More Jungle Photos

Here are a few more photos from this past week. The first photo is a view from the dining area at Shangri-La.


I took this photo inside a house in the Quichua community of Santa Monica. A traditional way of cooking food (vegetables, fish, etc) is a ´maito´, which involves wrapping the food in a special type of leaf and then cooking it in the fire. In the pot is guayusa, a tea that people often drink early in the morning....it provides lots of energy.



This photo is at my goodbye party on Thursday night. Rosalia and Eduardo (on either side of me) are brother and sister, both part of the family at the Amarongachi Cabins.


Another picture from my goodbye party: Jhanet, Elizabeth, her brother (whose name I never knew since I only met him 2 days before I left) and me.



This is a picture of almost everyone from Shangri-La. We took this picture just before I left, since everyone came up to the street with me while I waited for the bus to Riobamba.