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Iquitos Slideshow
Iquitos
Travel Blogs from Iquitos, Peru
Travelling on from Iquitos
Friday, April 27th 2007 Back in Iquitos at about 4am, Israel organised a motocab for us, and sent us on our way at 4.30am to the Hotel Baltazar. He was concerned for our safety and on the ferry he always made us aware that we were to be on our guard and ...
The jungle trip - biting insects
... A river bus is an excellent way to travel. The boat took 15 hours to travel upstream to Jenaro Herrera, about 300 kms from Iquitos. Overnight it was pretty cool with a river breeze and our guide noticed our discomfort. He had a couple of blankets with ...
The Mighty Amazon!
Gwahanol iawn oedd ein croeso i Iquitos i gymharu a Lima... Profiad byth gofiadwy oedd hedfan yn isel dros yr Amazon wrth baratoi i lanio ar ddarn bach o darmac wedi ei osod yn ofalus yng nganol môr o wyrddni coedwig trofannol Peru. Tref wedi ei geni ...
4th International Amazonian Shamanism Conference
... inspiring like-minded people from every corner of the globe at the 4th International Amazonian Shamanism Conference in Iquitos. The conference is run by Alan and Mariella Shoemaker and is associated with the Soga-Del-Alma Ayahuasca ...
Yurimaguas
... packed at the hotel and there was time for a quick visit to Quistococha, which is a zoo and recreation area about 15km from Iquitos. We had been warned that the zoo was horrible, with disgusting cages. This was not exactly the case. For some obscure ...
Rolling, rolling, rolling down the River
... , get off and see how people live and also to get to Coloumbia, even if it was only for a day. We returned back to Iquitos by sea-plane (which definitely counts as another mode of transport for me) and back to the Gringo bar and the shoeshine boys. ...
Jungledyret og Mowgli
... et hurtigt stop i Perus hovedstad Lima, hvor vi kunne tanke op med Piratos og andet godt sendt hjemmefra, landede vi i junglebyen Iquitos. Efter at have fundet os to jungleglade guider, Raul og Daniel, stod vi en eftermiddag paa en sejlende bunke rust, ...
Awimbabway, awimbaway.In the Jungle, the mighty...
... up to eye-balls which was a good excuse to lose him after giving him some money for lunch. At the crack of dawn I set off for Manaus. I don´t feel like I did Iquitos credit but am hoping that the jungle in Manaus will live up to my experience in ...
To Catch and Release, or Eat
... develop more stories about Jose and some of what he taught me as I explored the upper Nanay River over 300 kilometers from Iquitos Peru. Jose "Pescado fresco?" Jose brings his fingers to his mouth in the age-old sign of eating. "Comer?" He ...
Almost stranded in the jungle
... boats is probably the most hassled we've experienced so far, other than a constant flow of hawkers in Iquitos. The butterflies were slightly disappointing as we had been spoiled by an abundance of them in the rain forest. ...
Dead trees
... . The boat I was on went close to the river side so you can see birds and indigenous communities. Upon arriving in Iquitos I saw something very sad. Thousands and thousands of enormous trees that had been cut and were getting ready to be turned into ...
Geographic and Climatic Data for Iquitos
This data for Iquitos Peru is from the NASA Langley Atmospheric Science Data Research Center. Latitude: Minus 3.75 degrees south of the equator. The altitude above sea level is approximately 350 feet. The Coordinated Universal Time of Peru is ...
Monkeys, sloths and more--our Amazon experience
... Amazon have to provide everything else for themselves. Here´s a run-down of our adventure... We entered the Amazon through a town called Iquitos, which is a city of about 500k people. The town has no road access, so we decided to fly in. The ...
The Price of Gas, and the Exchange Rate in Iquitos
... it cost to build a boat like Dawn on the Amazon? I hope you will check back here as I attempt to answer those questions, and tell stories about what we see and do operating out of Iquitos Peru. Dawn on the Amazon Tours and Cruises, Iquitos ...
The last day - jungle trip
... of tiny bones. After tea we put up our own mossie net so we could read for a while (together) without feeling as if we were at the Blood Bank. Then it was to bed early to get ready for the journey back to the ferry and on to ...
Christmas in the jungle
... will be good fun. The plane journey is a treat, lots of snow capped mountains that glisten in the sun. Arrive in Iquitos: hot and humid. Peru is a country of contrasts. Hot, arid, humid, wet, snow, fertile. depending what side of the Andes you are. Take ...
The witch doctor
... to have worked. An ATM doled out the money and gave the card back. Hurrah.Friday night seems to be family night in Iquitos. A group of dancers performed along the Malecon, A group of dancers performed along the Malecon, aided by 2-metre live snakes that ...
Amazon time!
... killed it. 72 hours later I was sitting across form Orlando in a dark room down a dark side-alley in the outskirts of Iquitos, watching a very shifty looking shaman (see photo) blow smoke into my cup of ayuhuasca. And I have no shame in admitting that ...
For My Friends, from Iquitos Peru
... place with a nice pool. We went back recently to swim and relax. Nice place. I will share some of the details in a later post. Thanks, Bill Grimes Iquitos Peru Dawn on the Amazon Tours and ...
The jungle trip
Saturday April 21st 2007 Well, it's to go or not to go. It is a bit of a worry as Barb still has bronchitis and low energy levels. If we go on this trip, there is no medical attention. It has caused further concern to Barb as she can not handle the ...
The Amazon River
Sunday and Monday April 29th and 30th, on the boat cruising up the Amazon The only way to describe our 3 nights and days on the Amazon is 'wonderful'. Most of the time we were close to one bank or the other and watched the trees go past. A few ...
The jungle trip
Monday 23rd 2007Today we discussed the pros and cons of cancelling the trip and going back to Iquitos. We decided to stay on, but we would have another night in the cabin. We went canoeing for the day where we saw lots of monkeys, some birds and lots of ...
Iquitos, 28-31 October 2008
Came on the fast boat from Santa Rosa (Peru) on the border to Iquitos by fast boat. It left at the ungodly hour of 04h00 in the dark (which meant getting up at 03h00, taxi to port in Tabattinga, small boat across river to Santa Rosa, arriving at ...
When You Least Expect It
... , we have to stop at the traffic lights. And we were sure that special treatment had been for us. Our bubble is burst. We arrive in Iquitos and wonder how we are going to fill our day. We start by settling into our hotel and then head out for a walk along ...
Iquitos
I arrived in Iquitos full of hope. As I mentioned in may last entry, I was a bit sick of Brazil and looking forward to a change. This quickly evaporated, however, as just about everything that could have gone wrong did so. I was hounded from the start by ...
Amazonas-Iquitos Father and Son Edition
... , and painted indians with multiple piercings running about the place. One might think that, but the reality of the situation is that Iquitos is the largest city in the world that does not have a road connecting it the outside world. The only way here is ...
Iquitos
Week 12 Jan 19th - 25th Friday night I got off the plane at Iquitos, in the middle of the jungle in Northern Peru. The only way into this place is by air or boat, as it is completly cutoff by land by the jungle. Hot and sticky, it was a ...
The jungle trip
... , dengue is remotely possible, but from what we have heard the only way to be sure is to contact the hospital in Iquitos. There was a yellow fever case in a traveller travelling from Coca in Ecuador to Iquitos. We were taking Doxycycline after what we ...
Carry on up the Amazon
... and there were times when I wished he'd just stop talking for a few moments. After leaving Lima we flew to Iquitos. Iquitos is quite a large city (for Peru) and grew during the rubber-boom of the late 1800’s, a boom that was cut short when the ...