Our taxi picked us up at 7am for our 8:17 flight. We arrived at the airport, and after a bit of confusion we checked in and got tags to check our bags. It was right around this time that we learned that the airport was closed due to rain and fog, so we spent the next 5 hours waiting for it to reopen and hoping that our flight to Iquitos would not be canceled. At 2pm, we boarded our flight and had an uneventful 2 hour flight to Iquitos, the largest Peruvian city on the Amazon river. This is what we could see as we started to land (snaking rivers):
When we disembarked, it was steaming hot and sunny. What a difference from Cusco!
And the differences don’t stop there. I felt like we were in a completely different country as we observed the activity along the road between the airport and downtown. Here, the primary modes of transportation are pedicabs and motorcycles, much like Southeast Asia. We will post some images in the coming days.
We ate in the hotel restaurant and the kids took a dip in the pool afterward, under the moon.
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