Hello everyone, here we are in Coca, Ecuador. In two days we will leave for our eleven-day trip down the Rio Napo towards Iquitos, Peru. We will be canoeing (sp?) down the Napo and Amazon rivers eventually getting to the largest city not accessible by road. We will be fishing for pirahna and hiking through the jungle with indegenous people. Once in Iquitos, plan on flying into Lima, the capital, and taking a bus to Cuzco. From there, we'll hike the Inca trail to Machu Pichu. Coca isn't the nicest place, an oil town that is extremely dirty. People here don't seem as tolerant with our poor Spanish as in other places. They see it as Ecuador, a place they shouldn't need to speak English. Which is all well and good until they are mad at us for speaking poor Spanish. We manage, though, and will be on our way. Hope all is well back home.
Phil