Salida del amazonas

Leaving the amazon is not as easy as entering the amazon....

After an incredible time in Macedonia, I decided to take the speed boat (19 hours...) from Leticia in Colombia to Iquitos, Peru.

Originally, I was going to take the 3 day slow boat, but as Christmas gets close, I'm starting to feel like time is against me. Buying a ticket for the speed boat, though, was an interesting challenge!

Leticia (Colombia) was where I started, I then had to cross into Tabatinga (Brazil) to buy a boat ticket from a Peruvian company.

After crossing into Brazil and returning with my ticket, it was time to get the boat. I walked to the harbour with a new friend called Noah where we found a family with a wooden boat who would take us over the river to Santa Rosa (Peru) so that we could do our immigration.

Crossing the river in this tiny boat was interesting, but we made it. On the other side, we took a tuktuk to immigration before travelling back to take a new motorboat to reach our ferry, which we had now been told was further up the coast of the island!

The last twist was the timing of the boat. We knew it left at 1 pm, but on our way to it, we realised that my phone now said 12:55pm Peru and Noah's said 11:55am Colombia. To top it all off, we realised that we'd technically bought the ticket in Brazil!?

Fortunately for us, this is Latin America, and even though we were on time, the ferry was late anyway. Our reward for all this was entry to Iquitos and Peru!Read more