Off to the Amazon

After a serious day of sight seeing in Old Town and shopping at the Quito art exibits we´re off tomorrow to the antithesis of the mountains of Ecuador - the Amazon jungle. I´m still blown away at the diversity of the geography of this country. This leg of our trip will solidify that observation. We´ll be staying at www.kapawi.com - an Eco Lodge owned and run by the Achuar people.

The lodge is a 30 minute plane ride to Colon, 1 hour helecopter ride then canoe journey into the lodge which is located on the border of Ecuador and Peru. The only other way to get into this area is by foot - 10 days through the jungle.

We´ll be trekking, canoing, bird/animal watching as well as spending time with the indigenous Achuar people in their villages. I hope to see pirrahna and pink dolphins and get a strong sense of how these people live in this challenging area...

Needless to say, I won´t have email or internet access while at Kapawi.
Back at you on the other side...
xoxo
terri
(check out posts below on the last few days of our trip in the mountains...)