Goodbye to nightly jungle lullabies; unfeasibly loud crickets and an entire chorus of frogs singing me to sleep each evening. Goodbye to bugs and beetles the size of my fist. Goodbye to machetes and mozzies and more. Ladies and gentlemen, Sam and I have left the jungle… And frankly, we´re a little bit sad about [...]
Archive for August, 2008
So long, farewell. Jungle Janes are outtahere…
August 19, 2008
Hard Times, Soft Hands…
August 10, 2008
How do you get to work in the morning? Is it on the District Line? The number 8 bus? In the luxury of your very own car? Or do you scramble along fifteen minutes´ worth of steep, muddy track, avoiding a clutch of venomous snakes, spiders and a nest of killer wasps? When you wash, do [...]
Welcome to the Jungle
August 2, 2008
I am a blog machine today. I am sure that it is because I have been deprived of internet access for a week, and so, like any addict, need to binge in order to satisfy my craving.
The first challenge in our trip to the jungle was braving Quito bus station, location of numerous muggings, bag slashings [...]
Bungalow 6 to jungle hut…
August 2, 2008
The last two days in Quito were considerably better than the first entire week there. It took us a full week, but eventually we managed to find enough friends to qualify for a hostel tour to lovely Mindo, town of cloud forest (no, we don´t know what they are either. Seem to be merely forests in the clouds [...]
