Jan 16, 2011 - Amazonas

Då var det äntligen dags att åka till Amazonas, efter 2 timmars flygresa klev vi ur planet nära den lilla staden Leticia på gränsen till Peru och Brasilien. Inflygningen var makalös, vart man än tittade så var det enda man såg tät djungel och skog så långt man kunde se. Det första som slog oss när vi klev ur planet var temperaturskillnaden samt luftfuktigheten! Vi började med en båttur uppför Amazonas och vi hade sån tur så vi lyckades se de rosa delfinerna: http://carwingirl.blogg.se/images/2009/pinkdolphin_37452849_37672710.jpg Däremot...

Oct 10, 2010 - Colombia

Ciudad Perdida I have never heard of Ciudad Perdida before I looked at the travel guide. It is not well known as Macchu Picchu in Peru, is it. It sits at approximately 1200 meters (non-metric users, please look up the conversion) in Sierra Nevada in Colombia, not so far inland from the Caribbean coast. On the way into the Sierra Nevada, you can see the Caribbean ocean behind you. I went there with Magic Tour in a group of 8 including myself, plus Jose the cook and Pedro the guide. We passed the areas belong to native Americans including...

Dec 18, 2009 - Leticia, aux frontières des cultures amazoniennes

Après nos 6 jours de remontée du fleuve Amazone, nous sommes enfin arrivés à Tabatinga. On enfourche chacun une moto taxi, avec nos gros sacs à dos, pour aller à Leticia. C´est le moyen de locomotion le plus utilisé ici. En un clin d´oeil, nous passons en Colombie. Le changement de culture et de déco de Noël est radical! Hôtel trouvé, une grosse araignée en guise d´hôte nous accueille et nous effraie (surtout Ariane) pendant une demie heure... Le sauveur tueur d´araignée, Maxime, est enfin arrivé! Ouf! Nous sortons déguster des choses...

Dec 12, 2009 - La croisière infernale

Pour rejoindre la Colombie depuis Manaus, les deux seules solutions sont l´avion ou le bateau (sortes de bus de l´Amazone). Nous avons choisi celle-ci, plus populaire, plus économique et plus enrichissante. Nous voilà donc partis pour 5 jours et 5 nuits, avec pour lit un hamac et pour chambre un dortoir de 120 personnes, ouvert sur l´Amazone. Prévenus qu´il était préférable d´arriver tôt, nous installons nos hamacs 4 heures avant le départ. On a ainsi pu voir l´évolution de l´installation anarchique des hamacs. Au départ du bateau, on se...

Oct 31, 2009 - Tief im Amazonas-Dschungel

Nach ca. zehn Stunden Bootsfahrt sind wir endlich in Leticia angekommen. Lisa ging es sehr schlecht, sie hatte sich waehrend der Fahrt den Magen verdorben und bei der Hitze und dem Schaukeln des Bootes war die natuerlich nochmal doppelt so unangenehm. An der Grenze angekommen mussten wir noch die Reisepass-Formalitaeten erledigen, bis wir uns dann endlich auf die Suche nach einem Hostel machen konnten. Nachdem wir beim 2ten Anlauf fuendig wurden haben wir uns aufgemacht um Geld zu wechseln. Leider waren mal wieder alle nur daran...

Oct 30, 2009 - Down the amazon river...

Um von Leticia nach Tabatinga zu kommen mussten wir uns fuer 12 Stunden in ein enges Speedboat zwaengen. Nichts besonders Spektakulaeres drum auch kein langer Eintrag hierzu. Dieser Boottrip wird mir wohl als einer meiner schlimmsten in Erinnerung bleiben denn ich hatte mal wieder, ihr ahnt es schon, eine Lebensmittelvergiftung. Diesmal war es glaube ich das schmandige Wurstbroetchen das es zum Fruehstueck auf dem Boot gab. Die Haelfte der Zeit hab ich also halb tot am Fenster haengend verbracht und die anderen 6 Stunden auf der Toilette......

Jul 11, 2007 - COLOMBIA - Leticia

Wednesday 11th July 5 am tuk tuk to the ferry. We stopped at a petrol station and the driver asked me for 1 sole which I thought he was asking for on top of the 2 sole fare and having been very ripped off lately I got a bit funny. I then realized he just needed my fare to pay for the fuel as he had no money - felt pretty bad! Now this so called fast boat was not the Miami Vice type that gets you to Cuba in an hour but it was pretty nippy and I definitely booked the best one as it has life jackets and was not taking on water! I met a German...

Jun 8, 2006 - Iquitos-Leticia (COLOMBIA)

Tomé la lancha rapida a Santa Rosa, la frontera de Peru. 9 horas. Paramos en Chimbote y Caballococha , 2 pueblos infectos en el medio de la nada. Por fin llegamos a Santa Rosa en la tarde y de alli un bote a Leticia (Colombia), que queda cruzando el rio. Leticia es una metropolis comparado a Santa Rosa. Hay pistas asfaltadas, bases militares, tiendas elegantes, hasta Direct TV!, de todo. La iglesia es muy bonita y tiene ventiladores especiales y hasta parlantes. Hay museos con aire acondicionado! Tabatinga (lado brasilero) tambien es una...

Mar 24, 2006 - Leticia, Colombia

After six days aboard we arrived in Tabatinga, Brazil, where I caught a kombi across the border into Leticia, Colombia. Alex and I were boarding a water taxi up the Amazon to Parque Nacional Amacayacu, 75 km upstream from Leticia, when an American guy started chatting with us and promptly asked if we would like to stay at his farm, located only a few minutes by motorized canoe from the Park. Head-hunter, DEA, CIA, a narco, the anti-Christ. Phil Gonzalez is all of these things and non to the inhabitants of the Southern Colombian Amazon....

Aug 13, 2005 - Coffee in Colombia....

It is so nice to be able to walk around in a nice temperature. We went to the docks to find out about boats to Iquitos in Peru. We asked about 10 people and got 10 different answers, but most of them said yes there was a boat today but the times varied. We were told to go to Santa Rosa on the Peruvian side and get a boat from there but the boat wouldn't leave until 7pm. We had the whole day to do something so we decided to go for a coffee in Colombia! We had to get the 'motor boys' to take us to the border then change and get some colombian...

Nov 20, 2004 - Colombia - The Triple Frontier

Picture this ... You're hiking through the jungles of Colombia, following a machete-swinging local guide. It's very hot and very humid and you're constantly swatting at mosquitoes. You've stopped to visit a family in one indigenous village. As you talk, the wife is mashing boiled yucca, a local food staple resembling potato, from which she's going to make homemade beer. She and other family members are wearing clothes that are so faded and threadbare from countless wash and wear that they resemble something you'd throw out rather than use...

Oct 1, 2004 - Leticia & National Park Amacayacu

Here I am on the triple frontier - Colombia, Brasil and Peru. I flew into Leticia from Bogota and have booked a spot on board the Nim Mamoel Monteiro II leaving Monday for four days in my hammock floating down the Amazon River to Manaus. With two days to kill I headed to the local national park Amacayacu on the banks of the Amazon for two nights in the jungle. The park is a different amazon experience from the Cuyabena reserve in Ecuador, the park is very close to human settlement and the signs of human influence are everywhere. The park...