Rio Grande Hotel Iquitos

Aquirre 793 Iquitos, Peru

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The Chicken Boat

A travel blog entry by atlpilot36

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... 12 long hours the trip came to an abrubt end when we bumped into a wooden dock leaning down into the water at a 45 degree angle. We all had to jump from the swaying boat onto this incline and then climb up to a very narrow ledge jammed with locals eager to offer their "assistance." As I waited for my luggage to hopefully make it from the roof of the boat to this ledge without taking an Amazon bath, I must have been hit ...

Premiere etape du voyage au perou : on y est!!

A travel blog entry by nanoufanette

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... des racines, des
fruits et legumes et des graines) et cuisine au feu de bois. On s est eclaire a la bougie, on a fait des bains d argile… Et on en passe ! Meme si on ne vous cache pas que des
fois on a eu tres envie de rire, ce fut une chouette experience. C est
agreable de se poser un peu et de renconter des gens pour plus de
temps qu une simple discussion sur le bateau, dans la rue ou dans un bar
et puis ca ...

CZ z Coca do Iquitos ( Noemova archa)

A travel blog entry by obrobr

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... ze opoustime Ecuador. Dalsi rano jsme byli vsichni nastoupeni na nalodeni v 6:00. Asi za 10 minut prisel mladik s kanistrem na rameni a rekl ze musi pro lodku asi 1km jeste dojit a jelikoz v noci lilo jako z konve, musel i vybrat vodu. No proste 6:55 jsme byli nalozeni na ...

EN Coca to Iquitos on river Napo

A travel blog entry by obrobr

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... which was very useful as stuff gets missing on this type of boat. It did not take long and we were off. The boat had 3 floors. The bottom one had the boat motor which was huge and the rest of the space was dedicated for anything we had to ...

Manatees and swiming at Quistococha

A travel blog entry by sarahs_voyage

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... plans afoot to expand the centre to include a rescue bit for pink dolphins as well. It all sounds brilliant but I hope the place doesn’t loose its personal touch and the babies don’t get overrun by well meaning tourists.

I leave the centre with reluctance, for the first time cursing my schedule. The centre has a small volunteer program and currently has a volunteer from Australia. As with pink dolphin spotting ...