Iquitos Stories


Jungle Rule No. 2 - DO NOT touch the trees. Spiders and snakes live there.

Our second day we went Caiman hunting and caught a little baby. we drove around in the dark for nearly two hours when our guide gave some sort of inaudible signal to the boat driver. ... side note, the jungle men have all these noises that dont sound human because the jaguars will pick it up and hunt them as prey - no joke! - so they hum, or whistle t...


Jungle Rule No. 1 - When in doubt. Run like Hell.

After an epic two week journey, about 30 hours of bus, combi and taxi time, 60 hours of river boat time, and numerous hours of waiting about, we arrived at our jungle lodge. Captains Log...´´The jungle isnt noisy - not like i thought it would be. the volume is still the same as the noise levels anywhere else in Peru... but it is the different nois...


You will know it is me, because I speak English.

We started from Yurimaguas and boarded a cruise type ship called Eduardo I. After a friend got his camera stolen i was a bit sketched out when stephen left to go to the bathroom on night 2. i told him i would lock the door behind him and that he should knock three times so that i knew it was him when he came back. He just looked at me, with those slee...


Fresh from the Amazon jungle...

My outreach team and I have just returned to modern civilization after 8 days and nights in the Amazon. We visited 5 villages around the area where the Amazon river begins. The only way to access these places is by boat. A few of these villages had never had a team of missionaries before in their village. As you can imagine, this meant there was always ...