January 15

Tena to Coca

15.01.2012

We had a lovely little hotel in Tena, right on the river. Woke up this morning and birdwatched from bed! After breakfast in the riverside dining room, we did a little walkabout town before going to the bus depot. We caught a different bus company, more local, less touristy! Took less than 5 hours from Tena to Coca. Very many stops with people jumping on and off the bus wherever they wished and the conductor somehow knew how much to charge them for their trip from A to B. At one point we had a little girl on the bus with her young chicken in a bag with just it's head sticking out! I guess she had bought her to take home to fatten or for eggs. Although the scenery was great, very mountainous with precipitous drops, it has seemed to be a people day because of all the different people we saw on the bus and the road. So you get two pictures today, Albert making friends on the bus and a very young girl with her younger sibling. We have managed two days on the road without having anyone who spoke English help us out. This is due to Don's study of Spanish before we left and it has worked, halting as it is, it works! Tomorrow the jungle awaits us!