacuma; a place where

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