Photos from El Coca, East, Ecuador, South America - page 11

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73 Evening over the Napo, Yachana Lodge

72 Leaving Yachana - must have a go on that rope swing!

71 Meeting Douglas the owner of the Yachana reserve

70 Cheers everyone

69 Welcome milkshakes after a weeks training

68 Connie meets a Mealy Amazon Parrot

67 The Yachana Eco Lodge

66 Community church

65 Yachana community

63 Yachana students and damn good football players

63 Meeting the kids in the Yachana community

63 A visit to the Yachana college upstream from our camp

61 Franklin and Catherine by the Napo River

60 The shopkeeper has never seen such a demand for biscuits!

59 Shopkeeper and her family

58 The local store

57 Amy looks on as we all attempt the bridge crossing....successfully

56 Puerto Rico school where we taught English to the local children

55 Sarah and Amy spot something in the distance

54 Bobby looking the part.

53 On Tuesday we all take walk down to Puerto Rico the nearby village

52 Tinamou bird sat in a tree

51 Damsel fly

50 Our first frog!

49 Katydid

48 Hannah makes a new friend, Damsel fly

47 We think this was a leach of some kind in the tree

46 Monday's highlight was going out on our first night streamwalk. Toops and Max are frog spotting

46 Duncan and Sima's baskets

45 Alan is crowned basket weaving king, what a star!

44 Dan must have misheard...we are making a basket!!

43 It's not long before the boys become competitive

42 Rebecca's feeling confident, Connie's lost concentration next to her!

41 Mauro is a patient teacher

40 After machete training it was time to learn basket weaving from Mauro and the boys

39 Duncan and his machete ready for action

38 After a weekend of settling in it was up bright and early on Monday for machete training as demonstrated by Rebecca

37 This is what is on Flavio's machete in the previous picture!

36 Franklin and Flavio, Ecuadorian students involved with the GVI project

35 Plantaine and Bananas in the comedor

34 Flowers around camp

33 Comedor (eating area)

32 Shower cubicles

31 Our bedroom complete with beautiful mural

30 Connie in the dorm

29 Our home for the next 5 weeks

28 Impressive forest canopy

27 Passing the Yachana Tourist EcoLodge

26 Locals waving us off

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