Tarzan is back in the jungle

When I was young, as in I guess 8 or 9 years old, one of my favourite TV programmes was Tarzan, and one of the odder competions that I won was being the best Tarzan with physique plus ability to do a Tarzan call. ( The other odd one was winning a donkey race, coming from last to first on the last lap).
I think I dreamt of one day being in the jungle. That dream came true a long while back in East Africa, Iguazu,Indonesia, Cambodia, and more recently tropical Queesland.

But what is jungle? I will have to check, but I guess the proper name is tropical rainforest.

Despite various tropical experiences, I have never been to the biggest one of all, the Amazon.

Today, that changes since we fly to Iquitos, the world's biggest city, not accessible by road. 600,000 people in the jungle. Tarzan missed that!

Iquitos, Peru 🇵🇪 lies on the main tributoŕy of the Amazon River and the Amazon itself. We plan to stay there for 3 days before taking 3 boats to cross the river to Manaus.

We stay at the Oasis hotel that sits over the river on stilts. It's about 10 minutes by boat outside the city, and from where we are, we see nothing of the city, just the river a d the jungle. Tarzan feels at home.

For those that don't know the Tarzan call, here it is:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MwHWbsvgQUE

And I looked up the definition of jungle, here it us : an area of land overgrown with dense forest and tangled vegetation, typically in the tropics.Leggi altro