Trip to the Oriente

Spent 4 days and 3 nights in the Napo region of Ecuador with Y5/6 children.  The community of Rio Blanco really looked after us and it was a wonderful experience being led through the rainforest by their elder and shaiman - Fabio.  He taught us different survival skills and gave us different plants and lemon ants to eat among other things.

 The Camp.

 The Rio Napo and the boats waiting to take us down river.

 A Capibara.

How to get a snack in the rainforest!

Fabio from the Rio Blanco community who had a wealth of knowledge.

The Rio Blanco community.

 Children playing football.

 Birds nests.

 A butterfly emerging.

 All over we saw piles of wood that had been cut and extracted from the forests.

 The road had just been built in the last few years and Fabio described some of the negative influences that it had brought with it such as alcoholism and the easy access to alcohol.

This ancient Ceibo is over 400 years old and the locals believe that it is the source of the Amazon river.