El Dorado Iquitos
Napo 362 Iquitos, Peru
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Cuzco, Peru to Iquitos, Peru
Airport picked-up arrived (as planned) at our hotel at 8:30am. We were booked for the 10:30am flight to Lima. A local agent assisted us through ticketing and in obtaining departure tax. She latter asked us to fill in an appraisal form as we were leaving. The Aero Continental flight was running late. We finally boarded around 11am. We sat next to a …
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The amazon
... of being in the amazon jungle!! Day 2 On our second day we got straight onto a boat and stopped on the bank of the amazon to have Breakfast on the boat. While we sat there we saw some tiny children on their way to school. Of course there are no school buses here and so the children we saw (of no more than 9years old I would guess) were driving a wooden canoe with a motor on the back all by themselves to their school down river!! Our guide told us that they were very ...
3 iron or the machete??
... drink. Estaban offered to sort us out with some. Apparently it makes you vomit all over the place, you start having crazy visions and think you’re a wild animal. We declined – you can have that in Coopers any night of the week.
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Promoters and the Jungle
... in different sites. It makes me a little sad to know that most of them are graduating this year and will be continuing with their lives. I guess this is how teachers must feel every year to see the students they've gotten to know all year go off on their own. It’s also been great to see the promoters give "charlas" to their own colleagues about the topics we’ve covered (last week was pregnancy prevention). I am so proud of them.
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