Coca, Ecuador Travel Blogs

Amazon Adventure
Jul 27, 2004 (11 photos)

... square. It was very exciting...and peaceful...but it sounds like there is a bit of tension with the current president in Ecuador. We eventually looked at some on the churches... At night we went to some of the markets and bought some fantastic white ...

Jungle adventure - caimans and card games
Dec 19, 2005 (1 photos)

... to Coca, via Lago Agrio, which, as we read in the guidebook while passing through town, is the most unstable region in Ecuador due to its proximity to Colombia. All the way, the road followed an oil pipeline - the Oriente (Ecuadorean Amazon) has been ...

Amazonas School Week No. 4: Jungle time!
Oct 23, 2006 (29 photos)

... we looked hilarious. Although we managed to pass out for a good chunk of the ride, we were still pretty out of it when we arrived in Coca city at 6 am. Coca was fairly quiet as we walked through town towards the hostel, from where we would later take ...

Trip to La Selva Jungle Lodge
Apr 6, 2008 (8 photos)

... hotel garden and found a couple of caged parrots, one uncaged parrot, a peacock, 5 little monkeys and maybe a coati. Our host in Coca spoke a little English, but that was the end of that. The water taxi was a long, long motor boat filled with supplies to ...

The trip down river
May 9, 2007

... the locals must have been pissing themselves). My clothes stunk really badly and set finding a laundry as a priority. After arriving back in Coca, to the heat and humidity, I decided to take a night bus to Baños. I said that I wouldn't take any night buses ...

Jungle Day 4: Surviving the Rio Napo
Oct 26, 2006 (9 photos)

... of the American group's arrival and more importantly spiced up a bit by Brandon's bottle of Chilean red wine that he had bought in Coca. Not my favorite, but hey, alcohol is alcohol. :) We all played spin the bottle (the more PG version that we had played ...

La Celba
Jun 22, 2009 (30 photos)

... our bags check for drugs from Columbia. Back in Quito again at 6am, in our new hostel we had the best shower yet in Ecuador.  Even though I loved showing outside, not really beats hot water and good water pressure.  We have a leisurely day on ...

Jungle day 5: Adios mosquitos
Oct 27, 2006 (10 photos)

... our last. We had two excursions and one and a half hours of class at the lodge and then our remaining hours of class in Coca city before we caught our bus back to Quito. Our first excursion at 7:30 am consisted of a long walk through the reserve, which we ...

Amazon
Apr 10, 2006 (30 photos)

Hola Mis Amigas!!!!!! Sorry for the lack of love with my mails, for the past month I have been on my placement in the Amaazon, with no Internet access. However now Im back in Quito living with the family again and ready to roll again. My placement in ...

The travelling begins
Aug 27, 2007 (4 photos)

... way of going about these things.  The aim for the first week was to somehow make our way along the Río Napo from Coca in Ecuador to Iquitos in Peru, preferably without having to swim any of the way.  So, after an overnight bus ride from Quito ...

Coca
May 21, 2008 (1 photos)

Coca is a jungle oil town that provided services including access to the national currency of Ecuador the US dollar. The country abandoned the floundering Sucre in 2000 and has used greenbacks ever since. They even have US coins as well. A bed with a ...

You´re in the Jungle Baby!!!
Oct 30, 2008 (10 photos)

Any trip to South America would not be complete without a spell in the Jungle. Many of the countries have a chunk of it - Ecuador is prob one of the more expensive places to do a trip to it.Unfortunately, I didn´t know that when doing my planning - Original ...

La Selva, 1st full day
Apr 7, 2008 (10 photos)

After writing last night we discovered 2 animal surprises. One was a large, fuzzy brown spider on the bedroom wall. I suspect he is a Brown Recluse; a spider to be avoided. We left it. With large gaps everywhere in the structure we didn't even discuss ...

Birds, a rabbit and some bananas
Sep 22, 2009

22nd September 2009 Hotel delicias, naranjal, Ecuador (12 usd) Sun's just going down, very warm Guayaquil – naranjal (90 kms) leaving Guayaquil was as busy and asthma inducing as any other major city. In fact I would go so far as to say that ...

La selva
Jul 13, 2007 (10 photos)

... . Het vertrek vanuit Quito naar Coca verloopt niet soepel. De start wordt zelfs afgebroken op de startbaan, omdat het vliegveld van Coca is gesloten door hevige regenval. Na nog twee mislukte pogingen mogen we toch vertrekken. In Coca regent het hevig en ...

Feliz navidad
Dec 18, 2004

... A lot more European feeling with virtually no indigenous people. To add to my list of inappropriate food to be eating in Ecuador (in addition to Chinese, Indian, Mexican, Indonesian) I can now add Austrian?!?. Yep great restaurant round the corner that did ...

Coca
Jul 30, 2007

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Transition Day back to the City - Quito
Apr 9, 2008 (11 photos)

... were 3 employees from La Selva on our Napo River boat and well as Jeff and I and 9 native residents (called Originals in Ecuador) including a baby and 2 toddlers.  On the river we were passed by many faster boats - some full of white people, some full ...

On the road again, time to reflect.
May 1, 2007

... whim I decided to visit the jungle. I had a stay in the jungle at Puerto Quito but the lure of the Amazon was too much. Ecuador is reputed to have the easiest access to the Amazon basin and a chance like this probably won't come again. I've decided to go ...

Bringing donations a la escuala
May 17, 2005 (15 photos)

Here are some pre-photos sent through Rotary International. The main purpose of this trip was to bring school supplies, money and pen pal letters to a school just south of Guayaquil. 200+ children (K-6) share a one room school house with little ...

Coca
Aug 3, 2007

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Sani Lodge- the mighty Amazon jungle
May 6, 2008 (24 photos)

... a trip to South America was the mighty Amazon jungle. And what better time to do than with Jake and Cath on their trip to Ecuador... So, early on Tuesday morning we travelled to Quito airport to take a short flight down into the Amazon, via the town of ...

Jungle Day 2: Enjoying the fine flavor of "mayon"
Oct 24, 2006 (14 photos)

My cell phone does not have an alarm (how is that possible?), so I once again tried to set my watch for 6:15 am...and woke up to Zayra calling out "Clarita...Clarita...Estas lista?" outside of my cabana on her way to breakfast. I quickly showered, got ...

Jungle Day 3: Patience makes perfect
Oct 25, 2006 (4 photos)

I gave up on my watch alarm and asked Brandon to wake me up this morning. For once, I was able to shower and meet everyone on time for our usual 6:30 am breakfast of hot dog bun bread, eggs, some sort of fried thing (today a dry pancake without syrup) and ...

The Heart of Darkness..sort of.
Dec 10, 2005 (5 photos)

A 25-minute flight took us from cloudy, cool Quito, to sweaty mosquito-bugged Coca - where prostitues mingle with oil traders and vendors selling giant snails in the street. Equipped with wellies and plenty of deet, we climbed into our motorised canoe for ...

In the Mighty Jungle...Day 1 - Arrival
Oct 8, 2008

... we didn't fancy another bus journey...there will be plenty more of those to come) we landed in a small town called Coca in the east of Ecuador at the edge of the jungle where our journey began. We took a motorised canoe down the River Napo on a beautiful ...

La Selva Jungle Lodge
Nov 17, 2007 (39 photos)

... the most amazing 4 day stay at La Selva, the first jungle lodge in Quito.  We took a half hour flight to a city called Coca, then a 2 hour power boat ride on the river, followed by a 15 minute walk and then finally a 20 minute ride in a 10 man canoe ...

Stopover in Coca
Feb 2, 2009

... gebucht nen paar Bierchen getrunken haben und uns gefreut haben wieder in der Zivilisation zu sein. Der erste Eindruck von Ecuador war doch sehr angenehm....um einiges moderner als Peru....ich kann mich noch erinnern als ich von Bolivien nach Peru ...

Coca
Feb 13, 2007

An armpit of a town on the fringe of the jungle where our hotel staff nicked 50dollars out of our wallet. The dive in question was the Williams Hotel. Don´t go there.

Mighty Jungle - Day 3
Oct 10, 2008

Today's walk was a big success much to Rodrigo's delight. The guides seem to put a lot of pressure on themselves to find animals...but you just never know what you'll see in the jungle. Anything is possible. That's nature and that's part of the fun. Our ...