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Ambassador Iquitos

Pevas 260 Iquitos, Peru

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Off on the African Queen

A travel blog entry by heatherebekah

... we will have the opportunity to return!

We stayed at two different lodges both along the Napo River. They were both beautiful places with picturesque jungle huts and hammocks swinging from the rafters while birds sang from the surrounding forests. Our days were filled with jungle treks and piranha fishing excursions. We saw all kinds of interesting things. One of my favorite experiences was swimming in the Amazon, something ...

The amazon

A travel blog entry by nicolaandandy

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... mess we were in after the 10 hour jungle trek (I was relieved when Andy confirmed that he still wanted to marry me after seeing me in such a state!!).  Despite being so challenging the trek was good.  This was a proper trek, There were no paths to walk along, just the clearing through the vegetation that our guide made with his machete! We saw 4 different kinds of monkeys the biggest being the howler monkey which was about a metre high. Seeing these big monkeys in the wild ...

3 iron or the machete??

A travel blog entry by bryanoboyle

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... here you were overdressed. Before we knew it we were decked out in straw dresses with the tops off firing blow pipes. Then we were roped into a tribal dance jogging around in a circle for 5 minutes listening to an old lad with a rattle. Then when your nicely traumatized, you were besieged with the kids right up the grandmothers trying to pawn you **** jewellery. Dizzy, sweating, with everybody topless we grabbed the nearest necklaces just to get out of there. ...

Promoters and the Jungle

A travel blog entry by speare

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... took jungle hikes on and off paths learning about vegetation and animals, visited a small fishing village and interacted with locals, fished for piranhas (and ate them), went swimming in the Amazon river, and hunted for crocodiles at night.

The rafting race was one of the most challenging endurance tests I've ever experienced. The first day we made our boats out of the logs, rope and other materials they gave us and the next day we were on the ...

CZ z Coca do Iquitos ( Noemova archa)

A travel blog entry by obrobr

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... vyrazili na pivko. Druhy den rano jsme se nalodili se vsema pokoupenyma vecma.(15 litru vody, tunaci, nutela, plno ovoce, nejaký pečivo, houpaci site a samozrejme Rum) Cesta do Roca Fuerte měla trvat 10 hodin. Na lodi bylo asi 80 lidi, nekolik tun surovin ...