Loading bananas

At a small village on the Amazon, Peru, January 2010

We are on the ship Cabo Pantoja. At every stop they load more and more bananas, pigs, cows and passangers. On the way from Pantoja to Iquitos. Here you find more from our Amazon trip.

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Cabo Pantoja

The ship Cabo Pantoja on the Amazon, Peru, January 2010

A stop for loading, somewhere on the Amazon, one day by boat upstream from Iquitos. On this ship we met the Peruvian girl with her pet.

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Peruvian girl with her pet

On board "Cabo Pantoja", Peru, January 2010

We spend five days on this ship on our way from Pantoja to Iquitos on the Rio Napo (Amazon). People had a lot of animals on board, to sell them or to eat them, but this little ape was one of the few pets. The girl looks sad here, but she was proud of her animal and normaly her face was curious.



A is for Amazon

These people come close to our ship and wait for plastik bags with t-shirts.

On board from our cargo and passanger ship, the only private area is your hammock

Thomas and his friends

chicken, turtel, little monkeys on the passanger deck

Andreas watches a small village

The men bring bananas and pigs on board

All photos between Pantoja (Peru) and Belem (Brazil). That was a long trip. One of our biggest adventures.
And, you know, I love the Amazon.

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My related posts for the Amazon

Tres Fronteras

Going in a small boat from Peru to Brazil, February 2010

From Wikipedia:
Tres Fronteras (Portuguese: Três Fronteiras) is the Spanish name for an area of the Amazon Rainforest, noted for its natural beauty, where Brazil, Peru, and Colombia meet. Cities near here are Tabatinga, Leticia, and Santa Rosa de Yavari, this latter on an island in front of Leticia.

A very interesting stop on our trip down the Amazon in this three cities and three countries all so close together. But try to imagine how hot and humid it is.

By ship we came in two days from Iquitos (Peru), spend one night in the very quite Santa Rosa (no cars), spend three more nights in Tabatinga. To Leticia we drove by mini bus to change money.

Our trip on the Amazon continued from Tabatinga to Manaus (Brazil). Again two days on a local ship. All easy to organize while we were there.

I posted some photos from this leg before.

Simple sale

At the Amazon, Santa Rosa, Peru, February 2010

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If you need a haircut in Amazonia

A hairdresser's, in a smal village on the Amazon, between Pantoja and Iquitos, Peru, January 2010

Typical houses

Do you see my boys in the mirror (first photo)?

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Thumbs up

On a ship, on the Amazon, Peru, February 2010

Rays of sunshine



At the shore from the community Paula Cocha at the Rio Napo (tributory to the Amazon), Peru, January 2010

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The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain

In a smal village on the Amazon, between Iquitos and Santa Rosa, Peru, February 2010

The quote is from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Tropical cloud – and the jungle

In Nuevo Rocafuerte, on the Rio Napo, Ecuador, January 2010.

The Rio Napo is a tributary to the Amazon River. It rises in Ecuador.

To get an idea from the Amazon Rainforest we followed the Rio Napo down to the vast Amazon, from the town Francisco de Orellana (or better known as Coca) in Ecuador, all the way to Belem in Brasil. For tansportation we used different local ships. Across the jungle.

Crossing the Peruvian border in a dug-out

The Cabo Pantoja is ready for leaving. In Pantoja, the border town, Peru.

If you are looking for an adventure, that' it.

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