Amazonas

Trip Start Feb 10, 2006
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Thursday, October 5, 2006

The guide book says that the road to Chachapoyas is breathtaking...will have to take their word for it as the only buses going there go at night so we could see little more than the verge. Buses in Peru are a funny design , when you lean the seat back the bit you´re sitting on goes forward leaving you with maybe two whole centimetres to squash your knees into - I gave up and curled up in a ball for the night. The bus was like an oven although we´d been told to bring our sleeping bags on board as ¨it gets cold in the mountains¨. Well, gave me something to fill up those two centimetres with.

Chachapoyes is small and clean and felt relatively safe. You can really tell you´re in the Amazon up here - hot and muggy with rain showers in the afternoon. Makes quite a change from the mountains.

Chachapoyes is a great place to use as a base to explore Amazonas - there are more ruins and beauty spots nearby than is possible to visit (even with our very loose time schedule). We walked out to a gorge the first day, only an hour each way but got us ready for the long hike out to Levanto - four hours out along a beautifully preserved Inca road. Took us about an hour of fighting through bush, avoiding bulls and climbing barbed-wire fences to find the ruins but they were worth it - still can´t believe the effort folk used to put into their stone masonry, gorgeous. Only took three hours to get back - must be getting fitter at last.
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