El Dorado Plaza Iquitos

... says 4 weeks after. but if it´s this cheap here, I might as well go for a 4 week supply.<br><br>I originally wanted to try to get on a boat today but with the flight delay that was impossible. So I was able to talk to some people who are more knowledgeable about the boats, and Ive decided to do a slow boat, but get a cabin to lock things up, and then stay in the jungle in Colombia and then head off to Bogota from there. Originally I was thinking of heading ...

... though keen on expanding their vast empire, never reached Iquitos. Even for them, the Amazon rainforest proved to be too difficult to take. The native tribes that still live here have been here for a thousand years, isolated from the rest of the world. The impenetrable rainforest prevented these people from being wiped out by the Spanish conquistadores. This is how it was possible for no less than 23 different races to develop, each with their own culture ...

... this guy is chasing down my range balls. I put a wet towel on my head and took off in the other direction to help pick them up. I still needed practice after this, so I hit one more round of range balls, but this time I only used my pitching wedge. <br> The course was fairly small, only a par 35 and the greens were very inconsistent. Water traps were everywhere. I must have hit about 4 different ponds and streams. Hole number four is a par 3 with an island for a green and water ...

... off with whopper pancakes again, although pancakes are more of a Western/European thing than they are southern thing, because when the guides made them they unknowingly put way too much oil in the pan and the pancakes were essentially deep fried. But I am sure I would screw up Peruvian food if I tried to cook it, and anyway, without syrup on hand, deep frying added a bit of taste to what otherwise would have been a dry pancake.<br><br> After breakfast we headed out short a ...

... no, not really&#8221;. But then we saw the dolphins jump a second time and guide started getting into the water. We jumped in. However, as soon as we got in the water, the dolphins swam back out to the center of the river (read lake) and ignored us. We chased them a little, but as we swam out, they swam away. A half an hour later more dolphins showed up and this time I swam out to meet them alone. I think everyone else had given up or tired out by this point. I don&#8217;t ...

... br>finally landed on Chez Maggies, (thank you Lonely Planet). Chez Maggies<br>is a Peruvian chain, the food was good. I ordered nachos to start<br>with, they can with the best dipping sauce. I am not sure what it was,<br>but the rest of the food tasted great dipped in it as well. <br><br>With a full belly we were off to bed.

... amazon pass us by while laying in hammocks. Unbeliable. We arrive into iquitos and was offered a hostel for 3 bucks. It was horrible, but cheap.<br><br>We made reservations with a tour company to venture into the amazon. For 3 days and 2 nights we paid an amazing price of 100 dollars each. The following day we wake up and drive to Nauta, a good departure town into the amazon. We board a small boat with 2 young canadian kids. After about an hour and half boat ...

Years ago I had seen a documentary about the flooded forest of the Amazon and the river dolphins that live here. Wow! It really intrigued me and I thought I should definitely go there some day and see this up close and personal. Several years after that I got a brochure form Massachusetts Audubon about a birding trip to this magical place. You mean there are lots of birds there, too??!!! That sealed the ...

... We decided that the place was to far out of the centre and we all headed back to Hobos Hidaway, our first hostel and bargined the owner down to a fare price. We were initally shocked by the prices in Peru as we assumed that Peru would be dirt cheap but have come to realise this may be Bolivia and not so much Peru. At least it was a lot less cheaper then Brazil. Our mission here was to search for a jungle tour, we had decided that we would like to choose a tour which is longer in ...

... in the sheer beauty of that ever flowing, mysteriously dark, yet peaceful river. We did see monkeys, as well as a sloth, a yellow-black ringed river snake, a capibara and countless lizards, butterflies, spiders, frogs, toads, and of course; birds! We saw Harpy Eagles, hawks, falcons, woodpeckers, kingfishers, anis great and small, toucans, and that peculiar yellow-rumped cacique, which lives in colonies and uses a surprisingly wide scale of sounds ...