The jungle trip - biting insects
Trip Start
Feb 06, 2007
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Trip End
Jan 14, 2008
Iquitos,
Peru
Sunday, April 22, 2007
A river bus is an excellent way to travel. The boat took 15 hours to travel upstream to Jenaro Herrera, about 300 kms from Iquitos. Overnight it was pretty cool with a river breeze and our guide noticed our discomfort. He had a couple of blankets with him. We had not brought warm gear as we were expecting it to be hot. Our guide carried all the stuff necessary for us to live for the next 5 days including three live chickens. This was a tour that was considerably further than the Yarapa river where many jungle tours go to and it is supposed to be in primary forest not found in the closer regions. We suspect it is all part of the sell-a-tour strategy. It was excellent navigating for 4 hours by peque-peque (a canoe with propeller on the end of a pole) through narrow rivers with overhanging branches. One of the chooks managed to get out of the box and teetered on the edge of the canoe. By this time we had named it Lunch'
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. We entered our camp village, where we found it to consist of a cabin for two people, a much larger gazebo that doubles as a dining room with more room for more guests staying, and a couple of buildings used by the couple who lives there. We gather this outfit concentrates on groups up to four people. We went on a jungle walk in the afternoon. Lots of plants, and the noise of the jungle surrounded us. We were glad of the rubber boots provided as the ground was very wet with deep mud.
At dusk the mossies arrived in their hundreds. Our cabin was screened, a spray of Baygon and all was well.
Barbara was still feeling bronchial and lethargic (she says like death-slightly-warmed-up) so our options were still open as to whether we would go on tomorrow.
