The Sea Plane

How do you get out of Iquitos? No road access, remember? Boats take days and we felt like we had already done that experience. Our crazy hostel owner also told us that the boat from Iquitos to Leticia, our next destination, was even grottier and nasty than the boat we had caught from Yurimaguas - didn't take long to decide to veto the idea of the second 3/4 day long boat journey.

The sea plane, we were informed was cheap and the fastest and easiest way of getting to away from Iquitos and it sounded like a bargain for a pretty cool experience so we got ourselves up bright and early and get to the military base where the plane left from.

There was a catch on the price and an issue with where the plane was going on the day we traveled. We had to make the last leg of the journey by ourselves by boat. The baggage allowance was 10k per person so we all had to pay (and me the most of all given that my backpack is a monster) a ridiculous amount of extra soles in excess baggage. This made me very very very grumpy.

Fortunately this soon passed and I enjoyed the flight, taking off from water with in a plane driven by two peruvian airforce men was pretty cool after all.

Sad thing was when we got to wherever it was we got to next it took as quite a while (two days) to work out how to get to Santa Rosa and then Leticia. People in the jungle just can't tell the truth to white people with backpacks. Fact.

So these photos are very uninspired but you get the idea.