Beach, ocean and jungle time

Now we are in Ecuador and we have been to Cuenca first. This is a very nice town with beautiful buildings and compared to Bolivia and Peru it is like we came to an increadibly rich country. Since today we are in Quito we know better and Ecuador is relatively richer, but still poverty is huge! But let me entertain you with Puerto Lopez and all the relaxing we did there.
So first our house, a little cabaña with hammock (hangmat) so ideal for relaxing, unless of course your back is completely burned, things that keep happening to Henk and me. And than on 50 meters from our house the beach, ideal for frisbeeing, swimming and drinking Zhumir.













We stayed quite a long time in Puerto Lopez, altough absolutely nothing happend there, ever, but the atmosphere was just great. One day we decided to go by bike (budget savings) to a place called Rio Blanca. Well this was absolutely a stupid idea, at 35° and no shade with too much climbing. We did not sweat this hard during the trip but we arrived anyhow. Here we did a short tour through the jungle, wich is actually secundary jungle and not that rich of animals and vegetation as the primary jungle. Still it was for Dutch standards increadible. We do go into the actual jungle soon. Well the pictures speak for them self, beautiful nature with quite dense vegetation, and some nice animals. Taking pictures of these animals is difficult since they do not always wich to stay put, as was the case with the monkeys.


Oh if you are afraid of spiders then do not go into the jungle, there are pretty nasty ones living there, but also nice butterflies!


Henk and I also went snorkling, seafishing and kayaking around and near Isla Salango. Due to the fact that we were very enthousiastic by it all, we sort of forgot to take pictures of the snorkling and the seafishing and the kayaking. Blame this on the fact that the sun cooked our brains during the trip.... But we did manage to make some nice pictures of the surroundings there.