Blogs from Iquitos, Loreto, Peru, South America - page 8

Hola! This is my first ever attempt of a blog. So bear with me. So far, I love Peru. My first experience was with Lima, and because of that, I could easily forgive the fog, the drizzle, the cold and the bustle of big cities I am generally uncomfortable with. However, the language isolation and the dislike of the bustle of the big re-entered...and the dreadful flu I contracted made my last four days kinda rotten. But then....ILEFTANDCAMETOIQUITOS! This city is awesome. Although still a busy city, it's motos instead of cars, and there's sun, and it's along a lovely river called the "Amazon", and the people in this mighty jungle are absolutely lovely. So...why am I here? - follow the money: Money form CIDA (for international interns) is given to the Atlantic Council International Cooperation ... read more

This summer I had an unfogettable experience in the most amazing and alive place on our planet, the Amazon jungle rainforest. My friend and I decided that we had to take a trip, and where better than to the very lungs of the Earth? We found our guide-to-be, Gerson, on this very website! He introduced himself to us as someone who had been in the touring business since his youth, and was now offering tours independently with his own company. He was tired of all the exploitation of the local people by big companies who were from elsewhere, so he started the company Curuhuinsi, which actually benefits the locals. So we toured a bit of Peru, and then flew to the city of Iquitos. He met us at the airport in Iquitos, and greeted us very ... read more

I´m well-rested and well-fed and ready to write more blog (at least until we head out for dinner). We last left our heroine feeling recovered and rejuvinated in the rainforest (well that´s a stretch...). The second day of clinic went much better than the first. I have to get the names of these villages. All I know is that we never made it to the actual Amazon river, but to the tributaries. But really, seen one rainforest village seen ´em all. I was actually hungry and able to eat breakfast. After a modest breakfast of a runny egg (that was AFTER asking them to cook it completely, you should have seen it before!)and the best white bread I´ve ever had (wonder bread tastes better in the amazon after 24hrs of not eating), we set off for ... read more

I´ll put this out in installments since I don´t seem to have time to sit down and write it all out at once... Written yesterday but published today: What an interesting 4 days... Just got back today to Iquitos -- still in the Amazon, but it´s a pretty developed city (especially compared to what we just came from). At my last writing, I was sitting in an internet cafe much like this one (a little seedier and without air conditioning) on the other side of town. I met the guys out for some drinks and had a nice relaxing night in the square by the river. The next morning we took a bus about 2 hours outside the "city" to Nauta -- the farthest major city that you can drive to towards where we were going. ... read more

And mine is eating fish, Three days before I went into the hospital after one day and a night of horrible pain (I never visited a toilet so much in sucha short time ...) after eating fish with a local in the fishmarket here in Iquitos (Biggest city in the jungle, only reachable by boat and plane). I started to get fever and when I checked I saw I had more than 41 degrees. Oh, boy, that's dangerous, I almost roled downstairs in the hotel, mumbled what was going on and a friendly mototaxidriver drove me to the hospital and waited the whole time with me there to give me courage. I got two baxters and I was hallucinating from fever, it was terrible, vomiting ..... Argh. After midnight they let me go back to my ... read more