Week 2

Some more pictures (rafting ones are down in the last post):

This is how a pineapple grows - there are a bunch of them growing around the one on top; for some reason this blew my mind

Beginning of a jungle hike to inspect guayusa trees in the jungle

This hurts.

What the inside of cacao looks like- the seeds (which become chocolate eventually) are covered in a fruity sap that you eat to clear off

Cacao seeds

LOOK AT THIS THING

Eating dinner in a Kichwa community- it's called 'mitos' - chicken or fish (chicken here) cooked in the big palm leaves with spices and other stuff- some of the best chicken I've ever had