Lago Agrio

May 29th.
Herd we are in the far east of Ecuador around the area where oil has been discovered in the 60ies. Lago Agrio is a town counting about 60 thousands people and lying around 25km south from Colombia. In order to arrive here we had to take a 8hour long bus ride from Quito, which actually was not too bad besides the very high number of people standing during the whole drive. This is how ecuadorians make profitable their very common mean of transportation. We did not see much of the drive as I was sleeping and Scott was reading. I only woke up when we were already driving next to the oil tubes. The city its self has nothing much exciting and is rather a hub for people having jungle tours booked LIKE US!yuppy.Tomorrow is the big day, jungle here we come.

Otherwise we spent the last three days in Mindo, a city which the three of us liked very much. Its a very small town with unpaved road and surrounding amazing vegetation. We had a blast at our cozy hostel, meeting all sorts of different and very interesting people. According to the Ecuadorians the biggest number of tourist comes from the US and Germany. We can confirm that! We went out one night to the only pub in town and spent the whole night with about 15 Americans. Everything was really out of context,hehe:-)
Besides that on the very first day we went zip lining! Yeah and had lots of fun. 13zip lines just about the jungle. It was breath taking! In the afternoon we could not do much as usually in Mindo the weather is very nice in the morning and it rains in the afternoon. So we went to grab a coffee and eat some delicious brownies the make in their local chocolateria! The day after we went to hike around some amazing waterfalls where Scott and Lucy tries their swimming skills in the very freezing water. i just watched and took some pictures. In the evening we went to the frog concert which is nothing else than waking around a farm and listening and looking for some tiny frogs. It was very interesting though as we got to see some fluorescent wood!!! and some very nice insects.
After all that we left Mindo as it was raining again and took a school bus(!!!) to Quito:-) We arrived early enough to be able to buy a cell phone and a waterproof bag for for our trip in the Mall. We also got to visit and have dinner at the very popular street in Quito where no cars are allowed and where everyone comes to hang out...Unfortunately this was our last day with Lucy as she stayed in Quito today and we took the bus for Lago Agrio. It was great traveling with her!