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