Monday, October 5, 2009

Project Amazonía

As most of you know... I'm a bit wordy. Hence the reason I blog. I got back this afternoon from an incredible first trip to the Amazon rain forest- Parque Nacional Yasuní. We stayed at a scientific station owned by la Universidad Catolica. It was an awesome four days and I'm going to try and let the photos speak for themselves (with minimal EJ commentary!)

Day 1: Plane, taxi, boat, bus= 6.5 hours of travel from Quito to Yasuní

We definitely were a sight in our outdoor wear and rubber boots. Nolan's were yellow.

Some people looked like Tarzan and Jane.


We took a boat tour and saw some turtles, a sea otter, and "stinky turkeys"

Yasuní at dusk.

Amazon vegetation: This tree was known as the monkey's playground. It is also helpful if a wild warthog is chasing you and you need a place to run for protection. (Our guides were very helpful :-)

On Sunday we climbed this tower at...

...6:00 am and saw these guys...

...and we went up again at 6:00 pm to see this.

Lo quiero la Amazonía.

Great weekend.
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2 comments:

  1. NataliaOctober 5, 2009 at 9:22 PM

    Ah! So jealous. Mine is just going to have like 2000 words and a couple pictures. Always outblogging me, you are;) Oh well, I'll just have to tell my people back home to check out this random girls blog...it'll be great. Besides, I've got the stories to tell :) and I love the Tarzan/Jane pic by the way. Yes, good weekend.

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  2. UnknownOctober 8, 2009 at 7:02 AM

    ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh awesome!
    miss you!

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