by Jonathan Evans | Feb 20, 2010 | Peru, South America
At 2am last Tuesday morning, the good ship Henry 3 arrived finally at the port of Pucallpa more than 100 hours after leaving Iquitos. This was not the happy moment I was expecting. It had taken nearly 4 days for me to be truly sick of the boat, the river, the food, my...
by Jonathan Evans | Feb 20, 2010 | General Travel
I haven’t had chance to look at this properly, but it looks wonderful – Google have teamed up with Russian Railways to allow you to travel the Trans-Siberian railway. When I have my proper computer back I’ll take a more detailed look, so let me know...
by Jonathan Evans | Feb 18, 2010 | Colombia, Peru, South America
We’ve spent nearly 3 weeks all told in the Amazon region, half in Colombia and half in Peru. I have lots of notes and photos that will one day find themselves onto the blog, but at the moment by and large I’m limited to public internet access or my iPod...
by Jonathan Evans | Feb 17, 2010 | Colombia, South America
They don’t call it the rainforest for nothing. It sounds like a train coming – it’s perfectly dry and simply overcast and all of a sudden you hear a noise like a strong wind coming. It gets louder and louder, the sky turns instantly darker and within...
by Jonathan Evans | Feb 10, 2010 | Peru, South America
Spent 10 hours of yesterday bouncing (that’s on a boat not a spacehopper) up the river Amazon to get to Iquitos in Peru, a town of 370,000 people, that has the honour of being the largest city in the world only accessible by boat or air. It’s a chaotic...
