Blogs from Tena, East, Ecuador, South America - page 7

Tag 1 Nach einem Tag Erholung in Baños nach einem actionreichen Wochenende geht es schon sehr frueh morgens mit dem Bus in Richtung Tena, denn auf uns warten 4 spannende Tage im Dschungel! Leider spielt das Wetter heute nicht ganz mit. Als wir in unserer Dschungel Lodge ankommen, regnet es in stroemen. Nichtsdestotrotz sind wir von unserer Unerkunft begeistert!!! Etwa 100m ueber dem Río Anzu scheint die Shangrila lodge (www.amarongachi.com) geradezu su schweben. Wir beziehen unsere eigene kleine Holzhuette mit Balkon und Haengematte und geniessen die spektakulare Aussicht auf den Fluss, den Dschungel und die Berge im Hintergrund! Ein wahrhaftiger Traum! Schon bald beginnen wir unsere erste actividad und besuchen die Comuidad inídgena de Santa Mónica, eine kleine Gemeinde, in der ca. 70 Menschen mitten im Dschungel leben. Im Hause des Shamanen lernen wir das Leben ... read more

In Tena I was joined by Corinna, my flatmate from Quito. We decided to go on a rafting trip. As Corinna had not done any rafting before, she wanted to go on the easier Grade III tour, while I was going to go on a Grade IV trip. However, in the morning we were told that due to the heavy rainfall during the night the Grade III river was flooded and it was too dangerous to do the trip. The grade IV river was actually easier at this stage. So we both went on the same Grade IV trip. We were a large group, around 40 people in 7 boats. We were first taken in buses to a place near the river. In heavy rainfall we were given first instructions, and then had to walk down ... read more

Well hello there, its been nearly a week since i've written a blog so a few things have happened. On Tuesday I met up with the group of people I did rafting last weekend before they headed back to Quito. We firstly headed out for dinner. It was seriously posh, nearly the poshes restaurant I have ever been to but with the prices of Mc Donalds!!! My Meal was $5! Anyway, they had a sloth which just hang out on the ceiling which was pretty cool! I found out on Tuesday that I had a longer holiday than expected and that Thursday and Monday were also no school days. As I had only admired the rainforest from a distance I thought It was about time I took a trip into it. Thursday I went on a ... read more

Den fysiske/psykiske -En personlig sejr beloennet med en mageloes udsigt En af Jatun Sachas turist traekplastre er et 30m hoejt fugletaarn, som rager et godt stykke op over traekronerne. Brrr... Jeg er begyndt at blive lidt bange for hoejder paa mine "gamle dage", hvilket jeg bestemt ikke er tilfreds med, saa jeg gav mig selv den udfordring at kravle op i taarnet. Planen var at jeg skulle goere det sammen med Rebecca, min roommate, ved solopgang, da det skulel vaere helt vildt flot oppe over traekronerne. Saa vi satte os for at tage afsted kl 5:30. Men da jeg vaagnede kl 5:00 var Rebecca ikke i sin seng, hmm... der havde vaeret lidt party dagen inden, saa hun var havnet i en andens seng Men jeg ville afsted, saa selvom jeg ikke var helt vild ... read more

No pictures i'm afraid this time, I don't really want to risk taking my camera on the raft with me!!! Well, I have had another completely wicked day! I took another rafting trip with the same company on Saturday and it was a lot of fun. It was a catgory 3 river and was only 25km but it still took up the whole day. In the group was 2 swedish girls, a Norwegian Guy, a Dutch guy, a Danish girl and two German girls and the leaders were 2 Irish guys and finally and Ecuadorian guy, so all in all a very international group!!!! The majority of them had come together from a Quito lanuage school and they all spoke excellent english. We set off at about 10:00am and the weather was pretty cloudy. A couple ... read more