Some 10,000 people from all backgrounds, state employees and civil servants protested in Bucharest, Romania on 07.10.2009 against low wages, new retirement laws and the government in general.
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The jungle part of the Ecuador trip has suffered a few changes due to unforeseen events. Thus we will be travelling from Coca on the Via Auca and then by motorized canoe to the Noneno community where we will camp for a few days. We will then return to Coca and proceed down river towards Peru for about 10-12 hours to the border town of Nuevo Rocafuerte. From there to the Kawimeno community.
We’ll take the same route back to Coca.
These changes also mean a logistic change, as we will be travelling with camping equipment and we will sleep in a tent instead of the more expensive (and comfortable) Jungle Lodges.
Hopefully this way we will experience a more realistic version of life in the Amazon Rainforest, staying clear of the touristy sites. Our new-found guide, by the name of Sandro Ramos, is an experienced guy, licensed by the Ministry of Tourism, who has done this trip many times before. He seems very nice and knowledgeable, but he will sure test my knowledge of Spanish language to the limit.
There are a lot of celebrations during this time in Bucharest to mark the 550th anniversary of the city. I stumbled upon a traditional music concert on one of the streets in the Lipscani area and thought it would be worth a few clicks.
The trip to Ecuador which I mentioned earlier is beginning to take shape. We bought the plane tickets and will be heading deep into the Amazon jungle (did you notice that going to the Amazon jungle is always ‘deep’?) in about two months.
The trip will take us through various towns, documenting the way Ecuadoreans celebrate the ‘Day of the Dead’, then east into the jungle where we will meet the indigenous Waorani tribe - wonderful, simple and proud hunter-gatherers - and in the end we will spend a few days relaxing and sunbathing in November on the shores of the Pacific Ocean.
As we did before, this trip too will be documented and recorded in the form of a travel diary. But this time, to break the language barriers, I have decided to make it a video diary. It will take more time to produce, but the result will be worth the wait.
The diary, or parts of it, will also be present on the website of ‘Barefoot Expeditions‘ or here, the local travel agent who was kind enough to custom-build the Jungle part of the trip to suit our specific needs.
As a conclusion I leave you with zReportage from ZUMApress which features my work from Ethiopia as this week’s essay. If you don’t know what it’s about, there a text attached also, which I recommend reading.
Military parade held in Bucharest marking the end of Romania’s presence in Irak
Femeile imbracate in haine traditionale asteapta sa intre in biserica la slujba de duminica.
Satenii se indreapta catre cimitirul de langa biserica pentru a participa la un parastas.
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