When i first time came to Cabo San Francisco, i was overhelmed by its nature,
but also very tired. It is a journey about 7 hours from Quito to San Francisco
and the last two hours lead over a country road on which it is difficult to
drive, and when it is rainy you cannot even pass it. At the end of this road
lays Cabo San Francisco, a village of 120 families with uncountable children.
It lays on the ocean side of the Pacific and all around is tropical rain forest.
By my first vist i stayed for three days and had to get used to its clima, because

I spent close to one month as a volunteer investigator for the
Fundacion in Cabo San Francisco in April of 2004, researching the
villagers' use of local plants in traditional medicine. My experience
was in every way rewarding, for I learned not only about the topic of
my study but about every aspect of life in Cabo, and I formed
relationships with the villagers and the land around them that I shall
never forget.