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Run through the Jungle
... a pretty amazing place. And yes, it is being effected by climate change and human activity.
Picture this...it's pitch dark, pouring rain and you are on a little metal boat on the Amazon river with only one spot light.....insert horror movie/nightmare...
This is how our first evening started out, was actually pretty eerie but also very cool. Sped along the river in the pouring rain seeing what we could find. Came across fly fishing bats, possums, night ...
Down the Amazon river
... and it seemed that there were hundreds of them. After this we saw some Cayman’s which are angry looking things, the pond we were looking at contained about 5 adults and a couple of babies, they came straight up to the fence towards us, and this fence is a bit of corrugated metal, not the safest thing in the world and lucky they don’t jump like Aussie crocodiles as we both would of lost a hand and a camera.
The final pond contained one of ...
2 weeks Iquitos
Now I have been for 2 weeks in Iquitos. Was nice. The city is grouwded by Tuk-Tuks. There is a very nice Malecon for walking and having a drink in the bar. The city is somehow behind the time. It is all looking a bit old and not developed.
I was for 5 days in the jungle. Was ok but not so good like in Equador 15 years before.
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Deep in the Amazon
... area.
Interesting Amazon Rainforest Facts:
The Amazon contains the largest number of bird species in the world, with 1 in 5 of all bird species coming from here... with over 120 hummingbirds alone.
The third largest number of mammals species found throughout the world come from Peru, most from the Peruvian Amazon.
Around 20% of the world's known butterflies reside in the Peruvian Amazon.
About 25% of ...
Iquitos
... und alle benoetigten Gueter werden somit auf dem Schiffs- oder luftweg transportiert. Iquitos ist uebrigens die groesste Stadt der Welt, die nicht auf dem Landweg erreicht werden kann (knapp 500000 Einwohner).
Kilometer fuer Kilometer naeherten wir uns dem Amazonas und nach 3 Tagen erreichten wir Ihn endlich. Jetzt konnte ich zum ersten Mal mit eigenen Augen den Beginn des sagenumwobenen Amazonas sehen. Das Wasser ist braeunlich gefaerb von der mitgefuehrten Erde und ...
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