The Amazon jungle in Ecuador was great!!! We saw several monkeys, five snakes, some little crocodiles and some interesting birds. Getting there was the hardest part. We had to go to bed in a hotel in Quito at 8pm, then at 11pm we woke up and took a taxi to another hotel thinking that was the place to hop on the bus. When we got there there was nobody, so we waited almost another hour for the bus to actually come and so we got on and rode all through the night. The next morning at 7am the bus arrived at a restaurant, we ate breakfast and got on another bus for just 2 hours. We finally arrived in the Amazon! We weren’t at the lodge yet though, we had to take a 3 hour BOAT ride to get there so that’s what we did. I was so glad when we got there and we were all exhausted!!!!!! 
That night we went for a night walk and saw a vine snake that was green and in a tree like a vine. 
The next day I slept in until 8:30 because I didn’t want to miss breakfast. At around 10 o’clock we went paddling and saw some birds and monkeys, that was fun and relaxing! 
That afternoon we went for a walk and saw a tarantula which wasn’t as interesting to us because in Salento we had found one in our room. 
The day after was very busy we woke up at 6 and went bird watching we saw some more monkeys. Then we went down the river to an indigenous community were we made, harvest and ate yuca bread, we put chocolate on one and made the other one into a tortilla. We also tried larvae it sounds gross but it is actually quite good, I bet we would have liked it more if we didn’t have to pick up the alive larvae, wash them, stick them on a skewer and cook them. That was the gross part.
In the afternoon went to a lagoon and swam, it was so warm. Then we went looking for Caimans ( little crocodiles) and found two boas we got super close. By the time we got back that night it was very late so we just had dinner and went to bed. 
On Thursday we had the choice to go bird watching but I was to tired so I stayed at the lodge, after breakfast the group that was only staying for three nights left so we were only nine people. We went on a walk and tried a medicine that smelled like garlic that was from the nature, we had to snort up the garlic thing and it burned a lot. It was as if you pored a bottle of hot sauce up your nose. 
At 4pm we went on a boat and paddled once again. The we went for another night walk and saw a snake called ‘snail eating snake’, guess what it ate? The next we had to leave, it was so sad.
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