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From Brazil to Perú
... inspections first. So the husband from the recepcionist at the hotel drove me on his motorbike to the port. It was dark, and there was very little people arround. I actually felt I was doing something wrong! I had to walk about 15 long meters trough the wood boards to the boat that was waiting to take me and other people to the other side of the river, where the fast boat was leaving from. I have to said I was afraid, so I walked as quick as I could, not looking anywhere ...
Boat Trip through the Amazon
... plane.
A large part of that SE part of the country was effectively given to the FARC to go be rebels away from the rest of the people.
So going by boat is not really an option and there are no roads there for more obvious reasons than paramilitary groups.
I was expecting to have to wait a few days in Leticia because the boats only go a few days a week.
But I was lucky and I was able to get a boat for the next night. So I rushed through the next ...
Leticia
... temperaturen! Op een paar uur van de city kan je het regenwoud in maar gezien ik deze ervaring reeds in 'Bolivia' beleefd heb besloot ik hier geen geld meer aan te spenderen.
'Leticia' was voor mij een transitpunt waar ik een paar dagen wou uitblazen en me voorbereiden op wat komen zou; een 5 daagse boottrip op de 'Amazone' richting 'Manaus', 'Brazilië'. Klinkt goed, maar dit wordt beslist geen plezierreisje...
Cheerio!
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Leticia, Columbia
... up into as much of a ball-like shape as he can manage whilst still sitting on a chair. They spend the first hours of the journey in this condition, excreting the smell of alcohol which seeps out of their pores. Garvan chooses to hide at the opposite end of the boat to Ruairi who had spent five minutes banging against his hotel room door trying to rouse him and is therefore not in the greatest of moods with his brother. At least I get to drink Ruairi's coffee, which is ...
Out of the jungle...
... from the lodge to this amazingly HUGE tree which was amazing to see. Once back we headed our in the canoe again to go fishing, and we actually caught quite a lot. Humane wasnt really our guides forte...we caught a vaguely big piranha so we said we would like to keep it to cook...so he hacked its teeth out with his machete and threw it into the boat for gently suffocate. in my best spanish i tried to ask him why he could jsut kill it, so ten minutes of our ...
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