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Puyo Slideshow
Puyo
Travel Blogs from Puyo, Ecuador
Kids Arrived
This is a top pick! A month and a few weeks in from entering my site and I am still finding myself training to find a piece of home in all that is going on. Vacaita, my dog (I changed her name after two days) was an eye-opener to my community member at first, but now my ...
Kapawi - Two weeks from anywhere...
This is a top pick! Kapawi (The last Frontier) November 5th-9th, 2004 "In the tropical forests, when quietly walking along the shady pathways, and admiring each successive view, I wished to find the language to express my ideas. Epithet after epithet was found too weak ...
My Ants Marching
This is a top pick! (This is an entry taken from my journal entry originally written 9/11 to fill you in on the gap of time that I have been in the jungle.) Walking back to Mondaņa-Yachana on the same old beaten path, brought on a science experiment with big red ants. ...
Visiting with Friends
This is a top pick! ... many new Ecuadorian friends and it's not so easy to just up and leave. The result is an invitation to visit Puyo, close to where the jungle begins in Ecuador. I am kind of going that way anyway so I figured why not. I arrived in Puyo with my friend Maria, ...
An Amazing day!
This is a top pick! Head out for breakfast and then to hire some bikes for todayīs adventure. We first check out the volcano from the bridge again and it is really smoking today! We are cycling (or should I say mainly freewheeling!) down to Rio Verde further east down the ...
Travelling to Banos
This is a top pick! Travelled on the top of a bus for a couple of hours today before switching to the inside for a another 4 hours and several changes in bus. Narrowly missed being hit of the head from an overhanging tree but survived ! One of our fellow travellers shouted ...
Jungle Warfare
This is a top pick! We have spent the past four days at a very comfortable ecolodge deep in the heart of the southern Ecuadorian Amazon. We were fortunate to share the lodge with only two other guests (capacity is 40), both of whom were delightful company. Dustin is a ...
"Why does it always rain on me/us....?"
The day had come that Conor (David Attenborough) had waited for all his life...going into the Amazon. We met up with our group in the tour office, got our raincoats and wellys and jumped in the 4x4. Within 10 minutes we were both having flashbacks to our ...
Cycling to the Amazon
... we cycled is that it fall quickly to the Oriente or Amazon Jungle so you pass about four different ecological systems on the way. Puyo is not quite in the jungle yet, it is surrounded by secondary forest, but still it is beautiful and so different from ...
In the jungle, the mighty jungle
OK so there are no lions in Ecudor but it was pretty special all the same! We picked up our Burkima tour on Saturday morning and immediately hit the road in "Mo" our 20 seater bright red truck along with our 13 travelling companions. We headed to the ...
More Monkey Mayhem
... , it is hopefully moving in the right direction over here... During my time there I had to head back to the nearby town of Puyo (1.5 hours by bumpy bus ride away) a few times to get to the internet. By this stage the whole trip to the Galapagous was ...
jungle tourist style!
... p.p.p.n. No way like, this place is far too ugly for that lark.. We searched the not so trusty guide, and it named residential Ecuador as being clean and basic and cheap. We went in search, and got given bad directions from an ugly woman (ugly because ...
Welcome to the Jungle, Baby!
Friday Morning I left the paved roads and civilization of Tena, Ecuador for the a little Eco-lodge deep in the Amazon Basin aptly named Shangri La. Shanrgi- La is a beautiful lodge set up on a ledge about 100 meters above a fast moving river, ...
Welcome to the Jungle!!
Finally I can go to the jungle!! First bad news: There is no risk of Malaria where we are going, one hour away from Puyo... No fun if we don't risk Malaria... I met the guide early in the morning, and I met my new roommate for the next 2 ...
All shook up
... yet this week, still in Puyo because weīre all here to support Glen in his football match (the Long-term volunteer who plays for Puyo-Pastaza) which starts at 2pm. Weīre all heading to Banos for the night afterwards, all of us being me, Rachel, Lydia, ...
Oh the anti-orchidist shame!
... without the slightest showing of thanks. But she was extremely lovely none the less. For these two places alone Puyo is a place worth visiting. The town is just a town, the tourist agency needs a makeover and the thunderstorms work like ...
Rio Verde near Banos
We had a drive day out of the Amazon and into Puyo for lunch. Then we arrived at out destination by 2pm. Which is campsite which is run by a Swiss guy(currently in London) and a Scottish guy. It has all the amenities and we were treated to a great bbq ...
Banos, Ecuador
Well the amount of Ash in the Air is low now as we had thunderstorms last night. The owner of the campsite showed us a home DVD of the eruptions that some crazy spanish guy filmed last month. It certainly is an active volcano from time to time. Our ...
Fun and games at hospital and starting work
Before leaving to go to Santa Martha this morning i went to the hospital to get my bites checked out. They didnīt seem to be getting much better and i had been getting pains in the joints so wanted a blood test just to make sure it was only an ...
In the jungle
danielaīs cousin phil is part of a christian missionary program down here, which includes a group of students in a program called potterīs wheel. the program has been working with communities in the jungle town of misuhalli, and a couple of times a ...
Wet wet wet
... and then feel asleep by 9pm because a) i was shattered from travelling so much with little sleep for the past 2 days and b) Ecuador is 5 hrs behind England. Woke up starving, had a lovely breakfast. Chatted to a gent from San Pablo with an accent ...
Overcame my fears
Click to View the Facebook Album Took a trip to Puyo which is the starting place of the Amazon on the Ecuadorian side. We passed amazing landscapes on the way the town which was two hours away. Started the day by visiting an animal sanctuary in the ...
An Interesting Experience...
... , but I unfortunately didnīt have my camera with me, so I donīt have any pictures. We ate a typical dish from Puyo, which had plantain chips covered with tuna, lime juice, boiled corn, and other fresh vegetables. It tasted really good, and ...
Misahualli
During an 8 hour journey .... peeing by the side of the road, sometimes behind bushes, sometimes behind the truck (itīs a punishable sin to call Gus a bus or anything but a truck!) and sometimes just in front of anybody and everybody ... needs must! We ...
Biking to Rio Negro
Hola Amigos, Today was an early start. Up at 5:30 to soak in the hot springs. No problem, I was awake since 2:00 anyway. Sharon was the lucky recipient of a massage from some young buck who spent the whole night up drinking...at least he smelled that ...
Puyo
Beside the bus depot, pretty noisy, OK hotel. Cheap food, nothing special. The trip across from Archidona was mixed rough ROUGH road, and great smooth concrete highway. Weird that out here in the edges of the world, there are such good ...
Animal Rescue
So Here i am after a few day in smelly quito. I have travelled south along the Andes to an Animal rescue ...
Basketball and ants
27th August 2009 Hostal libertad, Puyo, Ecuador (12 usd) 30 degrees Tena – Puyo (80 kms) Today was one of those perfect days, no really, a lovely day of cycling that whizzed by. one minute we were in Tena cycling past the trendy riverside hostals, ...
Crawling up Cotopaxi
We arrived after our $1 bus journey down from Quito in Latacunga. Itīs simply a jumping off point for climbers and venturers alike of Cotopaxi - the worldīs highest active volcano. With Nial a couple of days ahead of us (weīre hanging back now) we ...