Blogs from Ucayali, Peru, South America - page 3

Advertisement

South America » Peru » Ucayali » Atalaya May 1st 2010

Sephaua, at last a town with a hostel including a comfy bed and running water! We were living the dream overlooking a beautifal park where we had the choice of a variety of cheap but tasty restaurants and even managed to wash our damp filthy clothes. After being befriended my a few local drunks whose only intentions were to get beer bought for them we decided to seek refuge in our hostel, and enhance our card playing skills! It was all well and good being off the tourist trail, but we wanted to do a bit of trekking etc in the jungle, but we couldn't seem to find any way to do it. We liked the place, but as we'd been without cashpoints for over a week, we had to move on to Atalaya before we ... read more
Bit of a tight squeeze!
View down to the river from our hostel in Sepahua
Coming into Atalaya

South America » Peru » Ucayali » Pucallpa December 19th 2009

I´m going to Pucallpa for holidays I´m planning to go to San Francisco a native community where I´ll be in a Shamanic session... again... I have a couple of friends from Czech Republic so we´re a group, anyway if anyone wants to join us just let me know. I´ll fly on Dec 24th but my friends are there already.... read more

South America » Peru » Ucayali January 19th 2009

We were awoken on New years day when the sun was barely rising over the horizon. It was dim and grey with a slight patter of rain tapping on the old tin roof that gave us shelter. The Shaman had arrived early looking bright and cheery as he always does and I started to wonder if he even sleeps at all. We were all still a bit dreggy from the previous nights festivities which concluded with some celebratory new years eves cheers and beers, effigy burning and even an alcohol induced fist fight amongst the locals showed that even in the deep jungle there are people that cant handle their grog. The Shaman had prepared a big pot of Ayauma fruit and leaves that he had been steeping overnight that we were to take a bath ... read more
Little Kid
Traditional Cloth Weaving
Learning to Weave

South America » Peru » Ucayali » Pucallpa January 16th 2009

Hi there I´m posting some pics of Pucallpa I hope all of you enjoy them! ... read more

South America » Peru » Ucayali December 31st 2008

Can you imagine a place in this world today where money is no longer needed, where endless varieties of fresh fruit trees are growing surrounded by crystal clear water filled with ample fish that are swimming around your ankles? It almost sounds like a dream to find a place where we are not caught in the endless monetary trap of buying and selling and worrying about bills and car payments working in a job we don’t even like. We thought we found this place in San Francisco yet the local people here are heading the other way. They want all the fancy gadgets the west has to offer and are already trapped in the vicious cycle to pay for these unnecessary things. After living in San Francisco, Peru for almost a month, I met up with ... read more
Life on the Boat
Nueve de Octubre
Cielo

South America » Peru » Ucayali » Pucallpa November 20th 2008

Pucallpa is in the heart of Peru. It lies about 1500kms from the coastal capital of Lima and is known as the gateway to the Amazon. It is on the river Ucayali which connects to Brazil and the mighty Amazon River. My main reason for coming to this area has been due to my long time curiosity with medicinal plants that come from this area and shamans that use these plants to cure apparent life threatening diseases and to gain knowledge directly from the deep states of mind some of these plants supposedly induce. Other bloggers such as Joel Harris and Soul Cultivator have only made me even more fascinated to come here and make my own personal viewpoint to whether it is real or just a big superstition. Pucallpa was quite different from what I ... read more
Traditional Shipibo Dress
Rosi
Joseline

South America » Peru » Ucayali » Pucallpa July 20th 2008

When a curandero (shaman) dies, it hits you, it hits the whole town, it hits the people, it hits the animals, the insects, the plants and even the weather. I am in my chakra (hut) with a few members of the family I am staying with in San Francisco: The biggest Shipibo village in Peru (2.500 inhabitants). We were resting to be a bit more fit for the ayahuasca ceremony this evening. But there wouldn't be a ceremony, not tonight .... It started when they were spreading messages in the megaphone (that is how they spread news in sucha villages). Since it was in Shipibo I had no idead what was going on until Flora called me in the dark and asked me to come to her. She and Darwin had a very serious face and ... read more

South America » Peru » Ucayali » Pucallpa July 17th 2008

Sorry for the text and images getting mixed up, frustrating ... Next time no text, just pix. ... read more

South America » Peru » Ucayali » Pucallpa July 17th 2008

Jaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay, Before I'm writing my next entry I'll place some pictures here regarding my last entry. I am in a fast cybert in Iquitos, the biggest city in the jungle, BUT that story is for later. Now, picture town. Pucallpa, crazy monkey town: The harbor, some pix and some images of the river Ucayali: In Puerto Nuevo, the ayahuasca, ready to brew, takes up to 24 hours for a good preparation:img=http://i115.photobucket... read more

South America » Peru » Ucayali » Pucallpa July 15th 2008

Well, It's crazyness in crazy monkey town with like a billion of mototaxis driving around, so I know I won't be able to sleep, so I'll give this a try. No pictures though ... my cam is still in my room, so I need to upload that tomorrow. So Sunday morning we took off to Pto Nuevo with a 12 hour boat ride, we arrived way too late in the dark, awaited by some kids and girls from the Shipibo tribe. Pto Nuevo is a little village with about 100 inhabitants, near a river in the Amazon. They have some solar energy which they use for a microphone, a few lamps and a few radios. Besides that, there is no luxury, no ipods, no playstations, no internet, so ... a very nice, relaxing, quiet place. So ... read more




Tot: 0.134s; Tpl: 0.006s; cc: 11; qc: 74; dbt: 0.0656s; 1; m:domysql w:travelblog (10.17.0.13); sld: 1; ; mem: 1.2mb