Tarapoto, Perú

After many days in the Amazon traveling within the jungle and along the river I finally made it to where the road starts. In Yurimaguas I caught a car to Tarapoto where I spent a few days with a great Couchsurfer Fernando and his family.

I was able to go to Sauce a beautiful little lake and try out the mud spa as well as another town called Lamas home to a castle and the Wayku people.

I'm the evenings Fernando showed me around town on motorcycle and I even met a random old Peruvian couple whose daughter lives in Minnesota and the señor fought along side Che in Cuba.Read more