The Jungle
October 9th 2011 Iquitos
The view from the plane was spectacular during landing: an endless sea of green jungle with the wide, black Amazonas river snaking through the middle. Iquitos is the largest city unreachable by land, a hot and humid metropolis where you just can't get rid of that layer of sweat.
The extent of poverty became apparent to us as we walked to Belén, the floating slums. Its cur
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