We had finally arrived in Iquitos, the world's largest city that can't be reached by road. My first impressions of the city was that it stank, not of anything in particular and not all the time, but as we drove into the city in our moto taxi we got quite a few whiffs of off fruit, bad sewage, muddy water and god knows what else. Along with the smells my first impression was that this place was absolutely mad and not what I had expected it to be. For some reason I had expected a chilled jungle town with lots of lovely green trees and plants and chilled people to go along with it. What we found was hundreds of moto taxis zooming around making stupid amounts of noise along with tooting their horns consistantly. I
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