Tena

Our next stop was Tena (pronounce it however the heck the you like, I heard at least ten different pronounciations from the locals alone). Tena was pretty much just an entry point for our jungle tour. So, as planned, we got there, found an arguably good tour agency, spent the night, complained to each other about the accommodations, and set out for the Amazon.

Something of note: Tena was built at the junction of two medium sized rivers. About two months before we got there, a heavy rain increased the water level in those rivers by over twenty feet and flooded the entire city. Workers were laying down brand new cobblestone streets on their main avenue while we where there. Laying them, hunched over, by hand, in the rain; it did not look fun...at all!