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 ...

We just got back to Quito from the Galapagos this evening and we leave for the Amazon early tomorrow morning. Not sure we're going to get a chance to write the final entry on our time on the islands until we re-emerge from the jungle... which we hope will be next weekend. Thought we'd at least share an image tonight of one of the faces from the last week we won't soon forget. Some narly eh?!

Well, we sure hope we don't get behind in our blog entries too often because trying to remember all that has happened during these action-packed days becomes difficult for a couple of old fogies like us! We spent our last few days in Galapagos piling one experience upon another including kayaking and our last hours on Isla Isabella snorkelling amongst a large group of 30 or so sea turtles. The water was a touch warmer (although still not warm) which made it that...

Wow! We have had a very exciting few days getting to and around the Galapagos Islands. We are enjoying the 14 other Intrepid tour 'mates' who come from England, Ireland, USA, New Zealand & Canada - all part of the wildlife. Early on Sunday morning we made our way to the airport and had an uneventful flight to Isla San Cristobel. Our first experience with the wildlife was a walk along the boardwalk of the sleepy town. There were sea lions lounging around every...

Some technological difficulties have challenged us and now we think we are able to become true bloggers! Sorry for the delay, folks. We are alive and well and have even skyped our 'baby' today from a cafe in Quito. How cool is that?! Last time we traveled for an extended period, some 28 years ago, all we had was snail mail and an occasional phone call from a post office that had 3 second delays after each person spoke! So here we sit drinking coffee in a cafe lis...