At the end of our little cruise we touched down in Santa Rosa, which is the Peruvian side of the river. From where we stood, we could see Leticia (the Colombian border town) and Tabatinga (the Brazilian town) on this three-way border. After a few emigration formalities, mainly involving me paying a small fine for overstaying my Peruvian visa, we hopped from dirty nappy to dirty nappy to get into a boat for five minutes to take us to Colombia. Expecting full body cavity searches and hectic immigration, we were surprised to find absolutely nothing in the way of immigration - [View Full Entry]

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We´re safe - just haven´t had much time to update the blog - the jungle tires you out. It´s incredibly humid and we will be sailing the Amazon for three days, until we hit Manaus. I hope to find a speedier internet connection there for the uploading of photos and such. [View Full Entry]

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Salut les mignons! Juste deux ou trois ligne pour vous dire bonjour de Colombie, mouarf! Ma première expérience de voyage en lancha s'est bien passée, avec ma copine de voyage Martina, from Suède. Et me voila à Tabatinga-Leticia. Tabatinga, c'est le côté brésilien. De l'autre côté de la rue, Leticia, le côté colombien. Alors pourquoi râter l'occasion de visiter un autre pays? The suite amañha (et oui mettons nous au portugais allons!), en route pour Manaus, en plein milieu de l'Amazone. Quatre ou cinq jours de lancha, ça c'est du vrai voyage! Mon fidèle hamac hamac est au rendez-vous et me [View Full Entry]

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So we had finally made it to our final destination in this part of the world and I was happy to be back in Colombia again. Straight away the difference is obvious as there is a lot more money in Colombia than other countries and people here are happy to see tourists in their country. The infrastructure is better, the people are more educated, the shops are nicer, the houses are nicer, the people are extremely friendly and helpful, I believe that they have a great way of looking at life, they love their salsa and play much better music than [View Full Entry]

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Time had come for us to get organised and get back on another boat and head further down river to Leticia, Colombia. This time we were ready to be hassled at the port by people trying to help us to do things that we were more than capable of doing ourselves. For instances organising our voyage with the captain of the boat. As we arrived in our moto taxi it was surrounded by men trying to help but this time in no uncertain terms we told them that we did not need any help and that we were fine by ourselves. [View Full Entry]

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River Trip From Puerta Masusa, a port near Iquitos, river boats leave each evening down the Amazon River. I got a motor-taxi to take me to Puerto Masusa . Half way there the ¨taxi¨sputtered its last drop of gas but as if the driver had planned it, the taxi coasted into the one and only gas station between town and port. He got 30 cents worth. My fare was 65 cents. I was the only gringo in sight and the bums in the area saw this so I got a little bit of hasselling as they tried to gather around me [View Full Entry]

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We arrived In Letitia airport Thursday 12th July in the morning and we were shocked by the heat, as we were coming out of the plane. We were ushered into the arrival area and were welcomed with singing and keyboard playing y two Policemen. It was a really neat welcome. The security was very tight, with all baggage checked, drug dogs sniffing around and you could not leave the arrival area without paying the arrival tax and your baggage tickets checked by a policeman. It felt really good to be in such a secure and welcoming place. Leticia is Colombia, Tabitinga [View Full Entry]

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Now this is Amazon Volume Three, Piranha Fishing, Nightime Caymen Hunting & Giant Lilipads of the Rio Yavario South America » Colombia » Leticia » Rio Yavari Amazon By Juanes April 9th 2007 Jason Burnettmore amazing amazon fotos [View Full Entry]

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Well i have had to back date this blog a tad as i have been off the radar for a few days. from where i left you guys in Manaus i have had to catch a quite expensive plane trip to tabatinga... which of course i had to pay in cash... this meant another trip to Bank do Brazil and 5 hours waiting in lines and getting my credit card approved. not the most pleasent day in manaus but i managed to get my ticket so i was happy. I decided to spoil myself today and went on a day [View Full Entry]

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Stepping off the plane to Leticia I remembered that actually I wasn't quite saying farewell to Columbia yet and that we had just entered the gateway into the Amazon, and 150% humidity. God was it hot and sticky; it was the sort of humidity that meant you were wetter when you got out of the shower than when you were in it. The next couple of days were spent preparing ourselves for the journey ahead, buying supplies (Vodka, Munchies, Oh yeah and what would be our bed for the next 4 nights a hammock!) The pousada (that's a guest house) where [View Full Entry]

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