Cuyabeno Reserve

... drug bust, but we happy to move on before any gunfights broke out.   IMH: It was a bumpy 2.5 hour bus ride to the Cuyabeno Reserve entrance. The Cuyabeno Reserve is in the Amazon Basin and probably one of the best spots to experience the Amazon in ...

... some fun yet mindboggling equatorial experiments! For Callum´s birthday we wanted to do something memorable so we decided to travel to the Cuyabeño Reserve in the Amazon and it is safe to say that this definitely lived up to the challenge of being ...

... best and safest place to do it), guide obligatory, we decided to head on a five day excursion into the Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve or 'Reserva Faunistica Cuyabeno'. The reserve is made up of over 1.4 million acres of pristine jungle environment and ...

... , crazy place. We stayed in a place called Samona Lodge which is on the Rio Cuyabeno river in the Cuyabeno nature reserve in the north Oriente, up near the Columbian border. The lodge was pretty basic, but very comfortable, perfect for people ...

... two of us on a massive rickety bus which took us to El Puente in 3 hours where we had lunch before going into the Cuyabeno reserve.  From there, a motorized canoe took us for 2 hours to Samona lodge.  On the boat ride we saw lots of animals - ...

... general chat. One of the guys was making a spear so we talked about that, and also about the upcoming strike in Ecuador (there´s fights over water rights and some Huaorani are planning on going to Quito to join the demonstrations).  Our campsite for ...

... the mood for adventure (but not to be lunch!) After the movie we had a really FUN 3 hour car ride to our boat at Cuyabeno Reserve (the amazon!) which was followed by a 2 hour boat journey up river to our accomidation. On the boat ride we got to see ...

... at our remote jungle ¨lodge¨ deep in the heart of the Amazon.  We spent 4 days at the Cuyabeno Reserve and never was there a dull moment!  For starters there was no electricity which was alright except that our cabin ...

... hungry caimans. Yet, we prevailed, and after two hours of such Amazon encounters, we finally reached our destination, Cuyabeno Lodge, which rested along the Laguna Grande. Now our adventure would really begin... That's one version of what happens ...

 The Cuyabeno Reserve is located on the Eastern side of Ecuador and sits at the basin of the Amazon jungle.  We have been to deepest, darkest Africa and compared to the Amazon, the African jungle is "jungle light" ( I won´t pursue the obvious ...

Everything in the Amazon will kill you. The spiders and snakes were expected but it was the fish that took me by surprise. The feared piranha, with teeth like sharks was intimately introduced to our group when the timid middle aged Danish woman that ...

Having almost killed ourselves in the mountains, where better to go to relax than the sweaty confines of the Cuyabeno rainforest reserve? It was very hot and muggy - so much so in fact that the only other guests at out lodge (a swiss couple) left a day ...

... at 6 am, we waited at a hotel to be picked up at 10, then drove 3 hours over unpaved roads to the entrance to the Cuyabeno reserve, then took a motorized (thank god) canoe into the jungle to get to our lodge, so yes, it was very remote. when we were ...

... spending four days in the lodge with at the airport.  We climbed into two separate vehicles and headed down the dirt road toward the Cuyabeno Reserve.  The small bus I was riding in broke down very shortly after we began.  As I stood by the side of the road ...

we had set up a five day tour to the Cuyabeno wildlife reserve which included all travel expenses... we left sunday night at 11:30 on a bus to Lago Agrio - a predominate oil town.    The bus zigged and zagged -- sped up and slowed down ...

... on a small film project of my own but decided I needed some distraction. I hadn`t yet visited the famous jungle nature reserve of Cuyabeno - about 5 hours from Lago Agrio - so decided it was time. I called our local contact and within a day or two I was ...

... 10am to take us on a 3 hour bumpy bus ride then a 4 hour canoe ride to get us into the primary rainforest area- Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve. The ride up took forever and we had to stop along the way to pick up our local guide so we were so ...

... figured it took us way longer to go half way across the country than it did to get here from Albuquerque, remembering that Ecuador is only the size of Oklahoma! We were in the Cuyabueno reserve, which is a reserve for indigenous people and oil pipelines ...

Entry containing 18 photos titled: A big tree, A dead tree on a sand island in the river, A leaf, A millipede, A tarantula, Hammocks galore on the boat down the amazon, jungle vines, Lilypads, Sometimes life is tough..., Spider, Spikey tree, Stick insect - can you find it?, Surfing on the bus roof when we ran out of petrol, The bus terminal we slept in, The difference between the dry and wet season!, The entrance to the lagoon from the river, The Peruvian rainforest from the air, View from our cabins