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Peggy, Tarjei and Kate

Hanging out at the Lima airport getting ready for the flight to Iquitos in the Amazon basin.
4 April, 2011

April 4th 2011
KF: A wall of warm, humid, fragrant jungle air hit us when we stepped off the plane in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon. After the Andes, where we stayed at almost 12,000 feet, it was like being under water. We were whisked off by bus to the Delfin II, a boat which holds 28 passengers and our home for five days. We were in the upper region of the largest river in the world (or second largest de ... read more
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Peruvian Flag Ancient Peru was the seat of several prominent Andean civilizations, most notably that of the Incas whose empire was captured by the Spanish conquistadors in 1533. Peruvian independence was declared in 1821, and remaining Spanish forces defeated in 1... ... read more
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