The nether world (Jonathan)
I should talk a little about Hell, since it figures prominently in some of the new pictures posted...
13 Augosto 2005
Infierno, Peru. Bugs. Chickens. A Gazebo. Skinny dogs. Clueless Gringos. Information is hard to come by in the jungle. So we sit and wait in the generous shade of this tree and this gazebo. A stranger comes by heading back to Puerto Maldonado and he tells us the boat to Picaflor is in at 10 AM--how nice to have a time of arrival. However, departure is a different story here in Hell. It is now 11:30 and no boatman yet, everyone is drinking beer. Saturday in Hell. Hell is hot, has a store that sells potato chips (Peru potatoes) and boats that more or less regularly go upstream to Picaflor and Tambopata Lodge. We are staying at the former.
The heat sucks the life out of me, bugs want to share my shade and my blood and it feels like the small amount of spanish I know is interpreted with the opposite of its intended meaning. We are finally picked up at 2:30, 5.5 hours in Hell later. We are taken to Picaflor Research Center in under an hour and a half (fast boat!). Check out our pictures of hell!
13 Augosto 2005
Infierno, Peru. Bugs. Chickens. A Gazebo. Skinny dogs. Clueless Gringos. Information is hard to come by in the jungle. So we sit and wait in the generous shade of this tree and this gazebo. A stranger comes by heading back to Puerto Maldonado and he tells us the boat to Picaflor is in at 10 AM--how nice to have a time of arrival. However, departure is a different story here in Hell. It is now 11:30 and no boatman yet, everyone is drinking beer. Saturday in Hell. Hell is hot, has a store that sells potato chips (Peru potatoes) and boats that more or less regularly go upstream to Picaflor and Tambopata Lodge. We are staying at the former.
The heat sucks the life out of me, bugs want to share my shade and my blood and it feels like the small amount of spanish I know is interpreted with the opposite of its intended meaning. We are finally picked up at 2:30, 5.5 hours in Hell later. We are taken to Picaflor Research Center in under an hour and a half (fast boat!). Check out our pictures of hell!
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