We pass military checkpoints where we may be asked to show passports. We continue to the Peruvian border and head up ablack water river into a series of beautiful lagoons. Here we set up our tented camp. With the help of our Indian guide we will explore the region which is teaming with macaws, toucans, hoatzin and hundreds of other bird species. There are also monkeys, caiman, anacondas, boas, and other reptiles and amphibians.
Insect life abounds.
We fish for piranhas, take jungle walks, hunt for caiman, and swim in the lagoon. Meals are prepared over open wood fire and consist of fish that we catch in addition to foods brought along from Lago Agrio in our dugouts. Overnight in hammocks near San Pablo. Their buttress trunks spread more than 40 feet across the base and grow upward 150 feet or more until they emerge above the canopy. Our walk ends in the village of San Pablo where we visit an Indian family.