Kapawi Ecolodge in the Amazon

Children playing outside their home on the banks of the Pastaza River in the Amazon

Nearing sunset on the banks of the Pastaza

We saw rainbows almost every day in the Amazon

In the Amazon even spiders are beautifully colored

A Walking Stick, camoflaged among the branches

In front of a giant Strangler Fig Tree

Two of the beautiful yellow birds just outside of our cabin at Kapawi

And red ones

With our guide Daniel and Achuar guide Jorge

This swamp wouldn't have been too much of a problem had Michael's boots not had a gaping hole

Our adopted family, the Catapanos from Seacliff, NY. We liked them so much, we hijacked their vacation

Lisa taking her turn with the blowgun

If you didn't think the blowgun was an effective weapon, the dart went right through a solid piece of wood

A typical Achuar home

An Achuar boy huddles down in the front of our canoe trying to keep warm while his mother stands over him

An Achuar school

On the balcony overlooking the lagoon at Kapawi

Our Achuar guide, Jorge, using a machete like it's a delicate tool

In search of the elusive Pink River Dolphins

LPK writing in her journal in our cabin at Kapawi

Matthew trying to perfect his blowgun shot

LPK getting her face painted

Jorge and the painted Lisas

Shoot! Just missed.

The market at Otavalo

Mooooo

Our bamboo cabin at the Bellavist Cloud Forest

Hummingbird feeding on sugar water

In mid-flight

LPK doing a little girls english homework in a very small town in the cloud forest

The lodge at Maquipicuna

The view from our hotel room window in Quito

Standing on the equator

In Quito with our new friends Patrick and Kirstin

Visiting Tamara and Christin who are in the woman's prison in Quito.