A Day In Rainforest Of South America - Village Of Mindo Ecuador / Hummingbird Town & Chocolate Tour
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here as
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the recording of this Wednesday February
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5th
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2025 I am in Kito
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Ecuador but myself and my group going to
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be going over to mindo m i n do m n Doo
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doing some things over there on the
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outskirts of this town and just see
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where the day leads quite a full agenda
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I'm looking forward to it and I'm
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inviting you to join me shall you some
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sort of piece of artwork here in the
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park near our hotel it's like a a
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centipede maybe or some sort of insect
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well maybe not because it has say 1 2 3
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4 five sets of legs or only 10 legs
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maybe not a centipede but some some sort
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of insect here this is La Carolina Park
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pronounced a little differently than I
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would say Carolina but spelled the same
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learned that yesterday for people I was
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with the group today as it was yesterday
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and will be for the next series of days
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next few days and then going to a
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different area of Ecuador might change a
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little bit but as of now it's myself my
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aunt my uncle my mom and my aunt and
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uncle's two
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friends from church that they have so
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it's our group and we are with a driver
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and a guide who are also going to be
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taking us over to mindo today as well
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there's some officers on horses over
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there you take a look there's a 1 two
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three four
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horses and the officers are on Horseback
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a little police substation here in this
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park actually
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actually showed the other side of this
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yesterday as I was strolling through but
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here's the back side if you will there a
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little artistic rendering of one of the
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officers a big thumbs up right there not
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just horseback but also
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motorcycle official
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motorcycles been driving a bit oh look
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at this car
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needed to get some fuel in the vehicle
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that's getting us to our next spot so
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they stopped off
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here get a little
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gas price of gas
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here say
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diesel what does that say diesel
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$1.79 extra 271 and super premium 364
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wow that's a big difference between
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super premium and extra Diesel's only a
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buck diesel must be the fuel of choice
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around here and right here at the fuel
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stop is a looks like there's a coffee
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shop
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called
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chemos I get a the cup of J Ecuadorian
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Brew Cafe Con
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Leche coffee with
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cream so did you did it has sweeten and
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everything I put a little sugar extra
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sugar in it does the cream come with it
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they make it with the cream on top
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yeah all right that was a took a lot
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longer to get over here than I was
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expecting for some reason I was thinking
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it was going to be like maybe an hour
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hour and a half it's probably about two
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two and a half hours we were cruising
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over here we have arrived in the town of
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mindo
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Mi
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India right here amongst the hillsides
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of the mountains
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clouds up
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there going to do a variety of things
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here in this town really cool looking
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Town hopefully get to go walk
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around we're going to start off with
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some think we're going to start off with
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some butterflies and some
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hummingbirds and I'm really hoping to
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maybe see some
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toucans I saw some sides for toucans I
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think I might see some twocans F I
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didn't get see any boies but might see
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some here all right going in oh wow okay
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plants oh my gosh these are so
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larvas those are the larvas
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yeah wow look at
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that what's the
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chanting collection
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stuff
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chras
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the step two larva
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remember the Butterfly House that BR
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green
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Gard
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here oh okay here we
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go oh neat they're all in
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those that is a huge butterfly look at
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that thing is this like little ban
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pieces of
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now that we're in here they're all
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waking
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here see over here
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guys look at these guys
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very I've been in quite a few butterfly
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enclosures at different places I think
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this is the most amount of butterflies
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I've ever seen in a small space this is
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yeah you just look how many over here in
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this corner alone
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this was a mission getting from where we
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were in keto took a
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it's hard to see them but this is not
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you know there open areas where to
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See's hundreds and hundreds of them in
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here thees I
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one
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don't a
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while we don't know probably be trans
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you never know trans butterflies
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Open Your Wings open your
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wings maybe I got too
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close is that what you do to get them to
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open their wings his whistle oh it did
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it worked it worked it
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work there we go there it is
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you're like the butterfly
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whisper look at that that almost looks
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like a mosquito with beautiful
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wings oh good one the body doesn't the
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body look like a mosquito
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yeah I don't even know what kind that
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one would be
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I like the birds of paradise FL flowers
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right there
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too the these these guys that's a birds
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of bird of paradise yeah right there one
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but yeah that could be these up here
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hanging down those are hanging Lobster
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Claw
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honas and they also grow vertically and
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they then they're just plain old Lobster
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Claw heliconia okay
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all right you keep posing we going to
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get your hand in there he was on the
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ground I picked him up oh you oh that's
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the one
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yeah there's a goose and some ducks I
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think that might be a
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goose froling around in the
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huh all these different plants there's
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hundreds of them are all they have names
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written on the side of them to identify
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which one each one of these are
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hi dog there's a lot of bears around
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here and
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pumas I think I was asking the guide
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obviously this means
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stop this is a really cool
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Town Meo
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ludos
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Amigos that was the precursor the the
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theater release version before three
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caberos it was kind of the movie that
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morphed into three caberos if you will
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there was the one right before
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it not Ecuador but still still the same
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name I really want to see a 2K in
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somewhere not just on a mural
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Little Hummingbird feeding its young
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right here got they also got the looks
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like maybe it just hatches a little a
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little baby at least that's what I'm
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gathering that's my interpretation of
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this piece of artwork right here I guess
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you could rent these four-wheelers
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through here this dogs
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chilling looking down the little main
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stretch here love this view the mountain
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there with the Peaks the haze the cloud
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there pretty neat little
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view little pups cute little pups
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everywhere cute little
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pups just walk in the
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streets hey pups how you
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doing there's a little taxi stand next
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to the church
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biggest I've ever seen oh my
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goodness I mean that's like that is
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huge dog dog dogs
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everywhere hey buddy look like
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Tammy uhoh get off short dirty you look
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like Timmy
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place you're really in the
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jungle this over
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here thick jungle brush
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that's some dirt clay
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wow up on the observation tower
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now pretty good little walk up
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thing this whole thing is Shake
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literally
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shaking it's like creaking and
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shaking definitely not uh standards
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okay got it
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mama what a view up here beautiful view
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my
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goodness yeah they're up here there's
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honeybirds all down in those trees
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they're so
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fast one on that wire on this side see
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two of sure do wire that's a Bird on a
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Wire bird remember that Mel Gibson movie
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Goldie
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hot so it's a throwback
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yeah for Mom the real reason we actually
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come to the Overlook isz you got to do
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this zip line right here there's a zip
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line right above your head right here
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mama get ready you ready you ready to do
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that zip line yeah I'm ready you going
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to do it you game what do you think I'm
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going back
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hit here your chickens rooster yeah look
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at that the wings move so fast you can't
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even on the camera you can see the
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moving but they're moving so fast it
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doesn't even show up human eye but on
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camera you can see looks like they're
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just barely
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fluttering that's so neat and when they
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go by it's
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like with
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the who are
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you you're not a hummingbird get out of
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here humingbird but he's cute there's
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the there comes the hummingbird right in
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front of
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me Canadian refug in Ecuador with the
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hummingbirds and mind how cool is this
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look at them look at
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Kingdom I'm going try something
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else let's try this
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like
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your that is something
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else that is
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amazing
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that did
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you he's a little what is happen what is
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this this is like real life right now
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I I don't want a motion picture you 10
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of
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them I don't want a motion picture
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coming
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babies at this tiny
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one at
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him it's just full of nectar oh yeah
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nectar it up see how
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you I present this gift to you humming
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birds
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oh come and get it oh on where it go
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where it
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go that is called The
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Beehive something or other
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cool scar when you're all set up they're
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coming in
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like this would be a good place to get
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the hummingbird Ecuador magnet so I
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think I'm going to do that I also got
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some stickers over
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here yeah this is technically the M
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these still got a see2 can look at that
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that did not take
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long did not take long look look at this
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they're flocking around
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us all right now they
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left they want to know what it is but
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they're not going
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in think I'm figure it out
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me Juice It Up let me juice it up for
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you get a little juice going tripping
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the juice now you like it a juice
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huh I get you more juice some Juicy
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Juicy Juice there he goes there you got
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a nibble happy to say the tin roof is
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letting us know that it is raining in
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the rainforest so really is giving it
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the proper V
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I got my magnet here says a mindo on it
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and I got the little rain rainforest
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also got this little little lollipop
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thing interesting that this Frozen font
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almost looks like the the movie Frozen
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Disney
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font at least to me
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anyway a little speed hump right down
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here you can't really see it maybe show
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up on camera is a little speed hump with
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the road kind of emulates up there's
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really nothing saying that there is one
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and again you probably can't even tell
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from the camera view but there's a speed
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hump there made and disguise by the road
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itself taking a little break for lunch
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but I wasn't that hungry so I'm going to
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just take this time to walk around on my
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own for the next hour and then meet back
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up with the group and they're done
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eating a lot of little artwork here
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painted on the walls as well double or
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what's that say dble dble via I was
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strolling through town there were three
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officers they said need to check your ID
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said they did told them with a tour
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group and they were eating and I'm just
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strolling along let me on this okay
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you're good to go was
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it feels good to get some steps in
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walking around
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look at this this used to be a pizza
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place or maybe it still
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this I don't know if I still an active
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pizza place or not
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building no I don't think this is open
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at least not at the moment anyway
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town I think there's a river down here
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too I was noticing driver drove by it
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let's if I can go find the river
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beautiful little walking path I realized
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it got closer saw our it's all Barb
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wired up so can't go past it there's a
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little bamboo Bridge goes down by the
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river
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oh that's the there's the police
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department
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town old doggy there waiting by the
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supermarket or the mini
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market you're waiting for doggy there a
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little chair it's like a hammock chair
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some T-shirts up
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here all properly adorned with the
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hummingbirds musical instruments check
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it out there's
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Mickey Luigi and Superman SpongeBob and
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others
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oh my gosh look at
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this look at
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this I was just at ABY Road and now I'm
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here with all the different Ecuadorian
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animals crossing their own ABY
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Road that's so cool that's so
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fun it looks like they're checking
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everybody everybody's ID is down here
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next to the MEO sign just check theirs
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as well
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all right I think now we're going to
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look at some two
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cans cheers to two cans
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all right so just got some info just
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sharing that info with
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you puppy that evidently two cans are
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seen at 4 a.m. not 400 p.m.
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who knew this is what this is what we
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asked around we went to a place so
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where's the where the best place to see
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two cans I go oh 4 a.m. not 4:00
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p.m. not sure if that's true but I I
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guess you got to go on a mission to find
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two cans two or 3 hours before the sun
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comes up now we're going to do I guess I
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don't think two cans are going to work
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out I had worst luck with two cans we're
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going to go to this place called yumbo
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chocolate and do a chocolate tour yumos
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yumbo
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chocolate right there you know what this
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almost looks like the same exterior
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casing of a flux capacitor
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right man I'm so disappointed about the
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freaking two cans what the heck man 4:00
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a.m. this photo is not a 4: a.m. photo
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the sun's out that's a
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twocan what do you think dog what do you
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think what's your opinion on the two
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cans at 4:00 a.m. is it 4:00 a.m. or 4
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p.m.
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what's the best time to see
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2 are you too busy looking at the
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ground no thoughts
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huh what do you think Pooch 4:00 400
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p.m. yeah where that little that little
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touristy guide Place said the tour
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starts at 6:00 a.m. tomorrow to 9:00
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a.m. so we're not going to do it not 400
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p.m. okay so no two cans got my hopes up
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again look at these little gnomes right
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here with a vat full of chain
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so my name Isle I will be your guide
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chocolate chocolate we step through the
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door here there like some little
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dinosaurs down here
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this look at all the is
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a a TX
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pterodactyl
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is yellow that means that is our naal
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caca okay for us it's pretty important
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to use this type of caca because has
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better flavor and better smell we are
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making chocolate okay so now this has
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the ability to absorb smells and flavors
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so for example we have coffee beins here
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okay so this is a coffee tree and now we
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are trying to mix the smells and flavors
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okay so that's how it works so if we're
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ready we can go inside use C beans cacao
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beans to mix the flavors that's
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awesome yeah there's
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closer National the yellow one are meth
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better taste better smell okay more Str
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in ever
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sense this is our e this is a CCN 51 or
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Kaka de R okay that's the name so the
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CCN 51 is what we are going to try to
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taste so have you ever seen or taste the
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fruit before yes yes no yes yes never no
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oh see inside maybe no okay we're open
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today so C and 51 means collection
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Castro Nal 51 okay
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collection about the experiment that
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they made Castro is the last name of the
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scientist who made this
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Kow and it's sweet right the sweet suck
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sweet yes yes cuz we're going to try we
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are just suck like Bean don't bite okay
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don't bite the bean so you can take one
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I just reach it and grab one yeah oh
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H pretty good
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huh just suck it just suck itone just
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suck it is pretty
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good so yes it is figure looking good
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okay it's pretty important for us we're
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going to put our beans here for two days
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between this banana leaves
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covered just like this okay so the
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banana leaves has yeasts on their bodies
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so we have a type of natural chemical
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process so the yeast produce alcohol and
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the alcohol makes that the temperature
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increase and when the temperature
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increase the embryo which is this part
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of the bean this how you can see here
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and there's one that you can see
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here okay this part of the embryo dies
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okay so we need the embryo dice in this
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process okay that's the purpose of
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fermentation okay so two days
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here one day here okay now we have uh
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the temperature regulate and we have a
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little bit of pool not like here but we
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still having a little bit so the fruit
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flies are going to eat all this pool for
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20 minutes and
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120° okay
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okay so what's the purpose of this first
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we're going to reduce humidity here in
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the dve process we have a seven %c so we
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put the beans with the shells here okay
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cuz if we take out the shell one by one
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like you do we're going to take a lot of
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time yeah so we just grind it like this
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there you go now I don't know if you
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smell it but if you want to get closer
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to
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smell there you go
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okay
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so the idea is the more bigger shells
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stays here and sometimes the bigger knes
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so what we have to do is reg grinder
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okay okay the knes which are more heavy
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stay on the floor and the little shells
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just fly away okay so that's ready out
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separate
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okay what we do with the little shs we
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can use it for the for the trees like
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fertilization okay so it's not too
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much grinder the knes you remember the
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knes grinder the knes to make chocolate
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so the first thing that we are going to
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have is a facee of chocolate that we can
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see in the video
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okay shine a color a good food a good
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not to okay
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so now he's a
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flavor and the fruit and the kakat tea
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we are going to use it to clean or fall
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yes o
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trunk oh that's good what's in
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there do you remember the
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fruit chocolate barbecue sauce so for
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you again very
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good
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okay going to be more acid than beer
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okay so that's how we difference the
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chocolate thank you very much does
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really have that much of a
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taste it's very
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powdery disappears 60% with coffee lower
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the percentage the sweeter it
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is did you like it you like
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yeah I'm not big on coffee yes like
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that I like that too yeah maybe their
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favorite one about this before I worked
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here so the next one 17 Chile with sea
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salt chili with sea
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salt 70% chili with sea
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salt you like it spicy yes
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spicy coming
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CH
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than thank you you're welcome pretty
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good tour a lot of little samples little
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small samples of each of the different
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percentages so evidently 100% is a
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little more bitter and sweeter it goes
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down so 70% is a little sweet 60% is
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even sweeter than 70% and then there's
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probably about 10 different samples but
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they were just little tiny little tiny
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tidbits but I don't really eat a lot of
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chocolate so I definitely definitely
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feeling the chocolate flowing through me
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the moment was also kind of interesting
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there was a there a our group did four
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not not our whole group did did the
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entire tour but four of us did but then
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there was two other people on the tour
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and I was the only one that decided not
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to have my face covered in chocolate the
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reasoning behind it is supposed to be
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kind of like a facial supposed to be
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cleansing for the pores on the face to
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take the hot chocolate or the the hot
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chocolate I should say and lather it on
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not hot chocolate but chocolate that is
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hot they take like a paintbrush and she
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was like lathering it on everyone's face
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and I opted out of that that that
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experience but yeah
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well that's going to do it for today
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thanks for watching I'll see you in the
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next video the
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