In eastern Ecuador you find headwaters to the Amazon River – one of these rivers is Rio Napo where you will find many tourist lodges and resorts. The one we stayed at is “La Casa del Suizo”. Our guide told us that La Casa is the best of all.
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| On our 15 minute canoe ride |
We arrived on Saturday after a 4-hour taxi ride (see blog post: “
All Hollywood stunt drivers are from Ecuador”) coming down out of the Andes from Quito.
The last 15 minutes of the journey is a canoe ride down the Napo where you finally find the resort.
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| View of Rio Napo from our room |
The package includes three meals a day (which is excellent) and daily guided tours of surrounding attractions (butterfly farm, indigenous pueblo, a small zoo).
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| Gabriella & David |
One interesting story happened one day when our guide told us of the following morning’s activity. It was all in Spanish, and I was translating. Unfortunately I missed the important part that we needed to bring entrance fee money for the zoo.
When we arrived the guide pointed to the sign that said it cost $3.50 to enter. Uh-oh! Luckily a young couple (Gabriella and David from Quito) paid our way in and later we repaid them and bought them an after dinner beer.
At the
Quichua pueblo we got to sample some food and drink.
We ate worms and drank chicha de yuca.
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| An uncooked, wiggling worm |
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| The worms cooked in a banana leaf |
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Janet eating a cooked worm.
Just like in the Lion King:
"pecans with a very pleasant crunch" |
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| Joe drinking chicha de yuca |
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| Relaxing on our patio |
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| The main building at the resort |
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| Warm enough to swim at night |
In eastern Ecuador you find headwaters to the Amazon River – one of these rivers is Rio Napo where you will find many tourist lodges and resorts. The one we stayed at is “La Casa del Suizo”. Our guide told us that La Casa is the best of all.
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