Jungle boy

Another reason for taking this agency was a schedule of the trip. On the contrary to all others agencies around the city we had started very early in the morning with breakfast:). Of course you need to be a tough guy like me to wake up at 6 o’clock. And you know I don’t like to waste my time, which I am paying for!

After 2 months in Peru I have noticed that anyone who transports people can predict such a simple thing like refuelling before his passengers appear. As if they all were afraid, that no one will come.

Firstly we were about to see grey and pink dolphins. I was travelling with a couple from Belgium that had paid only to see those animals before they took off to Lima. On my way from Pucallpa I had spotted so many dolphins so I though I would be able to see them now from close distance. Unfortunately our small boat was fast enough to make it impossible to see any. Later we stopped in some small village to have a break and eat something. But we wanted to see anything, so we were standing there on some kind of pier near our speedboat and scanning the horizon. As you can imagine dolphins were to far away to see them well, just shapes of their tails.

While we were trying to spot anything that looked like a dolphin another boat came. It was full of people and all they had with them. My guide told me, that most of those people were already travelling for 10h and as the boat was going from one village to other they would arrive to Iquitos in 6-8 hours (it was only 100km to Iquitos). Nice!

After an hour of watching the river I left the pair from Belgium, I don’t think they saw anything more. 30 minutes more in that speedboat and I was in the middle of nowhere. We had about 1h of walking. My adventure in jungle had just begun.