So today it was up at 5:00 to catch the bus to the airport which is 90 minutes away. We boarded an A320 for a 30 minute flight over the Andes to Coca where we catch a boat to the lodge. I thought you would be amused buy someone’s sense of humor so I included a picture of a “Jet Boat”. The trip down the river took 3 hours in a relatively fast speed boat. The lodge is 80 KLM down the Napo River, which flows into the Amazon River. The entire region is the “Amazon Rain Forest” although we were many miles short of the actual Amazon River. You immediately know you are in the Rain forest as soon as you get off the plane at Coca, temperature  25C and the humidity is anywhere from 85-90%. Very difficult to adjust to immediately, it took a little while.

When we got to the lodge we walked down a path for 15 minutes to a waterway, maybe a creek, which lead into a lake. When we got to the waterway  we took large canoe up the lake to the  lodge, about another 15 minutes.

Very first class! Upon arriving it was a 20 minute  orientation about the rain forest and what to expect then off to our rooms to unpack before an evening canoe trip around the lake.

But I have not told you anything about some of the people we are with!!  First; we discover that there is a couple from Canmore Alberta, Mike and Bonnie that we were in China with..how cool is that! Secondly there is a couple from Ladner, Chris and Penny, who know our good friend Barb M. very well. Chris use to work in the Vancouver Police Department with Barb many years ago, the other, 17  I will mention as we go along, some are from  USA but many are from Canada. Our Guide is Diago, who everyone who has ever been on this trip with Adventures Abroad just raved about and we can sure see why.

But we are humbled by all of the traveling most of them have already done, they make us feel as if we hardly travel at all

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