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Travel Blogs from Coca, Ecuador
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Amazon Adventure
This is a top pick! ... 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
This is a top pick! ... route 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 ...
5 days in the Ecuadorian Amazon Jungle
... so we hope it’s worth it! 10 hours by bus down through the mountains where we discover the bus and lorry drivers in Ecuador are absolutely mental and severely impatient – they will overtake anything at any point on the road and seem to think ...
Trip to La Selva Jungle Lodge
... mostly burnt out, the carpet was stained and our overhead speaker was hot-glued into place. Trust! It carried us safely to Coca, a funny little "frontier" town but big enough to have several taxis and a shopping area. It seemed like a meeting point ...
The trip down river
... hole, 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 ...
An oil boom in the Ecuadorian Amazon
... thing I expected to see. And despite the greed, corruption, pollution, injustice, and as is sometimes the case here in Ecuador, extermination of indigenous peoples that goes along with the oil industry, I have to admit the people here overall have a ...
Jungle Day 4: Surviving the Rio Napo
... 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 ...
La Celba
... 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
... was 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, ...
Amazon
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
... 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 ...
Birds, a rabbit and some bananas
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 ...
Coca
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!!!
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 - ...
La Selva, 1st full day
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 ...
La selva
... ;-). Verrekijkers zijn wel noodzakelijk, want de vogels blijven niet zitten voor een leuke foto. 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 ...
Feliz navidad
... 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 ...
Transition Day back to the City - Quito
... 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 ...
On the road again, time to reflect.
... 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
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 ...
Amazonas School Week No. 4: Jungle time!
... 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 ...
Jungle Day 2: Enjoying the fine flavor of "mayon"
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
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) ...
The Heart of Darkness..sort of.
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 ...
In the Mighty Jungle...Day 1 - Arrival
... but 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 ...
La Selva Jungle Lodge
We had 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 ...
Dschungel
Beim heutigen Dschungelwalk gab es lecker Lemon-Ameisen. Dani hat heut eine saftige Strafe bekommen, weil sie vergessen hatte mit Nobite (AntiMuecke) einzuspruehen. Der ganze linke Fuss ist von einer Armee Sandfloehe befallen und sieht dementsprechend ...
Stopover in Coca
... Nacht 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 ...
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