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Jungle Boy!

I´m just back from 4 days in the Jungle off the River Pastaza traversing the Amazon Basin. I booked this through an organised tour and had a crazy Ecuadorian guide, Sixto, and joined an Aussie girl and two young Israelis straigt out of national service. I was pleased to find that the Aussie was a massive Cricket fan and manage...

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, the next we were
crossing the makeshift bridge into Puyo.

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, deep in the jungle. For $40 day, I got to stay at the lodge all weekend (my own room), have 3 fan...

When I passed through places like the Inca Tail, or the Colca Canyon, I always felt a little bit sidelined when fellow travellers outlaid an orgasm for the orchids that sprung up in our path. The group would huddle around with their cameras set to micro focus, injecting their lens deep within the girth of the protruding petals. "Oh yeah, hold it...

The hike has repercussions. Liza fell over twice but thankfully her ankle is fine. Not so my vasculitis and my achilles gives me a truly painful night to forget in bed. When I awake I can hardly walk and have to forego the final days walk. Liza goes with JJ and Roland, our new Swiss guest. Another day another waterfall. JJ shows them how to suck...

We spent the weekend in Banos. Which was a bit of a mistake. For three days this gorgeous, laid back sleepy little town hidden in the volcanoes was transformed into an eruption (see what I did there?) of people and noise - mainly car alarms - as seemingly the whole of the Oriente descended upon us to celebrate festival. Ostensibly this was somet...

Welcome to the jungle The weekend of May, we had a four day weekend. I decided to head to the jungle with my housemates from Spain. I spent the 4 days with all Spanish speakers, which was really good for me. I have to really pay attention and listen so they would talking about in order to understand then and respond. I did really good must of th...

Am not in Banos yet this week, still in Puyo because we´re all here to support Glen in his football match (the Long-term volunteer who plays for Puyo-Pastaza) which starts at 2pm. We´re all heading to Banos for the night afterwards, all of us being me, Rachel, Lydia, Glen, Richard (though he´s off back to England so not returning to the centre o...

Well I'm currently in Puyo and in about an hour we are going to catch a bus to Tsuraku and finally begin the volunteering part. I think that I'm pretty much better now and I'm ready to go. Puyo itself is a pretty small town given that it is the entry to the amazon in Ecuador. There is meant to be a really good restaurant here called 'El Jardin' ...

Next we traveled to Puyo where we learned about medicinal plants in the rainforest and made new friends.