Iquitos
Trip Start
Nov 03, 2008
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Trip End
May 13, 2009
Iquitos,
Peru
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Red Iguana
Friday night I got off the plane at Iquitos, in the middle of the jungle in Northern Peru. The only way into this place is by air or boat, as it is completly cutoff by land by the jungle. Hot and sticky,
Capaybara
it was a little like walking into a bathroom after someone has had a hot shower. Chaotic and noisy, exactly like I had seen on tv but not as scary when you get here. It has to be the first place I have been that is wetter than
Anaconda
Mullingar, every morning without fail it rains until early afternoon. The boat to the border leaves every morning at 6 a.m. so I was too late to get on the Saturday sailing but reserved a place for Sunday morning. That meant I had a day to kill wandering around the town and I also made a short excursion to the nature reserve. This contained
Sunrise over the Amazon
soley the local animals from the jungle, wild cats, crocodiles, fish, monkeys, snakes and a very strange creature, a Capaybara, the biggest rodent in the world, basically a guinea pig on steriods!At 6 a.m. on Sunday I departed for the border at Santa Rosa. My parting moments from Iquitos were watching a beautiful sunrise over the Amazon.
