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Iquitos Slideshow
Iquitos
Travel Blogs from Iquitos, Peru
The Amazon
We spent the night at Mad Mick’s and headed out for the jungle bright and early at 6:45 a.m. We took a car to Nauta, and from there it was all by boat. The Amazon River starts where the rivers Ucayali and Maranon meet. It is so wide that in parts ...
Dag 4 i jungelen
... oss bortover til lobbyen i bekmorkna - og med alle innsekter og dyr. Hjelp, det er best à ikke tenke pà det. Pà kvelden i Iquitos skulle vi finne et sted og spise middag. Stedet het The Yellow Rose of Texas ...
Our journey in Peru's Amazon jungle
... it "Look, we’ve come full circle! You’re home – be free, be free!" I thought it was hilarious! Iquitos is nothing like I was expecting, but everything I was hoping for. Ricardo, a 22-year-old, bright-eyed Peruvian, was ...
May 03, 2012
Peruvian Amazon and Iquitos
I flew out of Lima and landed in Iquitos on what seemed like a very short flight. My first shock was how hot and humid it was. Little did I know this would be the most comfortable temperature I would experience for a week. I taxied ...
Iquitos
... die indigene Urbevoelkerung, die sich nicht bekehren lassen wollte. (Auch heute gibt es in der Region von Iquitos rund 16 verschiedene Urvolksgruppen!) In den 60er Jahren wurde Erdoel entdeckt und spielt bis heute neben dem Tourismus ...
What is worse? DEET or Mozzie diseases
After our first day in the Amazon, I am seriously questioning which is worse: smothering yourself in DEET or getting a tropical disease...I am beginning to think the latter! DEET is so wrong, and it smells like if you inhale it, you first born will have ...
Lima to Iquitos
... Graeme on Myles' Ipod touch through Skype using free airport wifi and talked to them for ten minutes before boarding the plane to Iquitos. Unfortunately it was too early to call my dad. The plane ride was really neat because you could see the blanket of ...
The Amazon
... were lots of nature walks in the jungle, which didn´t really produce that many animal sightings ---- my understanding is that since Iquitos is a larger, more developed city & surrounding area, you do need to get deeper into the jungle to see many ...
A different Way of Life
... in a wee hostel near the airport and the next day we flew to Iquitos, a jungle village on the Amazon in the north of Peru. Iquitos can be only reached by water or air. The plane journey was fantastic, with views of the Andes and then the winding curves ...
Amazon, Day 3!!
... blew my mind! It was so pretty in every direction. We slowly made our way home (boat, bus, plane that was, of course, delayed). I was sad to be back in Lima but so fulfilled and happy with all our memories of an AWESOME weekend in Peru's Amazon jungle!! ...
Welcome to the Jungle
Hello World, I am currently in iquitos in an internet cafe called Soho, pretty exciting i know. So some of you are probably wondering what I´ve been up to so far, pretty good question so i´ll answer, starting at the ...
Medicinal Properties of the Plants of the Amazon
Iquitos Iquitos is a city in Peru that is located deep in the heart of the amazon reforest. If you want to check out the Peruvian amazon reforest this is where you would start. Iquitos is known as one of the most ...
Jungle Time
... is a 2 hour car ride from Iquitos and up until 6 years ago the only way to get here was on a 15 hour ferry from Iquitos. Development was soon on the heels of this new road and the town has its own brewery and everyone now has a mobile phone! Honda ...
Flora and Fauna
In the morning we cleaned the poo off of our hiking shoes from the zoo and got ready for the Jungle walk. Our guide Larry picked up his Machete and motioned for the jungle right behind the lodge. We suggested an easier walk to the river via the ...
What Kind of Monkey (Mono) Are You?!
... with ladybug accents!! I cant wait to see what Jill gets!! We are back in the hustle and bustle of Iquitos. Carnival might be starting tomorrow and we hope to catch some of those festivities. Mostly parades I think and throwing ...
On the Amazon
16th Oct. cont. Arrived into Iquitos at around 8.30pm and got a taxi to our room at Hotel La Casona, luckily the room is in the middle of the hotel and not on the street as there are hundreds of motorbikes and moto taxis racing up and down which are ...
The Amazon
... his name!) are visiting from Upstate New York and Carol is a history teacher. Beth is a Spanish teacher. She also lived in Peru previously for two years. After dinner we went on another night walk and we saw a Poison Dart Frog, which is ...
Iquitos / Dzungla d.2
W nocy bardzo urocze byly migajace w ciemnosci swietliki. Pozniej wyrwala nas ze snu starsza ulewa. Krotko po 5:00 zaczyna piac kogut budzac wszystkich do zycia. Dzielimy sie obowiazkami - Robin wraz z bratem i wujkiem ida po sieci, a my tluczemy w ...
Iquitos / Dzungla d.3
... szerokosc teraz juz rzeke trzeba przeprawic sie w malym, 2-osobowym kanoe. Zaraz po powrocie to Tamshiyacu lapiemy lodz do Iquitos. Wpadamy do domu, pakujemy sie, zegnamy i idziemy z Duncanem na lunch do pierwszej lepszej restauracji. Pozniej wymieniamy ...
Leticia - > Santa Rosa - > Iquitos d.1
... sie doczekac!!! Do poniedzialku jeszcze 2 dni, takze jutro idziemy do ZOO i wieczorem jakis balet, a w niedziele pozwiedzamy Iquitos. Robin ma kompa i internet, takze wieczor uplywa na nadrabianiu blogowych zaleglosci i pozniejszych rozmowach z Robinem. ...
Jungle, like I've never seen it before
... play music at top volume, and I frequently found myself shouting to be heard, even indoors. The coolest thing about Iquitos, I thought, was Belen, a shanty-suburb along the river. Belen itself has about 5,000 people and is unique because during half ...
River boat to the amazon
Insane 5 days on an amazon river cargo boat sleeping in a hammock! reading, writing and chatting all day, drinking coconut milk viewing amazing clear amazon ...