In rapid stream as rio Napo..

almost one month that i havent wrotten anything about my trip. well 2 things: times and the internet accomodation. went from town to town and from city to city until i stoked down in a little town named perucho where i stayed for one week to work in the ecological farm. in perucho there wasnt any internet cafes or anything only green hillside, lettuces, mandarines, avocados, coffees and sugar canes. anyway it was a pleasant week on the farm, because after that we went to the oriente to dos some work for the Bolsa amazonica. AHORITA, i'm in Cali; Colombia. so i'm going to sum up my trip to ecuador in one breath.

first, i was riding wave in montanita. a beautiful place were the wave was nice but also fill with sandflies (i still has some kind of skin rash not sure from what, bust suspected it was sandflies). after montanita i went north to Puerto Lopez where i took a tour to Isla de la Plata and seen alot of boobies. blue footed, red footed and nasca. the same ones as in Galapagos. besides birds i also saw some coloured fish. after Puerto Lopez i went to the capital of ecuador, Quito. probably the cheapest and the most beautiful capital in SA. went to the (slighly off) monument of the ecuator but also to the biggest artisan market of SA in the town of Otavalo. after that i went to the farm in Perucho. one week i learned about weeding, cultivating, irrigation and did some trekking to maybe one of the most beautiful farm in the surrounding area. learned alot but i regret that i wasnt helped the community significantly. but the people in the farm and the friends of michael did enjoy my cooking, so on the other hand it was a pleasure to stayed in the farm.

after one week in the farm, Michael was needed to do some work in Amazonia and thus we went to the oriente with Coca as starting point. it was here where Francisco orellana started his trip to explore the gran amazon river. but we were in Coca to helped with the refining of amazonian fruits in to juices, pulps and mermelade. after Coca we went to Tena were we met a group of ladies that recycled old papers into arts (and everything was ecologicaly done). from Tena we went to el chaco where we visited a mushroom farm and ate a delicious ceviche de hongos.

all of these businesses were in line with my interests and i really learned alot from this trip. and also with my background of bio chemistry i could explained the people in the farm how everything worked in the microscopic level. so it was kinda interchanging of knowledge and culture (indonesian food ;) against Ecuatorian).

my stayed in Ecuador was pleasant and it is definetly a country where i want to visit again. definetly i want to go back to perucho and maybe to have some adventure in Amazonia (Coca to Belem; Brasil).

abrazo

Ch'