Blogs from Amazonas, Peru, South America - page 4

Just testing to see if I can load foties from my dig camera via my tablet. If no foties attached, ignore this blog !... read more

Dear Dear friends, This journey so far is filled with wonder at the incredible profusion of life in the Amazon as well as immense poverty and rubbish. I am currently inTarapoto for a day before I go to Monte Ingles. Being away from the Amazon really gives me a good perspecitive about how intense it is there. Just imagine the huge amount of energy that is the jungle. the plants the animals the river. Now throw a large city in the middle of it and throw in corporate irresponsibility. Mototaxis. Poverty.Then consider there is no where to put the trash. Oh and add magic. viola, you have Iquitos. it is the place to learn about the healing practices of the Amazon jungle. There is too much to learn in a short trip like mine of course, ... read more

Well, well, well, it's so wonderful so far! 6 hour flight from Dallas to Lima in a window seat with NO ONE IN THE MIDDLE SEAT, only wish I could've slept, she says as she is still standing at 4:30 am waiting fOr a 8am flight. My seat mate was a delightul woman, Annalee. Shegrew up in Lima and now lives in the DC area. Delightful folks in the airport, evennet three guys from Grand Junction and Carbondale. They each have a kayak to run rivers in the sacred vally.. Thing is, the counter people at Star Peru don't think they will fit on the plane! The airport cop on the beat where I have been hanging out since I arrived at midnight is keeping an eye out for me and being super helpful. Twice I ... read more

After three flights we arrived in Iquitos which is the largest city in the Amazon jungle and the largest city in the world which isn’t accessible by road. On the drive from the airport to our hotel we started to feel more like we were back in South East Asia rather than in Peru – we’d gone from approximately 5 degrees when we left Puno to about 28 degrees, high humidity and roads full of tuk-tuks! The following morning we were picked up by tuk-tuk at 9am and taken to the main Port of Iquitos. The port was actually just a set of uneven concrete stairs didn’t even reach the water (or boat) level so there was still a bit of a jump to get into our boat. We climbed on board with three Germans, one ... read more

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