Panning for gold

Here was a surprise: gold in the mud of the river. People all up and down the Napo were washing gold and one of the Kichwa women gave us a demonstration -- in just 5 minutes, there were 8 or 10 flakes of gold in the bottom of her pan.

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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