Here are some things that will help prepare you for the trip. Some items you will be able to use during your visit, as well as, in your spare time at home.

The cheapest waterproof camera will work if you don't think you will have much use for it after your visit to La Selva.

The Amazon Jungle offers opportunities for cultural exchange, photography, adventure, fishing, hiking, relaxation, bird watching and wildlife spotting.

The climate of tropical rainforests is usually warm and humid but never as unbearable as all the bad movies you have seen about it.

Thanks to biodiversity and top-notch guides, there is a good chance that you will see interesting animal species when visiting in the Amazon Jungle so again a cheap pair of waterproof binoculars could be just right for you.

You will certainly find many different plants in the rainforest you might want to bring a cheap magnifying glass.

A notebook of recycled paper to document your thoughts and observations about your adventure travel and ecotourism experiences in a friendly Amazon jungle lodge would be a good choice.

If you are interested in hearing birds of Eastern Ecuador, you can get Voices of New World Parrots (CD), Sounds of Neotropical Rainforest Mammals (CD) (Best Choice)

In the Book Department we recommend check Amazon’s South America category and browse for anything specific that might interest you and although expensive: The Birds of Ecuador 2 Volume Set, a two volume set written by Robert Ridgely and illustrated by Paul Greenfield, both frequent visitors to La Selva especially when compiling the Amazonian section of the book, is an exquisite masterwork, 14 years in the making, worthy of your library long past its useful days as a field guide while you visit us.

La Selva is .2 degrees below and so the stars are different from the ones seen by those of you who live in the Northern hemisphere. In the Astronomy section a very inexpensive guide, The Southern Night Sky will guide you to the Southern Cross and much, much more.

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