Cristina leaves and we decide to stay one more night Cristina left this morning on the bus back to Cuenca. Mom and I were undecided on whether or not we were going to stay another night another night but I talked mom into doing the tubing. This day we met Juan Carlos, who is the husband of Shanti, the woman I have been communicating with on the Internet. He spoke English which was a plus and took us for an amazing jungle walk down the scorching highway to a trai...

Museo Kamak Maki About a 10 minute cab ride from Misualli was our next destination Museo Kamak Maki. Not knowing exactly what to expect we were not so impressed when we arrived, but staying here turned out to be one of the best decisions we made! Then we met our guide who was dressed like a traditional Kichwa tribesman, but we recognized him as the super drunk guy who couldn't put a sentence together the night before.... Haha!!! Needless to say he did not rememb...

Crazy carnival.... We left Tena in the morning and headed for Misualli about a 45 minute bus ride away, we were told there is a big party here today and when we arrive into town the road was closed! Luckily a nice family in a pick up truck give us a ride with all the bags into town. We had just called a couple days before and reserved a room at France-Amaziona, when we arrived there was a little confusion but we ended up getting the super suite right on the rive...

Cristina arrived for Carnival weekend! Cristina caught an overnight bus from Cuenca and arrived in Tena at around 6:30 in the morning. She didn't have long to relax before we were off on a white water rafting adventure on the Jatuncocha river! This was the first time she had ever been white water rafting and before we got in the boat the guide pretty much scared the crap out of her giving her the safety talk of the scenarios that could happen! After being told ...

Off to the Amazon! We planned on taking the public transportation to the bus station but as the buses came by we could see it was not possible as they were packed full of people, so we took a cab. The Quito bus station was a pretty impressive building and we didn't have to wait too long before we were on our bus to Tena. We arrived in Tena with no problems and met a guy who said his parents owned the hostel and helped me carry one of the bags there! Well it tur...