El Oriente

Hi guys

Tonight will be our fifth and last night in the Oriente before continuing to Quito and thereby return to the highland.
As mentioned in the last entry we did a rafting tour yesterday. It was a lot of fun. We got wet, wet and wet again. Over all it was a pleasant trip. The exciting parts with action could have been a bit longer but one can't have everything. We were on the boat with a Dutch and a Canadian girl and the guide. Although the commandos of the guide were in English it was sometimes quite annoying when he wanted us something to do and I didn't understand it. Well, what can one do except learn some Spanish. In addition to the consequence of getting soaked wet, I caught a lovely ultra red sunburn on the upper parts of my legs. The conesequence was that I had to put a wet towel over my legs for sleeping, to cool it of. Now it's ok, but still looks very unhealthy.
I had my camera in a special dry bag (dunno the right name for it). The guide had the marvelous idea of putting this bag into the cool box which was by far not water proof sealed. This all for doing some intentional flips with the boat. He did it once, then we all protested because with thought this being stupid. After the trip while opening the box and the bag we saw that there was water in it. My camera bag was totally soaked and the camera was wet. Luckily it turned out that Cannon is a good product and therefore my cam still is completely functional.
At this point I would have again wanted to upload some images, however, the computer has problems accessing our cameras.
Ok, thats it. We'll have some dinner later and then tomorrow at 0630 we take the bus to Quito. Can't believe that next week I am already on my way back... time flies by just too fast.
Cheerio!