Amazon Jungle in Ecuador 1

Amazon Jungle in Cuyabeno, Ecuador.
March 2013.
This is first day of a four days tour.
I went to Cuyabeno National Park in March 2013, and I chose the Cuyabeno Lodge's four days and three nights program. We arrived at the Jungle Resort in the afternoon the day before (the condition of this Lodge is really good, it can be even called resort), and left after breakfast on the fourth day. So, the so-called four days and three nights program has only two full days in the jungle.
The most common Amazon jungle tour is four days and three nights, and there are shorter or longer ones. If you really love the rainforest, or want to do research, you can stay longer; if it is shorter than this, excluding the time spent on the way back and forth, the time you may really spent in the jungle is too little, not very cost-effective.
Activities in the jungle are much the same. Swimming in wide rivers or lagoon every day; watching pink dolphins; fishing for piranhas; jungle walking to find animals, plants and insects; night jungle walking; canoeing; visiting native villages.
Animals include various monkeys, sloths, crocodiles, boa constrictors, pink dolphins. The top animals in the Amazon jungle are the cougar (puma) and the jaguar, but these two animals generally hide in the depths of the jungle. Even senior tour guides have only seen a few times, so tourists should not have such expectation. Insects include all kinds of frogs (including poisonous frogs that the natives used to make poisonous arrows), all kinds of ants, and all kinds of butterflies. There are so many kinds of plants that I can hardly remember them, and I only care how big the giant trees in the jungle are.
After a rest, everyone gathered at the restaurant for tea and snacks. I saw many people gathered outside the restaurant. It turned out that there was a crocodile by the river. The restaurant staff brought some meat and threw it to the crocodile.
At dusk, the speedboat set off to a large lake formed in the rainy season (this lake is a large flat grassland in the dry season), and several speedboats circled the lake constantly, trying to circle the pink dolphins in the middle. This trick is still useful, we have seen pink dolphins swept across the water a few times, but it is far away and very quick, and it is impossible to take pictures. The locals still pay more attention to the protection of pink dolphins, and they are not too aggressive.
After chasing pink dolphins, we went to swim in the river around sunset, the water was not so cold, and I got used to it in a minute or two after going down. For the three nights I lived there, we went to the lake to play in the water every evening. If there was a sunset, swimming in the afterglow of the sunset felt particularly peaceful and comfortable.