Blogs from Loreto, Peru, South America - page 19

Bonjour a tous, Jespere que tout le monde ce porte bien. Je me suis apercu quil y a plusieurs semaines deja que je nai pas donner de nouvelles. Ce nest pas parce que je ne pense pas a vous..oh non En m’engageant dans ce projet, je suis venu à la rencontre de moi-même. La petite fille se construit dans l’univers péruvien. Je suis venu ici avec de belles intentions et je me suis vite rendu compte de mon sentiment d’inutilité. J’entrais dans mes milieux d’implications avec le goût de leur faire voir autre chose, de mettre un sourire sur les visages des enfants ou bien de changer la journée d’un malade. Je me rends compte plutôt que c’est d’avantage d’apprentissage pour nous. Après avoir accepter que les enfants ne rentreront jamais avec le vouloir que je ... read more

We left Lima at 1 pm expecting to arrive in Pucalpa at 9 am to learn what we need to do from there in order to ¨do¨ the Amazon. None of that happened. After two landslides, the road connecting the cities was washed away so we got our luggage off the bus and walked around the missing piece of highway to a taxi on the other side where we got into a taxi that ran out of gas. So we tried pushing it and that didn´t work so we climbed into a golf-cart like thing and then into a bus and continued to Puculpa, arriving at 5 pm the following day. We were then rushed onto a huge ferry by our taxi driver who told us it departed in 30 minutes to Iquitos. Iquitos is the ... read more

Got off the boat in the winedark earlymorning, sleepy backpackers lounging around on the ground in front of the ship, waiting for their ship to come in, no doubt, since they were going upriver, my boat, another 8 hours downriver to iquitos.....we all jumped ship in this town called Nauta, which has this nifty invention called a 'paved highway', and so the eight hours of hammocky boat were reduced to 90 minutes.....well worth it, save for all the attendant destruction that an asphalt brings to the jungle.... Well, Iquitos was everything I thought it should be, I can understand now why Werner Herzog was so wowed by this as a location for Fitzcarraldo (which actually apparently happened in Puerto Maldonados, but probably not as scenic as here).... What we were probably looking at were scenes like ... read more

Bonjour a tous Et oui c;est moi la quatrieme personne du groupe. Cette semaine il fait pas mal plus chaud que les autres semaines. Il fait environ 40, donc avec les jeunes de la Restinga nous sommes aller au parc et apres a la picine. C;etais vraiment bien, c;etais la premiere fois que nous fesions autre chose que des devoirs avec les jeunes. J;ai vraiment aime ca. Les enfants sont vraiment different quand on s;amuse ensemble. France aime vraiment ca jouer avec les enfants, rien n;y personne ne peu l;empecher. Voici pourquoi, comme elle n;avait pas ses souliers, elle a donc decider de jouer nu pied. Les jeunes ici font tous ca, mais ilssont habituer de jouer sans soulier, pas nous. Resultat France c;est arracher la peau sous les pieds en jouent au soccer sur du ... read more

We caught a bus from from the desert to Lima, and from there we jumped on a plane to the jungle in the north of Peru. Destination - Iquitos. The largest city in the world (population roughly 400,000) that is inaccessible by road. The only ways to get in or out are plane or boat. The main aim was to find ourselves a tour in to the jungle. We spent almost half a day being harassed by people and talking with potential groups before settling on Yarapa river lodge. This lodge has a great reputation and are associated with Cornell uni over in the U.S. As such they are a bit pricey. Due to it being the quiet time of year at the moment we managed to get them down to half price for a 4 ... read more