On our way into the Jungle!

 The very small town of Coca, that we flew into and had to take about a 5minute taxi ride to the port where we caught the canoe to ride up the river

Some sweet views of the river as we ride our canoe up to our lodge. Luckily it was a beautiful day and the ride was amazing. All week we loved going on rides in the canoe because it was the only air conditioning that we could get.

 Lady Finger is the small banana like thing that we ate a lot of.

My 2 favorite pictures!

 We made it to the random stairs on the side of a hill. We then had to walk about a half a mile to where our lodge was.

 The cooking hut

 I loved this view from a patio at our lodge!

 Some views from the canoe ride

 Our hidden fort or where we lived for the weekend, it was super sweet!

 Our tour guide Luis rescued our butter from our friend the parrot

Right next to the lodge was what they called a community. There were probably about 50 people that lived there. A lot of them work at the lodge but they also are farmers and other occupations of the people there. They work everyday from about 5am to 3pm because after that many times it is too hot. Every afternoon when they are done working the people of the community get together and either play Ecuadorian volleyball or Futball (soccer). We went over a few times and watched a pretty intense volleyball game. Everyone comes and sits around and watches and we found out some people even make bets on the game.

 The hospital that has been set up by the government

 The bathing hole for everyone in the community

 This is the technically college which they are trying to make bigger

The church in the community

This was the monkey that interrupted the volleyball game.