My next excursion is the Oriente! It is the east of of Ecuador, the part of the country that is mostly tropical rainforest. We leave early Monday morning, taking a half hour plane, then short bus ride, then a canoe through Rio Napo, then YPS oil company checkpoint registration, then 1.5 hour bus, then 2.5 hour canoe ride. Arrival at Tiputini Biodiversity Station late in day! Our director Xavier explained how it "is in the middle of nowhere". He is a funny guy, Ecuadorian but studied in France. Friday, after a lecture on venomous snakes of the Oriente, we had a final talk about the logistics of the excursion. He acted as though we shouldn't have been so naive and uneseccarily worried when we asked about pumas and 6m snakes that hang near the kitchen and are the most poisonous of the region, eels and fish that swim into your "holes" (we will be bathing in a river), HUGE poisonous ants and spiders, and our "drop off" where we remain completely isolated in the jungle in order to fine tune our senses for observation, his answer was an "oh pleeease" face and an "accidents happen very rarely" answer to each question/concern.
WOOO AMAZON HERE I COME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sunday, February 21, 2010
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I wish he had said accidents NEVER happen there. OMG. . .I can't wait to hear how it was, i.e., that it is over and a memory and a past tense learning experience. How to scare your mother? Write in your blog about HUGE poisonous ants and spiders and eels and fish and snakes and pumas.
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