Travelblog SA#14: Iquitos – Peru

30th August – 5th September 2018 Sometimes when travelling you have rather romanticised expectations which do not deliver and such was the case when I embarked upon my journey to the Amazon. The idea was that I wanted to reach Iquitos – the Amazon’s biggest city, an urban pocket deep within the jungle – byContinue reading “Travelblog SA#14: Iquitos – Peru”

Travelblog SA#13: Chachapoyas – Peru

25th-28th August 2018 ‘Chachapoyas’ means ‘people of the clouds’ in Quechua,  and there is no mystery as to why this region was named such way as you are driven there through a series of winding roads cutting through the mountains. I arrived there at night, after a long day crossing the border from Ecuador whereContinue reading “Travelblog SA#13: Chachapoyas – Peru”