Day 10

After a short few hours of sleep, we woke up at 2:30 and packed our stuff together. We walked to the pick up point of the llama airport taxi and went to the airport. Our plane to Iquitos left the ground right on time, and we had a window seat! Eike slept most of the way, but Nina had spectacular views from the window. Once we came near the amazon, the clouds came in and there was nothing to see anymore. When we landed, it was raining, which is not strange because it is rainy season here. We were picked up with a tuktuk, or also called mototaxi. It is very different over here, and it reminds me (Nina) a lot of vietnam. There are almost no cars, but a lot of mototaxis and motors. Once we put all our stuff in the extremely cheap hostel (€2,50 per night per person, including breakfast and swimmingpool), we went for a walk. We went into a market, which was not so spectacular because it was only for fruit and meat. Then we went to see the water side. We found a small alley that went to some really steep stairs down, and under it the walking path went further into heaps of wooden boards nailed together, with a lot of trash floating between. The road went futher around the corner, but there was a place where we could sit and drink a nice cold beer, so we stayed there. They played really really loud 90's eurodance. We sat there and watched the people walking on the floating walkway, and saw some crazy stuff. A man who was carrying a giant refrigerator on his back, another with a big pile of boxes with bananas, but the craziest was a man who was carrying a scooter, a motobike on his schoulders! And it was not like they only walked on the floating path, they all carried that stuff down that super steep, quite high stairs! We went back to the hostel, arranged a jungle tour for the next 4 days, and went to eat something. The rain had stopped and the sun came out, so the humidity got quite bad. It will get even worde in te jungle... 🤭 we drank some beer next to the pool with our feet in the water and that helped. We met a german guy, who invited us for kaffee und kuchen, which was nice. We saw our first gecko of this trip finally! 🦎
P.S. there are a lot of people here doing ayahuasca tourism. A lot of hippies. They meet a sjaman and pay a lot of money, and then go into the jungle and do ayahuasca. Or a new trendy thing aparently is, letting yourself be injected with frog poison and then vomit all your insides out, and that is then considered 'a clensing'Läs mer