Welcome to the Amazon Jungle.. home to billions of mosquitos that love me
April 17th 2010 Goodbye Andes, We have had a marvelous time but now we must experience the wonders at your feet. Hello Amazon! We were greeted in Iquitos with smothering humidity and a little Peruvian man from Cumaceba Lodge. We piled into a van and raced from the airport to our hotel. The short trip was strangely reminiscent of my Mario cart days on the old Nintendo 64, the way we dodged in and out of tuk-tuks
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Ancient Peru was the seat of several prominent Andean civilizations, most notably that of the Incas whose empire was captured by the Spanish conquistadors in 1533. Peruvian independence was declared in 1821, and remaining Spanish forces defeated in 1... ... read more 
