To get to the jungle we first had to take a bus from Quito to Lago Agrio (8 hours). There we met up with our guide/interpreter, Miguel and the rest of our group and had to travel a further 3 hours by van, and then two hours by motorised canoe to reach our camp site within the Cuyabeno Reserve. Quite a journey indeed. Our naturalist guide, Gilbert was amazing at spotting different animals in the jungle just with his naked eye. We don't know how he did it, but he managed to find all kinds of different animals including an Anaconda, lots of Toucans, Kingfishers, Caymans, Spiders, 7 species of snakes, an Electric Eal, frogs, Pink Dolphins, different species of monkeys, Macaws, Stinky Turkeys, Marching Wasps, a Sloth (pronounced slut by our interpreter Miguel) etc etc...
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