点评:I had been looking forward to my Amazon tour and was so excited. 4 days 3 nights Yasunin Yaku Warmi, Cocaya River on the Peru borderAbout as far into the Ecuadorian jungle as you can go. $800 for tour, not including transport to Coca, $300, hotel in Coca, tips...... plus $40 to spend a day with guide before tour, you will see that included lunch. I was told when I met him I was buying lunch. That "day" with my guide was maybe 3 hours, I paid for lunch. Taxi to an ethnobotanical center called Nucanchi Sacha Causay, of course a "tip" there for guide and myself, and then a taxi back to hotel, about $90 I was surprised his English was pretty good, that too changed, seemed like he forgot the English he knew by the hour.
Left the next morning for Yaku Warmi. Most of the day on boats. Was not welcome upon arrival. I was 1 person and not worth their time.
Spaghetti with meat sauce for dinner, not what I expected to be eating in the Amazon Jungle, and it never was.
Many things I was supposed to do didn't happen. See "schedule" in pictures.
Day 2 NO painting the face, Tonight walk, and NO learning about Kichwa culture.
Day 3 NO learning abut medicinal plants and NO piranha fishing. We went to see parrots getting salt from trees? because I can find no info on that anyplace, that was cut short due to color of my shirt. NO fishing for piranha. I was looking forward to that. Fish is what the people in the area eat, I had no fish at all, well I had a traditional meal waiting for the slow canoe in the restaurant in Nuevo Rocafuerte.
Day 4 NO lagoon. There was a military exercise, new flags being raised at the Peru/ Ecuador border. That's what we did, of course I had no clue what was going on. One the fast canoe back my guide sat on the other side of the boat and said nothing to me.
My guide made sure I knew that usually there were at least 5 people and how much he made in tips. He was poor and wasn't making any money with just me. I over tipped out of guilt and am now angry with myself for that one.
I was unwelcome and unwanted, ignored by the people there. My guide forgot what we were supposed to do, instead doing as he pleased. I was left alone in a store in Nuevo Rocafuerte, he had asked if he could get beer, what could I say? He then disappeared for awhile. I wonder what?
To add insult to injury another guide service saw my post on a Facebook page and sent a message in screenshot, they had a similar problem with the same guide and don't use him anymore.
As you can also see in pictures, Akangau also made sure I know how much the trip cost them and that they also made no money from me.
Orlando Shiguange #304 licensed guide is an independent guide.
IMHO Akangau should have just told me a solo trip wasn't possible. I picked the wrong tour. They definitely picked the wrong guide. I lost.
翻译:我一直期待着我的亚马逊之旅,并且非常兴奋。4 天 3 夜,亚苏宁雅库瓦米,秘鲁边境的科卡亚河,大概是你能到达的最深处的厄瓜多尔丛林。800 美元的旅行费用,不包括前往科卡的交通费、300 美元、科卡的酒店、小费......再加上 40 美元,用于在旅行前与导游一起度过一天,你会发现这包括午餐。我遇到他时,他告诉我要买午餐。和导游一起度过的“一天”可能有 3 个小时,我付了午餐费。打车去了一个叫 Nucanchi Sacha Causay 的民族植物学中心,当然在那里给导游和我“小费”,然后打车回酒店,大约 90 美元,我很惊讶他的英语相当不错,这也变了,似乎他每小时都忘记了他所知道的英语。
第二天早上出发前往雅库瓦米。大部分时间都在船上。抵达时没有受到欢迎。我一个人,不值得他们花时间。
晚餐吃的是肉酱意大利面,这不是我期望在亚马逊丛林吃到的食物,而且从来都不是。
很多我应该做的事情都没有发生。见图片中的“日程安排”。
第 2 天没有画脸,今晚散步,没有学习基丘亚文化。
第 3 天没有学习药用植物,也没有钓食人鱼。我们去看鹦鹉从树上取盐?因为我在任何地方都找不到这方面的信息,由于我衬衫的颜色,这一过程被缩短了。没有钓食人鱼。我很期待。鱼是当地人民吃的,我一点鱼都没有,我在 Nuevo Rocafuerte 的餐厅吃了一顿传统餐,等待缓慢的独木舟。
第 4 天没有泻湖。有军事演习,秘鲁/厄瓜多尔边境升起了新旗帜。这就是我们所做的,当然我不知道发生了什么。在快艇返回时,我的导游坐在船的另一边,什么也没对我说。
我的导游向我保证,通常至少有 5 个人,以及他能赚多少小费。他很穷,光凭我一个导游是赚不到钱的。我因为内疚而多给了小费,现在我为此而生自己的气。
我不受欢迎,不受欢迎,被那里的人忽视。我的导游忘记了我们应该做什么,而是随心所欲。我独自留在 Nuevo Rocafuerte 的一家商店里,他问能不能买点啤酒,我能说什么呢?然后他消失了一段时间。我想知道他怎么了?
更糟糕的是,另一家导游服务公司在 Facebook 页面上看到了我的帖子,并截图发送了一条消息,他们也遇到了同样的问题,不再使用他了。
正如你在图片中看到的,Akangau 还向我保证,这次旅行花了他们多少钱,他们也没有从我身上赚到钱。
奥兰多 Shiguange #304 持证导游是独立导游。
在我看来,Akangau 应该直接告诉我,单独旅行是不可能的。我选错了行程。他们肯定选错了导游。我输了。