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Up the Amazon

South America » Ecuador » By Elmo Abbey
June 25th 2007
Abbey Elliott South America » Ecuador By Elmo Abbey
March 15th 2007

Just the two of us
Woweee. what a trip!!!

it takes two days to get into the amazon. the first spent on a coach to Coca (via lago agrio) took about 9 hours. there is so much oil stuff going on that the road runs in constant with the pipeline. oh the pipeline!! its ugly and so is Coca. anyway its a good jumping of point to get into virgin rainforest.

The second day was when we found out that we were the only ones going to bataburo lodge in Huaorani territory. these are the indigenous bods who live on monkeys, macaws and caymen. they are scary but its good they are so tough because they can kill he oil companies and loggers. They even fought the Ecuadorian army and won! Don´t mess.

So anyway, its just the two of us in the open sided bus hurtling down stone roadstowards the river. it took about 3 hours to get to the river where we transfered to motorised canoe. We spent 2 hours navigating down into the jungle avoiding the fallen trees (great driving Eduardo) and checking turtles, kingfishers and herons.

We arrived at bataburo and we were the only guests plus our
lets go!!
guide Julio and Eduardo and the cook. sooo lucky!! We had a full itinerary of bird watching, jungle walks, piranha fishing, night jungle walk and some poison blowpiping thing. we also got fed alot. too much. it hurt. we didn´t really see that many mamals (monkies in the distance) but still it was top draw stuff. How people live out there I don´t know. nuff respect.

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