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Travel Blogs from Iquitos
The Inca Trail - Day 4, Machu Picchu
The Inca Trail -Day 4 This getting up early is getting easier as we have an exciting day ahead . Up at 4am with some hot tea and pack up our things for the final time on the trail. Had a light snack as it is way to early for breakfast. The porters were quickly breaking down the camp and packing it up. They do not join us for the final 6.5km to …
The Lara Croft moment
... manner. And I'm thinking, if he hits a tree by mistake, we'll sink. And there's no mobile signal to radio for help. Fortunately they do know what they're doing and no tree-related mishap befell me. So this is me leaving Iquitos town and getting further and further away from civilisation and closer and closer to wildlife.Sent from my ...
Our first trip to the Jungle
... despite DEET before.
On our next day out, we visited small villages along the Amazon River. The marks from the flooding was impressive. The villagers just say they go "arriba" when it floods and were out of their homes for weeks. In the villages there is no electricity and everyone cooks over a wood fire (thus why there is a lot of reactive airway disease from smoke inhalation). Despite the poverty, families have no idea what would make a ...
Peru - Iquitos
... again. Wrong!! Two buses later and another moto-taxi, we made it! We booked into a cabin and headed back to the hotel to check out. When we left the hotel, they told us that we were going to the wrong launch site, all three of us looked at Pepe and the moto-taxi driver and I think our looks said take us to where we want to go!!
That afternoon, we set sail for 3 days aboard our luxury boat (or tin boat to everyone else)!
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The amazon
... like a run down, border line dodgy looking place! In the morning we were picked up from our hotel and taken to the port where we took a boat down the amazon river to our lodge. I will explain our amazon trip day by day: Day 1 The boat took us the 140km down the amazon and it's tributary rivers from Iquitos to our lodge. Half way to the lodge we stopped somewhere for some supplies which comprised of a small raft/platform with a shack on it. Andy decided to use their ...