Thursday June 5th
Today we went to the jungle. Hooray. I had already had about as much jungle as I cared to see and could have done without it. In fact I volunteered to stay behind looking after the sick, but I was outvoted.
Unlike in Bolivia this time we were pretty much able to drive into the jungle. We got the truck to a landing point, and then we were only a 20 minute boat journey to the lodge we were staying in. In comparison to the one we stayed in when we were in Bolivia, this lodge was luxury. But not as much luxury as the one across the river, which in jungle lodge terms was 5 star accommodation. Our guide told us we were staying there as a joke before we rounded the corner to see ours.
After lunch in the lodge (the accommodation may be better but the cooking isn't quite up to the same level) we went to see animals in an animal sanctuary. These animals are the animals we couldn't see in the jungle because the Ecuadorian jungle is just too developed. All the animals have left years ago. We saw a number of animals, some we had actually seen in the wild, like capybara and monkeys, and some we hadn't seen, like ocelots and some other weird rodents. But we didn't see any sloths or armadillos, which I was sort of holding out for.
The animal sanctuary was a volunteer run organisation, populated mostly by Germans girls. We had a drink with them, and then headed back to our lodge, where we had dinner, drinks, and played cards. Yes one thing this jungle has over the jungle in Bolivia, the easy availability of drink.
Today we went to the jungle. Hooray. I had already had about as much jungle as I cared to see and could have done without it. In fact I volunteered to stay behind looking after the sick, but I was outvoted.
Unlike in Bolivia this time we were pretty much able to drive into the jungle. We got the truck to a landing point, and then we were only a 20 minute boat journey to the lodge we were staying in. In comparison to the one we stayed in when we were in Bolivia, this lodge was luxury. But not as much luxury as the one across the river, which in jungle lodge terms was 5 star accommodation. Our guide told us we were staying there as a joke before we rounded the corner to see ours.
After lunch in the lodge (the accommodation may be better but the cooking isn't quite up to the same level) we went to see animals in an animal sanctuary. These animals are the animals we couldn't see in the jungle because the Ecuadorian jungle is just too developed. All the animals have left years ago. We saw a number of animals, some we had actually seen in the wild, like capybara and monkeys, and some we hadn't seen, like ocelots and some other weird rodents. But we didn't see any sloths or armadillos, which I was sort of holding out for.
The animal sanctuary was a volunteer run organisation, populated mostly by Germans girls. We had a drink with them, and then headed back to our lodge, where we had dinner, drinks, and played cards. Yes one thing this jungle has over the jungle in Bolivia, the easy availability of drink.
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