Instructions How To Get From Coca To Iquitos By Boat

The whole trip we divided in three parts according to three boats you have to take.


Coca (San Francisco de Orellana) => Rocafuerte

In Coca you'd better spend one day preparing for the trip. You can read about Bimbino and Bambina's preparations here.

First, you have to find a boat to Nuevo Rocafuerte. There were two companies offering this route.


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Last Preparations in Coca

Baños de Agua Santa => San Francisco de Orellana

Hitchhiking started very late that morning. In fact so late that the monkeys started worrying that they would not be able to make it until Coca that day. Reason for that was one promise they had made: the promise to clean Maria’s floors what took way longer than they have imagined.

The first part of the journey was quite easy, but once Bimbino and Bambina had reached Puyo, the provincial capital of Pastaza, the problems started. Standing at the South end of the city it was impossible to hitch a car going West. Waiting was no solution because of the low traffic. Walking however was a nightmare as the bypass road seemed to be endless. Pain in the feet and a sheer endless rain did not make the situation any better. Desperately looking forward to leave that place the monkeys were nearly about to board a coach when a truck driver stopped for them.

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Swinging Monkeys

Cuenca => Baños

To safe some time to make it early into the Amazon Basin the monkeys had decided to go to Baños by busses. First they had to take a bus to Ambato, then from Ambato to Baños. Ambato is the provincial capital of Tungurahua, and everybody who travels to Baños has to change buses here. The first trip takes around four and a half hours. Even though the monkeys left Cuenca late at night, they arrived to Ambato very early in the morning.

Once Bimbino had to leave the bus everything went so fast that still half sleeping he realized that he had forgotten Bambina on the bus only when it had already left the terminal. He had to wake up and react quickly.


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Good Times in Cuenca

Guayaquil => Santa Ana de Los Cuatro Ríos de Cuenca

Getting out of Guayaquil was quite easy even though there was no information on the Internet about how to hitchhike out of the city. What the monkeys did was what they usually do: go online, open Google maps and scan it for the toll station closest to the city. To find a bus connection they had to look for help from the people on the street. After asking five different people and receiving at least ten different answers they finally encountered a bus going their way. The toll station was called Boliche and located approximately 20 minutes east of Guayaquil.

Hitchhiking in Ecuador is just awesome, better than going by bus. You put your thumb out, wait five minutes, and you have a ride. Bimbino and Bambina made it in two rides, first to Puerto Inca, and afterwards directly to Cuenca. The road climbed and winded up into the mountains, through the mist and cold of the heights to the welcoming sunny valley of Cuenca City.

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Adventures in Guayaquil

Montañita => Guayaquil

The monkeys were standing at the road at the Southern end of Montand ñita holding their thumbs up. They were not worried at all as you always get a ride in Ecuador, especially if you are a cute little monkey. …and of cause they did. After only … minutes a truck driver stopped. Bimbino and Bambina had to jump on the back of the truck were they were sitting beside some huge barrels. Luckily none of them fell over and killed them. The ride along the coast was very pleasant with nice nice views over little fishing villages, beaches and the ocean and the wind blowing in their faces.


In Valdivia the ride was over but the next one was already encountered within minutes.


A friendly driver wanted to give them a lift until Santa Elena, the regional capital. Unfortunately his car broke down just before entering the city which resulted in an one hour walk through the incredibly not beautiful little town.


At the end Northern end of Santa Elena there was a service station, a perfect spot for cars to stop. Two business men were on their way to Guayaquil and were happy to give the monkeys a ride and listened to their traveling stories.


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A Lost Sunday

The adventures of Bimbino and Bambina had already started a few months ago, but those tales to be told later. This first story took place in the beginning of December, in a little Ecuadorian village called Montañita.

Montañita is a hot spot on the South American gringo trail, a paradise for surfers, hippies, party animals, and people who like to get high.


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