We´re in the jungle!

Hey All We´re in the jungle and the craziest city I´ve ever visited – Iquitos, Peru. It´s the world´s biggest city that can´t be accessed by road (only by river and air). It is so loud, busy and fun. We´ve all been touched countless times because of our white skin, there are street sellers on every corner and at night the main square turns into a carnival with performers, fairy floss and even someone dress up as Winnie the Pooh. We´ve just visited the Belen Market and the ´floating city´ which due to the drought isn´t really floating but is just houses on big poles. A couple of police officers escorted us throughout the market which was slightly off putting as we weren´t sure what that meant. We left Tarapoto two days ago. Our whitewater rafting day was a lot of fun. At one stage we all just jumped in the river and floated as the current pulled us downstream. The same day we visited one of the ´sources´ of the Amazon River where we had lunch, tried some of the locals home brew (like tequila), popped into the thermal spas and finished the day at Papillion nightclub!!! Highlight of the nightclub was walking onto the packed dance floor and being the tallest person in the room by at least a head – I felt like a giant. We also got invited to a local´s house for dinner. When we caught our plane to Iquitos we were told that the plane left ´about´ 3pm. They couldn´t be more specific as Iquitos airport has lots of big black birds that fly around it and they have to wait until the birds have gone to bed (around 4pm apparently) before they can land the plane. We are now about to jump on a river boat for the start of the Amazon River component of our tour. Soon we´ll be in Brtazil. Hope everyone is well! Team Amazonia