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...
by Jonathan Evans | Feb 8, 2010 | Brasil, Colombia, Peru, South America
A quick update from Leticia – got back here last night from a few days in Puerto Narino, which is 70km up the Amazon towards Peru. Tomorrow we’re getting a fast boat from Santa Rosa (an island across the river in Peru) to Iquitos (also in Peru). To buy the...
by Jonathan Evans | Jan 28, 2010 | Colombia, South America
So, we turn up at the airport all excited this morning, ready to begin the jungle adventure. Monkeys here we come!! Except that our ticket is for the 30th and today is the 28th. Kinda put a damper on things… But, guess what? The day after tomorrow I’m off...
by Jonathan Evans | Jan 26, 2010 | Colombia, South America
So I’ve got you all excited with a new blog design, loads of fascinating and insightful commentary to read and now I’m going to bugger off for a couple of weeks. Your disappointment is tangible. This is not because I don’t love you – you know I...
by Jonathan Evans | Jan 23, 2010 | Colombia, South America
Cocaine is a tricky thing. You can have as many high-profile ad campaigns promoting tourism as you want, place all the police you have on every street corner and generally clean your act up for both residents and tourists alike, but at the end of the day, people in...
