Wrestling anacondas in the Amazon Rainforest - Cuyabeno, Ecuador (amazon forest anaconda)

A TripAdvisor™ TripWow video of a travel blog to Cuyabeno, Ecuador by TravelPod blogger Jev. See this TripWow and more at tripwow.tripadvisor.com Wrestling anacondas in the Amazon Rainforest "THIS IS NOT COMPLETE, sadly the electricity in Quito (and half of Ecuador) went off when we were uploading and so this is not all of the pics. Also bear in mind that it is very difficult to take pics of moving animals, we had about 100 tree photos which MAY have an animal in them! Day One After a nice dinner with our lovely Quito family, we caught the overnight bus from Quito to Lago Agrio. It was a pretty bumpy journey - at one point we woke up to find that we weren´t actually driving on a road, just a field of rubble. Arrived at Lago Agrio early and met our guide Jairo, who was an Ecuadorian version of Tarzan. It was just the two of us on a massive rickety bus which took us to El Puente in 3 hours where we had lunch before going into the Cuyabeno reserve. From there, a motorized canoe took us for 2 hours to Samona lodge. On the boat ride we saw lots of animals - lots of monkeys jumping through the trees which were often over our heads (see video), toucans, blue butterflies and pink river dolpins. The lodge was amazing - we stayed in wooden huts with palm tree roofs and everything was on stilts. There was only electricity in the kitchen so everything else was lit by candlelight at night (so ofcourse it was cold Amazon water showers for us!). It was really beautiful, right on the ...

Channel: YouTube Video Length: 2m 38s Date Found: Mon, Jan 10 2011 6:09 PM Category: Travel Date Produced: Mon, Jan 10 2011 5:46 PM View Count: 0