A group of explorers drift down the small Buena Esperanza river on their way to visit "neighbors", in the Amazon streets are rivers and each neighbor is just a couple hectares away! the backyard of each family is a patch of forest. The Panki Shuar family is considered "poor" in terms of Ecuador's economy, yet their backyard ends at the river bank and kids can visit their cousins 10 minutes downstream by canoe or rivertube or walk a 20 minute trail between their parents properties.