Leaving Northern Amazonias Brazil to Iquitos

Our adventure began leaving from the port city of Leticia Colombia taking a what they referred as "Peque Peque" smaller boat 10 horse power engine as we departed our boat owner had a very small boat, I felt it could be dangerous during 3 o clock as the Amazonias waters are with heavy current, we tried to cross but obviously we couldn't the boat felt like it was going to flip a few times, so we had no choice but to go back and catch another boat..

As we made our way finally to Santa Eosa an island belonging to Peru, we stamped our passports and I found a very good map of the yavari river found many peruvian small settlements located all along the yavari a good intel for future explorations of this wonderful river..

Our boat a "Crusero" that takes 2 days 3 nights to Iquitos, arrived at the docking station we boarded to find out all the middle hammock spaces were taken so we proceed to the upstairs deck which to my opinion it's even better having a great view of the Amazonias..

As we waited for the boat to leave our schedules departure was around 7:00PM
Unfortunately this was the day of the big game Chile VS Peru and in front of the port there was a projector with the whole town watching the game so the captain of the team decided to chill and watch the game from the top of his captain room letting the rest of 200 passengers sit in limbo for let's say 11:30PM, 4 hours later when we finally left!!!!

We had a really good dinner I highly recommend it don't bring your own food, is cheap and Yumie!

I set up a "mosquitero" mosquito net over my hammock and is definitely a great shield against those suckers, every time I headed to the bathroom I could see them hovering all over the boat, getting bust with other flesh..

I highly recommend to bring the following if you bring a slow boat from Leticia to Iquitos:

1.-Hammock

2.-Mosquito net

3.-Blanket or pack a good jacket nights are very Chili

4.-Lock and chain to secure your belongings

5.-Make sure all your high tech devices are properly charged! You have long way to go!

6.-Your own eating utensils


So after few days in the boat it started to get really hot!! Then as we slowly picked up more passengers on every village across the Amazonias the space for hammocks became extremely tight one moment I was comfortable next moment I was stuck in between three people all over me but this is real life amazon experience meeting all kinds of people super friendly, food after few days was gone and we ran out of supplies so I learned from now on most likely if I want to travel down amazon ill be doing it Vũ rapid boats than slow boats

Until the next adventure!!

Thanks for reading
Memo

Visiting Chachapoyas Valley Kuelap

An ancient mythological character of ancient Peru, the story goes he came from the seas, seeding civilization, referring to the valley of Lambayeque, he came with his wife named "Cererni" and built a temple named "Chot" the tale says he brought a green jade idol named "Llampayec", which actually that's where Lambayeque name region originates, the story says his successor "Tempellec" tried to move the idol and this brought a diludge.



Naylamp then moved to the Sierra into the valley of Caxamarca, where supposedly he engineer water propulsion technologies using geothermal hot springs, building a city in what we know today as of "Kuelap" the legend goes that Naylamp and its people are buried in the sarcophagus of "Karajia" this mysterious sarcophagus measured around 2 meters in diameter longer than the regular measure of the Amerindian living around this valley.


This unknown race of people I wrote on my book "Backpsckers Guide to Ancient and Mystical sites" had strangely white long beards, resembling to a Caucasian males, remember Amerindian have no facial hair so here we see perhaps hard evidence of an unknown race of people that perhaps influenced the ancient history of Peru and of the Americas..



There are some evidence in the Archeological record, perhaps linking Naylamp as a Mayan Ruler that perhaps visited South America, leading a trail of civilization in a map referred as Miscelánea Antártica, Naylamp was also referred as "The One with the Wind" I propose Naylamp is the equivalent of "Quetzalcoatl" the god of wind in the mesoamerican cosmology.

Perhaps one day the mystery will be revealed but the myth still live as of today and in this myth we can re-live an ancient tale told by our ancient forefathers that incredibly still exists today and its our job to continue the tradition of story telling as a one of the most wonderful gifts given to us by the gods to remember..

During the up and coming Ascension Adventures experience this summer 2013 we will be visiting this incredible ancient sites located in the Chachapoyas Valley in the foothills of the Amazonias!!

Till the next adventure!!
Guillermo