Rio Negro, Ecuador
- La Puerta del Amazonas in Mera, Ecuador
- Michel & Maria on a bicycle bypass
- A rain forest bug on Julie’s ring finger
We cycled down out of the Andes into the Amazon basin today. The “Route of the Cascades” is a popular bike ride. Of the five tunnels on the way, four have bypasses for cyclists; and waterfalls are everywhere you look. We biked with two French cyclists touring Ecuador and turned around at “The door to the Amazon”. We spent the night at Vrindavan, a yoga retreat 3km from the highway in the jungle and had our first soaking rain since Panama. This is the rain forest after all. I stayed at the original Vrindabn, in India, in 1976. It is the Holy City for the Hare Krishna sect of Hinduism.
- Pushing up the last 3k, in the rain & unpaved, to Vrindavan
- We ate delicious vegetarian meals at Vrindavan
