Ecuador’s Amazonian territory remained a backwater until the discovery of oil in the late Twentieth Century.

The history of San Jose de Payamino is a three-stranded story, taking in the history of the community itself, the history of the lowlan

Electricity arrived in late February at San Jose de Payamino.

This blog is something of a novelty: for the first time, I am writing about Payamino from the relative safety of an English living room

It started raining just after four am. We hadn’t had any rain for over week - a rare thing in Payamino.

Every evening in San Jose de Payamino I go down to the river for a wash, it’s one of the simple joys of living there, getting rid of t

Life in the jungle has its perils and pitfalls; spending any time out here requires a certain amount of personal preparation.

After my first couple of months in Payamino, I received a suggestion from HQ in Denmark that I should spend a few days upriver in the in

When I first met Wilson Freire, the man who would be leading our accounting course, I attempted to warn him of how basic conditions wer

With the six-month anniversary of my arrival in San Jose de Payamino only a week away, it seems about time that I should provide some k