Rio Amazonas

Welcome to the Jungle; We've got fun and games. Also really large insects, angry street dogs, a popular importation site of Mototaxis, loose immigration laws, and really really nice juice. After Lima, I flew to Iquitos. Iquitos is located on an island with rivers on each side. These rivers merge into one at the further eastern point in the city creating the Amazon River. Iquitos is well into the jungle though. It hold the world record for the largest city unreachable by road, giving two options: to fly or to take the long and hot boat ride down the Amazon.

From Iquitos, it is a easy to access the jungle. The rivers act as a highway penetrating into the almost humanless expanses. Small pueblos dot the river side, but close to the reserves, the jungle become too dense to even see in.

The Amazon is full of animals... none of which are easy to catch on film. I did get to see monkeys, slothes, river dolphins, pink dolphins, bugs, fish, and tons of birds though. I took a long and slow ride down the Amazon after Iquitos to the point where Brazil, Peru, and Colombia meet. The Colombian side is called Leticia. I stayed far too long as Colombia stops functioning during their national holidays.