Hotel Acosta Iquitos

... in spanish over coffee. A few nights ago, Max heard me speaking spanish in my sleep. <br><br>The jungle is certainly not an easy place to travel. Mosquito bites from head to toe, sweaty nights, and plans frequently spoiled by dramatic weather. It really feels like we have just adapted to the environment here, and now it is time to leave. However, our experience here was incredibly fulfilling. The Amazon is every adventure travelers ...

... white-sanded beach, a park and a zoo, with a lage number of Amazonian animals. There are some pavillions and it is very popular with the local youth, who come to swim, play football and volleyball.<br><br>In Iquitos itself, the &#8216;floating city&#8217; of Belén is definitely worth a visit. Because of the rising water levels, the houses here are built on stilts and on rafts, allowing them to float on the water during the high water season. It has earned Belén the ...

... 8220;Well, it&#8217;s right there. Take a right.&#8221; I thanked him, bought an ice cream sandwich and walked my last few hundred meters. I&#8217;d call it a &#8217;cool-down&#8217; but at 100 degrees and rarely scattered shade, there was nothing cool about it. Other than knowing that I&#8217;d finally find Eric when I got to the golf course, the only thing that made me feel better was that the ice cream cookie sandwich I got happened to be overstuffed with ice cream-almost like a ...

... for no more than 10 minutes when the guides cast their flashlight over what looked like a little red reflector in the water. &#8220;Caiman,&#8221; he said. Falcon imitated caiman (alligator) noises and we paddled closer to the little red reflector and swung the back end of the boat around. Gedrani slammed his hand into the water and pulled the caiman out by its neck. It was a little one, not much more than 2 ft long. Nonetheless, he wiggled around and thrashed his tail ...

... dolphins! Honest. Pink. Really pink. The river dolphins in the Amazon - some are gray and some are PINK! I saw their pinkiness with my own eyes and they really were so pink. Also, our guide took us fishing in the Amazon for Pirhana - they are quite easy to catch with a line and a bit of chicken on the end of it. Having said that, I didn't manage it caught my first ever fish - an embarrassingly small catfish which I insisted on having for lunch (it was a only mouthful ...

... but he is adorable. I bought him some baby formula milk today, and he sucked it out of a straw. This might just be the best or worst purchase of my life. We will see. I cant get over the fact that i own a monkey... and he lives in my pocket! I am pretty sure this is the buy of my life.<br><br>Josh left this afternoon and elijah and i will probably head out tomorrow. We will fly to lima on an outrageous flight cost of 140 dollars. There i will follow elijah to pisco ...

... I would have expected. However, being on the smooth water in a quiet canoe in the dark in the middle of the jungle...no words can describe it! Gart and I slept on mats on the floor, surrounded by mosquito netting although there were very few mosquitoes. There is hardly a lick of wind here and it was pretty hot when the boat wasn't moving and providing a bit of wind. I didn't even need a sheet. The ...

... shouted to falcon that there is an anaconda in the waters near the lodge, 4m aways, he jumped up and ran towards it, he and another few guys tackled it and picked it up to show us. Amazing, about 2m long is wasn`t any dangour to us but they believe it smelt our chickens by the lodge and were hungry. After lunch we took some local fishing rods which is basically a wooden stick and string on the end with worms. we went to an area that had many fish and threw our rods in trying to ...

... years old. Kids playing football, basketball, or swimming and diving in the river, people sitting on their porches, or strolling along the concrete walkways; life sure seems sweet! It's almost like every day is a holiday. Children who spotted my camera excitedly started to show off their diving skills. <br>A little girl offered a baby turtle for sale, which we bought for just one sol. Instead of living a life in captivity and ending up as ...