Achote plant found in the jungles along the Napo River. This is used for coloring cloth, pottery, the hair of an Indigenous group called the “Colorados,” to paint the faces of tourists:), and it’s used in a common food coloring oil here in Ecuador. Ecuador is not just for kayakers! My mom came down here […]
Reaping the rewards of a jungle portage. The ‘gang’ dropping into Land of the Giants A crew from Aspen Whitewater Rafting was in Ecuador last week to test their mettle against the mighty rivers of the Amazon Basin. What did they find? Huge rapids, exciting jungle downpours, monkeys, flaming shots in the bar, and a […]
Small World Adventures just finished our first and best rafting trip of 2008. We had a good crew of folks from TX, IL, CT, and CO here for the week (or part of the week in Chris and Christy’s case), and we got to see some amazing parts of Ecuador from the comfort of our […]
Aspen Whitewater Rafting, a small whitewater company based in Aspen, CO, recently had a ¨company retreat¨to Ecuador with Small World Adventures. (You can check them out at http://www.aspenwhitewater.com/). Since they were a group of our friends, Don and I did not feel too badly about making them suffer a little bit. We had a few […]
Travelling in sytle in the Napo Valley, Ecuador. This just goes to show you that sometimes rafters and kayakers can get along–or at least share a shuttle! Don and I just finished up our first shredder-kayak class IV trip. There were four kayakers and two on the shredder as well as Don and I and […]
