Finally made it into the Amazon here in Colombia. I am in Leticia, a small town of about 30000 people on the banks of the world's longest, widest, deepest and most voluminous (?) river. From here its over 6000km to the river's mouth on the Atlantic coast of Brazil! The town is lovely, not beautiful or anything but with a very friendly, laid back atmosphere. The streets are full of scooters, mopeds and motorbikes which is unsurprising as there is nowhere far away enough you can drive to that would require a car and anyway they would have to be brought [View Full Entry]

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After the boat journey that left us in Tabatinga we headed across the border to Leticia, Columbia. As advised by our travel bibles, Leticia is a little more established for tourist visitors and has far more facilities as well as being the place to book jungle tours from. After having limited time in Manaus we still needed to head into the jungle and do what almost every other tourist does while in the Amazonas region, a jungle tour... so we booked ourselves into a 3 day, 2 night adventure into the Colombian Jungle.... this was of course after one day of [View Full Entry]

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We arrived at Tabatinga and headed straight for the travel agent advertised in the Lonely Planet. It was very hummid and +35 degrees c. We had to lug our bags quite a distance before we found the place and the three sets of incorrect directions we had been given didn't help. If it hadn't had been for a friendly tout we would probably never have found it. The travel agent turned out to be a man who knew someone with a boat and plane, the plane did not run for another 4 weeks and the boat had already left. We were [View Full Entry]

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