Cuyabeno

Rio Cuyabeno

Amazon not my thing....
At least not at night sleeping all alone,
With the bugs and insects and the anaconda ....
I am scared out of my mind!

Got to Lago Agrio this morning
Took a two hour ride to Cuyabeno
Then another two hour canoe ride on the river.
I was having a blast
The sun was out
the wind in my hair
and I was on the water.

Beautiful rain forests
Saw squirrel monkeys
Bunch of monkeys actually whose names
I cannot recall.
Butterflies fluttering around everywhere

Anaconda Sun bathing on branches over the river
after having just feasted
It was beautiful with orange spots on
its belly.

I swam in the Cuyabeno river
I swam in waters infested with
piranhas, caiman, giant anacondas
and lord knows what else lurks beneath
the tea tinted water.

The Cuyabeno is in the Amazon basin.
On a black river system,
with a semi floating forest.

I actually was the first one to jump in.
Took an aussie 45 min to jump in
after he realized that nothing was feeding off of me.
Everyone else was to terrified.

It rains a lot in the rainforest...
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I am so terrified at night.
I am all alone underneath my netting
Everything is attracted to my hair
I pulled out six bees from my hair
They do not have stingers
But they definitely bite

I am fine during the day
I have no problem hiking, swimming
or touching scorpion spiders
I even caught a piranha
Mine went flying around like a kite
I yanked it out a little to hard
Beautiful fish. Didn't feel scaled
But has these big red marks
looks like its bleeding.

I had a beautiful sunset swim
not far from were I was piranhas fishing
The jungle sky is beautifully lite up after a rain storm
Spotted a few pink river dolphins today
and baby caiman

I am still to afraid to let a tarantula crawl on me
Wolf spiders not so scary, but I just leave it alone
I did pick up a scorpion spider
I love the little poisonous dart frog, red back
blue bottom and yellow legs.
Apparently it is safe to hold, its when it makes blood contact that it is deadly.
               
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Shaman gave me yage also called ayahuasca...

Went to the village early in the morning
Met Nacho a woolly monkey
He loves to cuddle and play
A guide found him in the forest as a baby.
He was crying like a human baby,
he was lost.
The guide took him back and raised him for awhile
Now he belongs to the village.
They consider him a pest.

Also held a pocket monkey
with the most softest fur.
He has racoon stripes on his tail
and had the same coloring
I learned and made pan de yucca
Its flat in the Amazon,
pan de yucca on the coast has yeast and is so yummy

Ayahuasca is a natural hallucinogen
The shaman did a brief cleansing ritual
I actually felt good afterwards
Even a bit light headed.
All he did was wave around some plants
He told me to take the ayahuasca on an empty stomach.
He said I can concentrate on the visions I want
or just relax and random ones will come to me
Since I threw up breakfast and barely ate lunch I figured I was good to go

I spent the day drinking loads of water.
At 10PM I drank the ayahuasca
It taste like bitter tea,
like when you leave the tea bag in too long.
Felt nothing

After 20minutes
I felt sick
The ayahuasca is also a poison
So you have to get the right amount or else....
It is also medicinal
Gets ride of parasites and stuff
Works like a cleanse

I threw up violently
To the point nothing was left
Started to leave the bathroom,
when I threw up again
Thank God I only drank water and
my tummy was empty.

I started t o walk back to my friends
when I realised I barely had coordination
Like walking on crashing waves
and my limbs where jelly like
When I finally managed to sit
I would close my eyes and I can see a giant bonfire

I started to panic a little
I had no idea what I got myself into
I felt like I was vibrating
Nothing can prepare you for it

I told myself to relax
I closed my eyes and I said
"I am open to receive all good and
positive things the universe and God  wants me to receive".

I never got my visions
But I did turn into a boa
and I could hear someone or something whispering in my left ear
Also when someone started to ask me if I was okay
it started off in English and half way it was a different language

I felt like I was trembling
But my body was perfectly still

Suddenly I wanted to seduce the men at my table
I wanted the hot aussie, the Swedish guy and the frenchie was back up
Fuck it I wanted all three at the same time
I started plotting my seduction
Only problem too many bitches at the table
The had wives and girlfriends

For being out of it I was actually very lucid
It didn't cloud my thought process.
All the animals and insects became so much clearer.

At midnight it was bedtime...
Had the aussie walk me back to my hut
It was near impossible to walk on water
Unfortunately couldn't shake the girlfriend.
Funny even on hallucinogenic and horny as hell
To the point where I was plotting orgies
I am still not attracted to women.

They knew what I was up too
They started flirting with me.

I was so not prepared for that surge of sexuality
Multiple partners has never been my thing
Not even as a fantasy.

I was so wide awake and full of energy
Even at the height of the experience I wanted to just dance
under the stars.
Most people can not even move on this stuff
And get very very sick
The whole trip is "suppose" to last 4 hours

In bed I just curled up into a ball
Taking in all the music from the forest
Staring at the night sky
(Cannot view the sky from my hut)
Slept without my netting
No bugs got me!!

Was up bright and early
Just layer their
Went for breakfast
Scrambled eggs and fruit
I was starving

Breakfast came back 15min later
That was rough
I just spent the day in my hammock
curled up under my blue fleece blanket

I didn't trust myself around people
There was no way in hell
I had no intention of fucking the guides
Orgy part had run its course
But still....
Restless.....

Napped a lot
Felt good
Managed to eat just a small portion of fish.
I think it might work as an appetite suppressant too
Was not hungry all day
Did not get sick again
Guess I wasn't filled with toxins
Others that try it hate it after....

I was told I need more ayahuasca
That's why I didn't get my visions.

I left the next day
Thought about staying with the shaman a few days
But I had enough rain
I barely wore my poncho
and was bare foot 95% of the time.

Love being bare foot
I like to feel the earth beneath me
Even in the city

Took a private ride back
Cost twice the fare of the bus $7
But it got me back a few hours faster
Also didn't have to go through the control centers
We were 25kilometres from the Colombian boarder
It is very dangerous and they try to smuggle in drugs.

Apparently the military  likes to strip search beautiful women
But if you tell them you are pregnant no one touches you.

We drove through cloud forest
So hauntingly beautiful
Saw waterfalls everywhere was just breath taking
We got to be on either side of the Andes
And reached the highest peak of the pan American highway

Got back into Quito around 9PM
By 915PM I was freshly showered
and out on the town ready to dance. 

Map of Ecuador with el Cuyabeno marked

Map of el Cuyabeno