THE AMAZON Next stop...Lima, Peru!

Austin and Kenz at the Iquitos airport
View from Iquitos dock
View from Iquitos dock
Greg and Paul Wright the owner of the Amazon Tour Cruises and El Arca

The crew in Iquitos Peru, El Arca expedition boat
Our crew on the 35 ft. El Arca skiff on Rio Tahuayo
Our crew on the 35 ft. El Arca skiff on Rio Tahuayo
Our crew on the 35 ft. El Arca skiff on Rio Tahuayo

El Arca 38 passenger, 115 ft. Amazon expedition boat
Iquitos, Peru
Iquitos, Peru
El Arca

Our crew on the 35 ft. El Arca skiff on Rio Tahuayo
Our crew on the 35 ft. El Arca skiff on Rio Tahuayo
Dug out canoe of South American Cedar on Rio Tahuayo
Rio Tahuayo

Our crew on the 35 ft. El Arca skiff on Rio Tahuayo
Dug out canoe of South American Cedar on Rio Tahuayo
Amazon sunset near Rio Tahuayo
Amazon sunset near Rio Tahuayo

Amazon sunset near Rio Tahuayo
Greg, Cindy and McKenzie on Amazon sunrise bird watching on Nauta Cano River, 175 miles upstream of Iquitos
Greg, Cindy and McKenzie on Amazon sunrise bird watching on Nauta Cano River, 175 miles upstream of Iquitos
Greg, Cindy and McKenzie on Amazon sunrise bird watching on Nauta Cano River, 175 miles upstream of Iquitos

Greg, Cindy and McKenzie on Amazon sunrise bird watching on Nauta Cano River, 175 miles upstream of Iquitos
Amazon River fisherman near Rio Maranon
Amazon River fisherman near Rio Maranon
South American cedar dug out canoes

Typical Amazon River house with dug out canoes docked in front
South American cedar dug out canoes
Typical Amazon River house
South American cedar dug out canoes

Greg, Cindy and McKenzie on Amazon sunrise bird watching on Nauta Cano River, 175 miles upstream of Iquitos
Sardine fish that jumped in Greg's lap on Amazon sunrise bird watching on Nauta Cano River, 175 miles upstream of Iquitos
Termite nest on jungle walk near Nauta Cano River
Termite nest on jungle walk near Nauta Cano River

South American cedar dug out canoes
South American cedar dug out canoes
South American cedar dug out canoes
Amazon River water taxi on Maranon River, 175 miles upstream of Iquitos

Austin with red ginger used for face paint, purple color
Reticulated poison frog found on jungle walk that is used for Yaguas Indians' blow gun darts
Heliconia flowers on Amazon jungle walk
Sign identifying jungle trail

Paper wasp nest on Amazon jungle walk
El Arca our Amazon cruising vessel on Nauta Cano River
Amaral family on skiff, Yarapa River with El Arca in background
Fishing upper reaches of Amazon

El Arca skiff on Maranon River
Greg swimming in the Nauta Cano fork of the upper Amazon
The Amaral kids on El Arca getting ready for piranha fishing on Yarapa River
Amaral family on skiff, Yarapa River with El Arca in background

Typical Amazon River house
Ali with her first Amazon Mota catfish
Ali with her first Amazon Mota catfish
Mota catfish

McKenzie with her first red bellied piranha
McKenzie with her first red bellied piranha
Segundo our guide giving us a red bellied piranha demonstration with an unlucky Mota catfish
Segundo our guide giving us a red bellied piranha demonstration with an unlucky Mota catfish

Cindy with first Mota catfish
Wyatt with a Mota catfish
Cindy with first Mota catfish
McKenzie fishing on the Yarapa River

McKenzie fishing on the Yarapa River
Ali with first red bellied piranha
Ali with first red bellied piranha
Cindy and McKenzie with red bellied piranha in upper Amazon

Cindy and McKenzie with red bellied piranha in upper Amazon
Cindy and McKenzie with red bellied piranha in upper Amazon
Amazon night boat excursion on Yarapa River
Amaral kids with tree boa constrictor

Red bellied piranha, notice the teeth
Red bellied piranha
Segundo preparing for Amazon night boat excursion on Yarapa River
Tree boa constrictor Yarapa River night excursion

Segundo pulling Amazon tree boa from acacia tree
Segundo pulling Amazon tree boa from acacia tree
Amaral kids holding spectacled caiman
Greg holding spectacled caiman

Amaral kids with tree boa constrictor
Amaral kids with tree boa constrictor
Amazon tree boa constrictor
Spectacled caiman pulled from Rio Yarapa on night boat excursion

Gina holding spectacled caiman
Amaral kids holding spectacled caiman
Amaral kids holding spectacled caiman
Amaral kids with tree boa constrictor

Amaral kids holding spectacled caiman
Amaral kids holding spectacled caiman
Woman and her young daughter from village of Jaldar washing clothes
Woman and her young daughter from village of Jaldar washing clothes

Greg holding spectacled caiman
Rio Yarapa at sunrise
Amaral family and Gina on tour of Jaldar village
Gina in school teacher's quarters in village of Jaldar

Woman and her young daughter from village of Jaldar washing clothes
Jaldar village sign
Woman and her young daughter from village of Jaldar washing clothes
Woman and her young daughter from village of Jaldar washing clothes

Sale put on by Jaldar women put on for our benefit
Sale put on by Jaldar women put on for our benefit
Sale put on by Jaldar women put on for our benefit
Sale put on by Jaldar women put on for our benefit

Gina ringing bell to start the school day in village of Jaldar
Gina ringing bell to start the school day in village of Jaldar
Jaldar village sign
South American cedar dug out canoe

McKenzie in Jaldar pre school
Amaral family in village of Jaldar on Rio Yarapa in Upper Amazon basin
Wyatt with an orange cheeked parrot in Jaldar
Wyatt with an orange cheeked parrot in Jaldar

McKenzie with an orange cheeked parrot in Jaldar
Austin with an orange cheeked parrot in Jaldar
Austin with an orange cheeked parrot in Jaldar
Segundo, Ali and Austin checking out the Jaldar community jail

Segundo, Austin, Wyatt and McKenzie checking out the Jaldar community jail
Austin in Jaldar community jail cell
Ali checking out Amazon River basin corn in Jaldar house
Segundo visiting a house in Jaldar

Tinaja pot to make masato drink, mixture of yucca and saliva. Saliva ferments the yucca, and in 4 days makes 8% alcohol. Masato is drunk at weddings and birthdays.
Rio Yarapa corn in Jaldar upper Amazon basin
Austin and Wyatt piranha fishing from first deck of El Arca
Austin and Wyatt piranha fishing from first deck of El Arca

Rio Yarapa jungle cruise on skiff
Rio Yarapa jungle cruise on skiff
Rio Yarapa jungle cruise on skiff
Rio Yarapa jungle cruise on skiff

Rio Yarapa jungle cruise on skiff
Rio Yarapa jungle cruise near village of Puerto Miguel
El Arca on Rio Yarapa
El Arca on Rio Yarapa

River people, or mestizo family in cedar dug out canoe on Rio Yarapa
River people, or mestizo family in cedar dug out canoe on Rio Yarapa
River people, or mestizo family in cedar dug out canoe on Rio Yarapa
Port at Iquitos


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