We arrived in Ecuador July 3 after spending our last frontier South American, with a little emotion anyway ... This boundary, located in the heart a lively market, is proving quite "folk . A bridge, which do not stop moving goods of all kinds, marks the separation between Peru and Ecuador. We spent 3 hours in this stirring, amusing finally time to solve all the papers ... The Ecuador is a tiny country, the second smallest country in South America after the Uruguay . As Peru, it is divided into three regions: the coast and ocean , the Sierra with mountains and Oriente (the Amazon). As the country is small, we move easily and quickly from one region to another, a small concentration of South America.
So we come by the odds, it is 35 degrees, bright sunshine and our first kilometers in this country are in the midst of vast plantations ( Ecuador is the largest exporter of bananas in the world) ... and 150 km, it joined Cuenca and its 2500 meters, the third largest city. Pretty town famous for its straw hats, the Panamas ... We walk in the cobbled streets of colonial buildings in the middle. Pretty town but we like the daily rain a little less ... 
From there we took the road via a Pan American pitieux in state ... Banos direction. Nice little stop to Alausi where we discover with pleasure the Saturday market and the specialty Ecuador: grilled guinea pigs ... yum! Lively and colorful. Then on a lonely road ... we meet another french camper. Flashing light and very nice little picnic with this other family. Them, they go for 4 years around the world, yet another adventure! ( http://www.poraquiporalla.com/ ) Arrive Banos under torrential rain, rain no longer seems to want to leave. We were hoping that the SUN for the end of our journey ... Banos is more than 1800 meters and the vegetation has changed, we come closer to the Amazon . So we are steering Puyo, a small town in the Amazon. The 60 kilometers from Banos to Puyo are on a beautiful road, the road of "cascades".
We organize a short tour to discover the Amazon ... Finally with the camper, we can do things! We are thus left on a track (this time it's really the last one) that goes on over (recall: the tracks are really going to 10kms/heure, bicycles are beyond us) and leads us into the Amazon forest ... Short walk and swim in a beautiful natural pool with waterfall ... Our last night in a wild environment is rocked by the sounds of the forest ... almost louder than our bivouacs in Brazilian gas stations in the middle of the truck ...
Having failed to see the animals, then we go into a very nice game reserve where Antoine having so much fun to touch all the animals ... and where the incident occurs. Too pressed to squeeze the dough to a large tapir, I slip on of the earth, but wanting to save the camera I collapse face first on a small mound of earth. In short if you do not understand everything, according to witnesses the fall was funny and quiet. By cons I now have a new smile with my 2 front teeth broken, and I finally understood the term "speechless" when he saw the head of our guide when I found ...
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