I had decided I wanted to visit the jungle city of Iquitos as it was the biggest city in the world not connected by roads. Getting there would be easy, I could fly to Lima but I was really determined not to have to fly out. I didn't want to go back to Lima a …
I was in two minds as to whether I did an Amazon tour in Iquitos or not. I'd been doing some research before I arrived and everything I saw was hundreds of dollars a month and I'd done one before in Manaus in 2016, and honestly I didn't have the best time. It's not really …
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I arrived in Lima from Huaraz around 6pm on Saturday, I rushed back to my hostel and arranged to meet Lisidey for some food that night in Miraflores. Lisidey didn't speak any English and I thought it was time I tried to put my Spanish to the test again. I wasn't quite sure where we …
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After arriving at the hostel I was shown to a four bed dorm that for some reason no one else used during my entire stay. It always surprises me that people will not spend an extra 70p and will stay in an 8 bed dorm instead. I don't like the bigger dorms as more people …
It had rained heavily the night before but we awoke to clear skies. This was the first time on the trek. You can catchup with days 1 & 2 here. We were woken up at 5am with the sunlight, I put back on the clothes I'd worn for the two previous days which were by …
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