The Peruvian Amazon: In to the Jungle
May 9th 2011 Given its proximity to the Amazon rain forest Iquitos seemed the perfect place from which to explore some of it, so we joined a three day tour headed for a lodge about 100km away. A huge slowboat took us 90 minutes down the amazon, our first of what would be many trips on the world's largest river. We then changed to a speedboat for 10 minutes to Indiana, a tiny village on the banks of the riv
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