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The Mural Project
The puppet show ended on Valentine's Day and we started a new project with a group called One World Classrooms on the day before. This one week project involved painting a huge rainforest mural on the side of a coliseum in the little village outside of Banos called Ulba. They have a website so if you want to, you can read more about them, but …
Voluntarie Amazonie
... le tour du propriétaire et nous présente tous les animaux. On commence par les Gatuzas qui sont des sortent de rats porc-épic, deux des femelles étaient enceinte, mais malheureusement on n’a pas assisté à la naissance. On continue avec les Loras, perroquet d’Amazonie, le petit Albertito, qui n’a que 1an et commence à apprendre à voler, Patricio, perroquet dont la race s’appelle guacamayo, le pauvre était en liberté avec sa femelle, quand des ...
Community service
... primero turistas" (first-ever tourists). Gulp! Having escorted us on the bus, Pedro (the community coordinator) handed us over to the community tourism president, Ignaicio. We received our brand new wellies and set off into the jungle. Our destination, Asawanchu, is only reachable by foot - our route was a four-hour trek and the nearest village with a road (our route out) is two hours away.
The walk itself was broken up by regular ...
The Amazon!
... rainfall of 27cm for the month only 7 has fallen so far. With the only accessibility to the lodge via boat, waters kind of crucial around these parts. We took a boat ride down the river that usually takes 40 minutes and ended up taking over an 1 1/2hr, having to get out and walk some parts and push the boat out in others as the water was only knee deep in many places. The river is so cool and great for a swim when ...
Cheer you up in the pick-up truck!!!
... en liepen (lees: klauterden) we de heuvel op om het enorm lelijke beeld van ons moeder Maria (de zoveelste) te aanschouwen.
Een nieuwe dag, een nieuw verhaal. Tijd om mountainbikes te huren en de route langs de mooiste watervallen af te fietsen! Maar HET GOOT! We hebben nog even staan schuilen, maar het mocht niet baten. We moesten erdoor en nat waren we toch al. Helemaal tot in Puyo (58km) zijn we niet geraakt (te wijten ...