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Iquitos & the Amazon Jungle
From Cusco we flew to Iquitos in Peru, a city of around 500,000 people deep in the heart of the Amazon Rainforest and near the start of the Amazon River. Iquitos is in fact an island that is surrounded by three rivers, only one of which is the Amazon. It is here that you see on the David Attenborough BBC documentaries the black water river of the …
The monkey ate my baby
After 4 mornings of early morning/late night dance music, boat metal adjustments that pinged every time someone walked over certain sections, suspected intentional wall banging on our cabin and the little faces that looked through our curtains and longingly at our food - I liked the solitariness of our little room in Hostal Colibri, plus it had a …
Death on the Amazon
Almost a waste of paying for accommodation, we woke up at 2.15am for our boat to Iquitos. Being such great morning people we were very excited about this. We got a taxi to Tabatinga (Brazil) where it's possible to get a boat that early in the morning to Santa Rosa (Peru) where our big boat was leaving from. As we arrived one boat was already …
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Off on the African Queen
... dreamed of doing. As I said before the Amazon and its tributaries are all very muddy and it is impossible to see more than an inch or two through the water. Near our lodge there was a submerged dock that we thought made for a perfect diving spot. As we walked out on the dock we felt something nibbling on our toes. Turns out there are little fish that eat off the dead skin on your feet. In places like Buenos Aires they actually use these fish ...
The amazon
... exciting. We also saw giant snails, butterflies, more spiders and lots of other insects. At Lunch time on our trek our guide in the space of about 10minutes managed to fashion a bench and a table made only from some small trees around us, it was pretty impressive, he must have learnt this from his days in the army I think! After dinner and a few hours to recover from the 10 jungle trek we went out, just the two of us and the guide, for a Moonlit Night canoe ride. The ...


