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King of the swingers
We woke very early on our first day in the jungle to go monkey spotting with Walter and Terry our guides. Dressed in our long sleeve shirts and trousers (its too warm for that really) and armed with our jungle formula we took a small boat along the Amazon skirting the banks looking for Sloths. We spotted one high up in a tree, which was quite a bit …
Iquitos and the Heart of the Amazon Basin
Traveling from Guayaquil, Ecuador to Iquitos, Peru involved two flights covering a distance of 1,350 miles, and took all day. We left foggy Guayaquil before dawn, and stepped off the plane in the heart of the Amazon jungle after night fall. We were met at the airport by Evy, the Peruvian co-owner, with her American husband, of Otorongo Expeditions …
The Amazon
Today we got to sleep in a bit which meant until around 6:15-6:30am. For breakfast we had French toast, ham, kraft cheese, water buffalo cheese and salad. After breakfast, we went to San Gregorio village where we were able to go inside a school and buy some handicrafts to contribute to the local economy.
We took the boat down the river and …
The Amazon
There was a wake up knock on our door at 6:15am. I, however had already been up since 5:30am to have a shower, although my shower at that time was just to wash my hair as there is only cold water to wash with and it wasn't hot enough this morning to justify completely jumping into the cold water just yet.
Before breakfast, we went out on the …
Lima to Iquitos
I woke up at 5:45am to have a shower before we would be picked up by our taxi at 6:30am to go to the airport. However, only the hot water would work in the one shower in the hostel, and it became scalding hot so I couldn't use it. I turned off the hot water to see if cold water worked, and it started rumbling in the sink and wouldn't come out of …
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amazing place, 100km from Iquitis, very friendly and knowledgeable staff, we loved our trip esp the pet toucan
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