Jungle slide, our turn around spot

It rained, quit, rained, quit a little and then just came down in buckets. Everything that is wet is slippery, Jaire tells us. He's our Kichwa guide and without him we'd have broken bones for sure, as he helped us over the worse places.

Deep in the soggy, wet, gorgeous jungle

January 29th 2012
Geo: -1.04364, -77.7063Picture torrential rain on a muddy hillside. Now add a slippery rock path of steep steps and crawly, spiky, sticky things on the hillside, dropoff on the other. No, squishy mud, then drop off. Now you can put Bob & I on the trail but by now you have to add muddy water coursing down the path in brown waterfalls where it pauses in ankle grabbing pools. Yup, that's us f ... read more

South America » Ecuador

The "Republic of the Equator" was one of three countries that emerged from the collapse of Gran Colombia in 1830 (the others are Colombia and Venezuela). Between 1904 and 1942, Ecuador lost territories in a series of conflicts with its neighbors. A b... ... read more

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