students at the Día de la Raza "in school!
My other jobs here, the last days of the week were not so terribly exciting but not boring! I spent hours walking in the city, many streets to explore, food stalls made clear to me working on the new place and now I get lost and not know my now almost perfectly from here! With my family, I consider myself quite a lot, they're all really funny, especially her big sister, which is cool. Yesterday they gave me an Ecuadorian song sung, but how he, like that of an angle and I did not help it and can laugh out loud and then had to have all laughed =)!! With Mama Yoli and her nieces I go every Wednesday and Friday in the aerobic dance (Salsa, Bachata, Merengue, Ecuadorian folk dances ... ..), it is damn hard and I will only run down the sauce on a tack! Today I will still ask what else there so everything is here for sports, I have to do that is something else I will really fat, fatten me here when I was a pig that will soon come to the butcher !!!!!
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rice with shrimp and mussels. This was a small portion for $ 3.
which had just about almost three people can be satisfied. |
And the food is delicious and genuine, but the portions are not normal anymore, but would you compare it to a mountain, then it'd probably look like Mount Everest in miniature very strong!
OH yes, what I forgot, I've already fried ant queens eaten and they were surprisingly delicious. Very crispy!
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| Uquis ant queens |
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| Half the dish I've eaten =)! |
And one of my favorite activities Marktbummlerei, there's stuff is so horny and every time I buy new fruits and snacks that I do not know yet. In most cases, will I am not disappointed, only one indigenous drink that's I'd become almost sick, but I do not want to admit that it is not my taste. This was somehow a fermented Yukasäftchen, very disgusting! And the next thing I will try very thick grubs, up to now I still can not overcome this =)!
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| Platanos |
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| No coolers like at home! |
The weekends are always the best. The first time is Nicola and the other volunteers here in Puyo, and I went to Yanacocha. This is an animal breeding center for the endangered animals and also for wild animals that have lived in captivity and have been abused. There they are kept in large enclosures or outdoors. There also a few monkeys hopping around so, and if you're lucky, you could even pet a.
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| there all the time hopping around freely. |
We both are fascinated, especially because the animals here really comes extremely close. Some can even pet such as a "Tigrillo," which looks like a small leopard long!
The whole thing is in a beautiful setting, with colorful flowers, butterflies and water points, you feel is almost like the rain forest. There are a variety of monkeys, parrots, macaws, butterflies, rainforest chicken, all kinds of wild cats, wild pigs, turtles, caimans .... louder and other animals, whose name I unfortunately do not in German!
Then we drive to Fatima, where there is a good place on the river for bathing us in the cool and fresh water.
rain forest tour
Two different types of orchids
This weekend has been the coolest what I have experienced here so far! The man from the other night school English teacher has a country house at 1800 meters high above the rain forest, near the Rio Anzu! Up there it receives students ... teaching them about the environment and the rainforest. On Saturday at 6:00 in the morning we meet so Henry and the student Pablo at the terminal and go back on the bed of an old, rickety truck about 2 hours in the direction of "Selva"! The roads or dirt roads are getting more bumpy, dusty and poor to navigate. In the end we have to get off and go on foot because the estate can not be achieved otherwise. In my new rubber boots that are really worth gold here, we tromp through mud, over logs and huge stones. It's damn hard, especially since Henry draufhat a monkey teeth, or rather I mean to die fast!
Nature rips the only way past me, I see everything just blurred green because I focus so much on the ground have to do to not slip and fall down! Please do not equal in the first hours, Meli, I think to myself all the time, that would be a bit too embarrassing!
Done! Finally we arrived at our accommodation. She's beautiful. built out of pure Nautrsachen, no concrete or anything else, only bamboo and dried leaves, maybe a few Wellblächer, but that's it for now! We sleep in hammocks on the first floor, downstairs there is a large kitchen, great room with fireplace, an oblong wooden table, a bar ..., toilets and showers! And you have the coolest views of the mountains, rain forests and even the volcano Sangay.
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| Our accommodation |
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| views of the rain forest near our accommodation |
I like it here on the spot and it can certainly loszugehen not expect. After a quick breakfast, it then goes wrong with cane and hat!
Now we really are inside the green thicket.
We get told that there are also bears and tigers, tigers here, unimaginable for me, but yes there are those we have seen, unfortunately, no! I'm thankful for my boots, because we have to run every half hour through a muddy field, where we put it up almost to his knees in it firmly. The sounds are always so funny that I almost always make your pants need for sheer laughter and mostly you just go without help does not get out! It goes up steep hills and down again, over thick tree trunks over it, it will waded through streams and sometimes jumping from stone to stone care! We can play Tarzan and Jane sometimes, as there have been there so horny, long lianas, with which we are swinging around. Watch out for me great fun, despite the gallons of sweat.
You also have enormous that you slip do not know what frequently happens much laughter for me and causes me a little bit overwhelmed with adrenaline. Been dropped but I am not once, even if it sometimes quite close was =)! After an eternity we finally reached our destination, a beautiful, clear, cold river, the Rio Anzu. There we make a fire, swim in the water you can even drink, and finally we eat a lot of grilled cheese Kochbnanen!
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| swimming in the fresh river water |
The way back was faster, because we knew already to have to watch what we However, we had rain, but still sought. It pours as in Germany just not möglcih, we are down to the underpants get wet, but somehow it makes me out of nothing. On the contrary, I think it's fantastic. I could spend hours running around like that! Arriving at the house, it starts correctly storm and we must move our place to sleep in a tent, there are even above the wind, the hammocks have become britschnass. No problem, a bit harsh, but it can still get a good sleep inside, or we are dead tired after all the walking, eating and talking!
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| Our kitchen |
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| I mash the plantains |
The next day Meerschweintag! Henry offer us one of his "Animal house"!
"Who wants to kill it?", He asks us. Ha, who is funny, my friends so blatant I'm not for me on it, I love to have renounced it. The next step, I got it done yet. The aim was to remove the hair, so Meersau into the water and then rumrupfen already! Then remove all the intestines and thus, in turn, makes Henry, because he's just come, makes it even more beautiful season and down to the charcoal grill is nice crispy brown to it.
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| Cuy-guinea pig |
Everything is packed with potatoes and cheese sauce and off they go to the next tour. The only lasts not as long as before, since we now have to leave. It's a monkey biscuits, where meets in May, a 30-member family of monkeys to get there to feed on a grape fruit that grows only fact at the time. There we enjoy our guinea pig and bathe in the river one last time.
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| guinea pig with potatoes |
Thus, the time it was far from me again! Soon and very best wishes! Besitos!
Eure Melanie
