The ones we had in Singapore, in our very own backyard, were a foot long. But then, we also had wolf spiders like whoa, and these webspinners who were IsweartoGod six inches from leg tip to leg tip. Their webs were five or six feet in height. I nearly walked into one. Cured me forever of just walking into bamboo groves. And that stuff was nothing. Further north, up in southeast Asia proper, they have much larger spiders, as well as scorpions that're up to six inches long.
I met one of these in Turkey, inside a building, in fact.
Short version: File cabinet: 1, Scary thing with 100 legs: 0. The crunch sound that marked that critter's demise still haunts me to this day.
I also saw (and disposed of with a heavy thing on the end of a long pole) my first scorpion in that building.
Yet my tent, which was built on a soccer field and infested with field mice, was safer, having not encountered scary crawly things nor scorpion baddies the entire 6 months there (though coming home and finding mouse turds IN MY BED was a unique(ly disgusting) experience)
Eww...gross. And I was planning on eating breakfast after seeing that.
Anyhow, I guess you have scary creepy crawlers just about anywere, and not just Peru. I'm not striking it off my list because of its bugs. One of these days, I want to see the Incan ruins at Macchu Picchu, Cuzco (the old Incan capital), and Lima...
I know...I'm weird.
By the way, I just did something really mean to uiuc.test. I made a link to the video and I told them to grab a snack because it was long. I'm expecting to be kicked at any time...
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Date: 2006-03-29 02:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-29 05:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-29 05:51 am (UTC)I couldn't watch. Poor little curious mouse.
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Date: 2006-03-29 06:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-29 06:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-29 07:34 am (UTC)Short version:
File cabinet: 1, Scary thing with 100 legs: 0. The crunch sound that marked that critter's demise still haunts me to this day.
I also saw (and disposed of with a heavy thing on the end of a long pole) my first scorpion in that building.
Yet my tent, which was built on a soccer field and infested with field mice, was safer, having not encountered scary crawly things nor scorpion baddies the entire 6 months there (though coming home and finding mouse turds IN MY BED was a unique(ly disgusting) experience)
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Date: 2006-03-29 02:58 pm (UTC)Anyhow, I guess you have scary creepy crawlers just about anywere, and not just Peru. I'm not striking it off my list because of its bugs. One of these days, I want to see the Incan ruins at Macchu Picchu, Cuzco (the old Incan capital), and Lima...
I know...I'm weird.
By the way, I just did something really mean to uiuc.test. I made a link to the video and I told them to grab a snack because it was long. I'm expecting to be kicked at any time...
Hmmm.....
Date: 2006-03-29 05:18 pm (UTC)http://maps.google.com/maps?oi=map&q=Peru,+IN
It's the little things that make Shanedoll giggle ;)