Sunday June 8th
Today we finished in the jungle. Or so we thought. It turns out that even though our itinerary had us listed as staying in the town of Tena, we were actually in another jungle lodge about 10k out of town.
Now this wasn't as bad as it sounds, the view from the balcony of the rooms was amazing, beating even Banos for the title of the best ever hotel view. We were on the top of a cliff 100 feet about the river and with the whole Amazon jungle heading off towards the mountains and volcanoes in the West. Combined with an amazing sunset it made sure that the hotel lived up to its name Shangri-La.
The other reason this wasn't as bad as it sounds was that we did actually stop in the town of Tena for some lunch and to use the internet (well we had been without it for 3 whole days). Tena wasn't as good as it sounded in the guidebooks.
The only thing we lacked with our schedule was a laundry. This meant that the stuff that had gotten dirty and wet in the jungle still wasn't able to dry out (it is damp in the rainforests, who knew). The laundry may not make it to the next laundry opportunity without getting ruined.
Today was the birthday of Kenlo, one of the guys on the trip. So the drinking in our new hotel was quite intense for some people, although amazingly I was not one of them. As a present for Kenlo, Jason set us all up watching the Futurama feature file, Bender's Big Score, on his laptop. It was OK, a better movie than the Simpson's movie, but there wasn't enough Zapp Brannigan in the movie for our liking.
Today we finished in the jungle. Or so we thought. It turns out that even though our itinerary had us listed as staying in the town of Tena, we were actually in another jungle lodge about 10k out of town.
Now this wasn't as bad as it sounds, the view from the balcony of the rooms was amazing, beating even Banos for the title of the best ever hotel view. We were on the top of a cliff 100 feet about the river and with the whole Amazon jungle heading off towards the mountains and volcanoes in the West. Combined with an amazing sunset it made sure that the hotel lived up to its name Shangri-La.
The other reason this wasn't as bad as it sounds was that we did actually stop in the town of Tena for some lunch and to use the internet (well we had been without it for 3 whole days). Tena wasn't as good as it sounded in the guidebooks.
The only thing we lacked with our schedule was a laundry. This meant that the stuff that had gotten dirty and wet in the jungle still wasn't able to dry out (it is damp in the rainforests, who knew). The laundry may not make it to the next laundry opportunity without getting ruined.
Today was the birthday of Kenlo, one of the guys on the trip. So the drinking in our new hotel was quite intense for some people, although amazingly I was not one of them. As a present for Kenlo, Jason set us all up watching the Futurama feature file, Bender's Big Score, on his laptop. It was OK, a better movie than the Simpson's movie, but there wasn't enough Zapp Brannigan in the movie for our liking.
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