La Posada Del Cauchero Iquitos

... I will ever play where you are issued with a machete - Dont ask..... The only advise I was given was to leave the lost golf balls in the water or you will struggle to count to ten if you put your hand in !!<br>After the golf I had a beer in the club house, I was the only one on the course, I tried to have a chat with Eduardo the caddy but I gave up and ordered a moto-kar ...

... caught a piranha. Then Jen did. We threw all three fish back as we still had a bunch leftover from before. Eric sat there with his line in the water, grumbling that spear fishing was a lot more fun. Falcon had moved about 15m to the right of us and pulled some fish as well. Then Falcon let out a yell and called us over. He pulled up fish that began to look more and more snakelike as he pulled it out of the water. &#8220;Ayyyy&#8230;.this is an electric eel ...

... to this hole it has a clear shot.&#8221; <br><br> Anacondas, though large, are not the largest snakes in the jungle, nor the worst. Boas reportedly reach a whopping 10 meters. A 6 meter boa made the front page of the local newspaper the day before we left. It had attacked a lady who was fishing on the riverside of a nearby town. Her brother was near enough to hear the commotion and came running to save her. The picture on the Iquitos Times (can be found online, in ...

... it run back into the rice fields. <br> We headed back to the lodge for dinner and as the night set in the mosquitoes started to come out. Being both the winter and the dry season, this is about as good as it will ever get for mosquitoes in the Amazon. And despite that, more and more mosquitoes kept coming out. They were as bad that night as they are in the Boundary Waters. We fell asleep that night grateful for mosquito nets and bug spray loaded with 98% deet.

... 20 a person. Phenomenal. <br><br> We arrived in Iquitos around 10:30 this morning after a decent breakfast of sweet rice porridge. The town is entirely a port city, and at a population of a half a million, it is the largest city inaccessible by road. The number of boats, and large boats, was impressive. They lined the river, in both directions, for what looked like a couple of kilometers. We got off the boat, walked into town, misjudged the distance to the ...

... see not one but two butterfly births, a jaguar, a tapir, an anteater, and the cutest baby sloth you ever did see.<br>So Iquitos i can wholeheartedly recommend, and the boat ride even more so. And it´s probably not that much of a surprise when i let you know that we decided our warm-up two-day trip went so well that we decided to lock ourselves in for the six day trip back to civilisation, from Iquitos to Pucallpa. Things were bound to get interesting... <br>

... and then we headed to the market. It's absolutely huge and filled with things you could never imagine. There are so many unfamiliar fruits and vegetables here! I wouldn't have known what to try but Jino made a few suggestions including a yummy drink called an Especiale. What's in it? Malt ...

... no roads leading to it. The only way to get here is by boat or air. It is a town of some 400,000 people in the middle of the jungle. How did this happen? The city was founded in the 1750's by the Jesuits who desperately wanted to save the indigenous people from their heathen ways. By the 1870's the town had grown to about 1500 people...but then came the rubber boom and by the 1880's Iquitos had grown to 24 ...

... we stopped on the banks of the river when we saw these funny looking monkeys high in the canopy. Several came down onto the lower branches and one large female jumped in the boat. We handed over the banana's and she sat next to one the French guys, peeled the banana, threw the skin into the river and enjoyed her free lunch. A few more joined the confidant female but they stayed in trees above the boat so we handed out the rest of the banana's and headed back to the ...

... the impression our canoe was floating in a big bowl of fish soup. The water seemed so full of them, that our boatman just had to randomly throw his spear into the water to catch one. And even when we weren't fishing, fish jumped out of the water and into the canoe. I was most impressed with some of the fish we ran across, not in the river, but in the jungle! A four-foot electric eel in a mud pool, for instance, or a couple of pre ...