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Andyjs, sounds awesome. What was the reason you were there, for yourself, part of a planned trip, or something different.
Electricity truth be told, i could give up tomorrow, i actually believe its a paradoxical subject. On one hand its clearly made humanity happy due to needed advancements, yet on the other, its blurring the core elements of what living & happiness is and restricting the ability to even remotely obtaining it.
When you say no running water, as in you had to collect it yourself?
How did you go about this, things like drinking water, showers ect...
Three things i believe i wouldn't like & would have to find a solution.
Not having 3 showers a day.
Humidity
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It was a trip for my school's biology dept. It also included a week in the Galapagos and a week in other various parts of Ecuador.
As far as water, our boat (~30 foot steel canoe with an outboard motor) had a couple tanks of potable water (and a bunch of 3-liters of Coke, South American Coke is made with real cane sugar too, none of this syrupy crap we have in the US). Bathing was done in the silty river. We used biodegradable soap and our native guide also showed us a plant that produced a sort of natural soap that I tried out one day (didn't work very well).
The humidity was incredible and the bugs were both horrible and amazing. I used lots of bugspray that kept off mosquitoes, but left with hundreds of fly bites. We slept under mosquito netting as well.
