One month had passed in the community of Hunin Pablo with Daniel and his family after I returned back to Pucallpa. I went back to the San Francisco-community to visit another family I knew briefly from my time I passed there a month before... Alberto and Elisa are a very special Shipibo-couple. Elisa is one of the very few female curanderos working with the power-plants and Alberto is an amazing artist, embodying traditional shipibo-patterns together with his own visions and knowledge of the plant-world in beautiful paintings... I participated in an ayahuasca-ceremony with them the same even [View Full Entry]

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After my friends went back home to Switzerland I decided to stay in the world of the Shipibos and to explore a little more. Together with curandero Daniel Arevalo, who had been with us during the last 12 days in San Francisco, I took a 17 hours boatride to the community where he lives with his huge family - Hunin Pablo. Unlike San Francisco the community Hunin Pablo is a pure rivercommunity, only accessable per boat. His family welcomed me openly and soon I lived in midst of them. In a house without walls, only a wooden floor and palmtree-roof, I [View Full Entry]

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Being fortunate to meet and connect with Laurance, Martin (alias LilMerlin) and son Tila from Switzerland during the conference, they invited me to come with them to Pucallpa after I returned from the jungle. Pucallpa is a jungle-city located about 1000km south of Iquitos and close to the area of the native indian tribe called the "Shipibos". For about 12 days we lived together in the "communidad San Francisco", a big Shipibo-community outside of Pucallpa (big means nearly 1000 people). Shipibo-curandero Daniel Arevalo (Sankunima) came from his far-away rivercommunity to work with us in San [View Full Entry]

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After quitting my flat, selling everything of value that could bring me some money for my travels and being at work until the very last moment, I started my journey at the 26th of June '06. My father drove me to the Munich Int. Airport from where I took my one-way flight to Lima and from there a national flight to Iquitos, a crazy jungle-city in the north-east of Peru... My interest in shamanism brought me directly to the "2nd Amazonian Shamanism Conference" in Iquitos. I found out about it on the net before and together with the one-week jungletrip following [View Full Entry]

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