We got off the horrible night bus in Lago Agrio, the pick up point for the Amazon trip, we had to get a taxi to a cafe and wait there to be picked up. There wasn't many people there at all and most that were, were on our tour. We got picked up on time and had a two hour minibus ride to the river. There was us two, four Argentinian guys, a German girl and a French guy and they all seemed nice. We arrived at the river where we had lunch at a restaurant, chicken chi...

In Mancora we very nearly missed the bus! Very very nearly missed the bus! It was driving off as we rounded the corner and someone had to whistle it to stop! In our defence we were still 5 minutes early! So very very luckily we got on the bus! The bus was lovely as usual and we made it to the border of Ecuador in decent time! The border immigration was together, so we didn't have that awkward part of trying to find the other side. It did take forever though! A...