Amazon Apart Hotel Iquitos

... Managed a decent sleep considering the noise.<br>Day two consisted of a morning boat ride, this time with a small outboard on the canoe, down river to the Amazon, where we watched PINK dolphins jumping out of the river, we then had a bird spotting trek, there are some amazing and beautifull birds in the jungle.Back to the lodge for lunch and then waited for the return boat journey whilst watching the rain come down, I know now why this is called the rain ...

... kingfishers, grey hawk, toucan, macaw, and some great annies. At one point a grey hawk attacked a pack of annies which they didn&#8217;t seem to appreciate much. Once we returned back to the lodge we downed full glasses of water and we ate our moneys worth of table fruit - about 4 oranges and bananas each. We begged Falcon for one more jungle walk around on the trek near the lodge before we cleaned ourselves up. He took us back to the swinging vine ...

... ant highway.&#8221; We walked a little bit further and Falcon turned around an looked back at us saying, &#8220;It goes to the ant hill, here&#8221;. We looked around at his feet. Eric saw no ants and no openings or sand or anything. &#8220;Here, &#8221; he said. Still nothing. Falcon sensed the confusion, &#8220;All of this is the leaf-cutters hill&#8221;, he said stomping his foot onto softer ground revealing a little bit of sandy-like soil. We scanned the ground ...

... To get away, the little fish jumped out of the water. But the wolf fish jumped as well, chasing after it. And they both landed in the boat, one right after the other. The wolf fish was big enough to be a keeper, so Falcon put the spear through it. Eric and I picked up the little fish and threw him back in the water. In a very strange strike of irony, the predator became the prey. <br> We had heard the fishing was best in the dry season, but had no idea how easy it would be ...

... tapped another leaf and big red ants scurried up and down the stalk of the branch. &#8220;But a few bites from these guys will give you a serious fever in minutes.&#8221; We kept on walking, each of us mentally analyzing how we were going to manage walking through this impossibly thick passage of trees without brushing up some poisonous crawling things when even an innocent leaf held lethal fire ants. Falcon meanwhile continued to casually whistle out random ...

... fly into Iquitos and take a boat out. However, I didn't plan ahead very well and when I got back from the jungle I found that I couldn't get on a boat that fit my increasingly tight schedule (have a week left here). So, rather than being able to take a lazy and yet adventurous 4-day boat ride upriver out of the forest, I'm having to fly out again to make sure that I get to Lima by midweek next week. On the final leg of my trip now - slowly winding my way back to Lima and home. <br>

... attached his axle 3 times). To our delight, we were the only ones! We headed to the confluence of the Nanay and Amazon rivers, and were delighted to immediately see Pink Dolphins. Yep, they´re actually pink! Well, the older ones are, they start grey and change to pink. Alas, no photos of them. <br><br> We spent the day motoring along the shores, enjoying the jungle and the bird life. The cool breeze from the river killed the humidity for the ...

... from the Putamayo River between Colombia and Peru but were displaced about 50 years ago due to fighting in that area. We visited the maloka (community center) where we were greeted and told a little about their culture. They did several dances and I was asked to join in one as well. After wards they showed us their artesania and I bought a couple of bracelets made with porcupine spines. It was an ...

... is a monkey, bird etc... and alwys wrong, they are always animals the just do not match the animal noise. Pretty freaked out we finally returned to camp in the dark with Falcon knowing the direction by remebering the tree types, branches and little signs he left himself like a broken branch, all very impressive. The next morning I woke to find a spider bigger then my whole hand on the mossy net, I called for Falcon who said it was posinus and that he needed to kill it which he ...

... soon we were on our way to Nauta, a small town 100 kilometres (about 65 miles) from Iquitos. I was surprised at the excellent quality of the road. It only took two hours to get there. In Nauta, our boat with supplies was waiting at the junction of the Marañon and Ucuyali Rivers, the birthplace of the Amazon. After a short stroll across the market, we were ready to leave. A four-hour boat trip up the Marañon River took us into the ...