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The hot springs is on the edge of a small village  in the Andes on the road from Quito to the Amazon Rainforest. We left the hot springs mid morning and headed back to Quito to catch a plane for a short 40 minute flight over the Andes to Coca.  From Coca we took a motorized canoe on the  Napo River to Sacha Lodge, a private reserve.  Once we arrived at the reserve we were transported in dugout canoes to the lodge on Pilchicocha Lake. We settled into our cabin and after dark went on an evening walk in the jungle. At six o'clock, just before night fall,  the six o'clock cicada begins its  chorus . Our days were filled with exploration. We hiked into the jungle, climbed the observation towers to for bird watching and paddled along the blackwater creeks. Midday we would return to the lodge usually doing as little as possible because it was so humid. Any movement and we would become drenched. It was a strange feeling for me to have sweat dripping off my hands, wri