After a long day of travel, we finally arrived at Puerto Lopez. The hotel was very unique and cool. It was like trying to navigate through a maze because when we first arrived it was dark and the setup of the rooms was quite confusing. After killing about ten cockroaches in our room, we headed…

Our first day back at Todd’s lodge was a free day to work on our projects. We pretty much relaxed all day. At night we went on a walk around the lodge to look for bugs and spiders that don’t come out until night. We saw a lot of interesting critters. Our next day started…

We’ve had some crazy adventures over the past few days. On Thursday, we left Todd’s lodge and embarked on our journey to the Waorani Nation. The canoe ride was about 5-6 hours. Luckily, we didn’t get stuck in the rain on the way there. But the sun was beaming down on us, and everyone got…

I am finally all caught up with my blogs! Yesterday we checked out of Hotel de San Fransico and left Quito. We first went on a short walk on Papallacta Mountain. We were about 13,000 feet up and we were in the clouds. Even walking on the flat parts had us out of breath. After…

Today I was gifted the responsibilty of having the snapchat glasses. I had a lot of pressure on me to take pictures and videos with them. Our first stop of the day was Jet Fresh Flowers – a rose farm in  Latacunga. When we arrived at the rose farm, we were greeted by many animals…

We are officially done with our first full day in Ecuador! Yesterday, we left campus at around 9:30am and arrived in Quito at around 8:30 pm. We then drove about an hour to Hotel San Francisco de Quito, where we will be staying for the next few days. When we arrived at the hotel, we…