Iquitos, the Peruvian jungle capital, is a strange old place. The city is an island in the middle of the jungle; only reachable by boat or plane (in fact it’s the largest city in the world not connected to a national road network). As there is but one road heading out of the city (and that only goes 100km to Nauta), not many people have cars, so Iquitos is Mototaxi City, with an alleged 20,000 of these mototaxis serving the 400,000 residents. I spent 8 days in the area in total, and the heat during the day was decidedly too much. One day we had exceptional heat, which apparently reached nearly 40 degrees. When the storms come, it absolutely buckets it down, but this makes a refreshing change, as long as you’re indoors. Interestingly, as we’re
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