Travel Blogs by Travelers Who Stayed at this HostelHostal La Casona Iquitos
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 pretty noisy! We had a quick wander to find a shop for something to eat and first …
A gringo in Iquitos
Had one of those moments yesterday, woke up, looked around the room and wondered where the bloody hell I was - Then the memory banks fired up the little bulb in me head and I remembered I was in Iquitos...
I managed to get here intact with all my luggage, which had spent the day at Lima airport - The tossers at Manchester told me it was booked …
Welcome to the jungle
This is the first time since South East Asia we've been back in a really hot place. It's around 40 degrees and we are melting! We checked into a pretty nice hostel very near the main square. It feels great to be here as it is so different from all the other places we've been in South America so far. It feels closer to Cambodia with all the tuk-tuks …
Boat Trip down the Amazon
Alright folks, After leaving my folks in Puno, I headed up to the Amazon basin to realize a dream trip down the river to the world´s largest city not accessible by road, Iquitos. My flight from Juliaca got into Lima where I stayed another night in the airport and then jumped on a plane to Tarapoto. I ended up meandering around the city for a couple …
Spanish practices
And so it seems, after two weeks of intensive Spanish lessons courtesy of the excellent ECELA operation in Lima, that we are armed and dangerous with a new language. So far, we´ve tested our new knowledge with restaurants, taxis, bus station, hotels, and an elderly cabellero on the plane (quien conoce Iquitos y cuanto cuesta un taxi al centro).


