Life in the jungle is simple - especially when we are being looked after so well at the Napo Wildlife Centre and our mission is to see wildlife. During lunch one day, Ryan - the visiting filmmaker - excitedly pointed out the river otters fishing in the lake while a 15-foot long caiman hovered around looking awfully hungry. A visit to two local clay licks demonstrated a frenzy of hundreds of parrot and parakeets scrambling to ingest clay (that helps them to proce...

We just spent 5 days in Yasuni National Park in the heart of the Amazon at the Napo Wildlife Center (NWC). We will describe our first few days in the Amazon in this posting and finish it off in another posting. We were greeted in the airport by our naturalist guide Juan Carlos immediately upon our arrival in Coca, taking a bus to our launch point on the Napo river - one of the direct tributaries of the Amazon river. As we waited for our motor boat, Jim took the ...