Travelogues Amazonas

Travel route Peru After a turbulent time in Ecuador, we landed in Lima on October 15th. With a bit of sadness, we realized that we had seen so little of this amazing...

Baggage claim at Tabatinga airport

On a trip through South America, a visit to the Amazon Basin is definitely a must, after all, it is the largest river in the world and the rainforest covers a huge area of the...

Through northern Peru to Ecuador

Catarata Gocta

We flew from Bogotá to Leticia. The city is located in the middle of the Amazon and serves as a starting point for many tours in the Colombian part of the Amazon. It is situated...

Bogota

Sun, beach, and whales in Organos I am back again with two fresh travel reports. About four weeks ago, we went on our first trip to Organos, which is a small town about five...

Today we are heading to the Amazon with mixed feelings. We have watched about 200 documentaries so far. Most of them have had such terrifying names like "Big 5 most dangerous...

Now I'm lying in the hammock and instead of sleeping, I'm reviewing the day. We started by boat from Leticia to Santa Sofia, during the ride we had to take off our rubber boots...

Kolumbien… wir wollten fast nicht gehen! So ein schönes Stückchen Erde! Unsere letzte Etappe hat uns an den Amazonas geführt, vorbei an gefühlt unendlichen Wasserfällen,...

After an eighteen-hour bus ride, we arrive in Chachapoyas at 6 am. Since the taxi driver didn't know the way to our hostel, we decided to walk to the hostel and quickly met...

Last night it rained and thundered. It was quite thunderous. Towards morning, the rain let up and we started in a small boat, heading towards Peru, or rather to the other side...

Imagine sitting on a night bus called Exclusiva, where you can recline the seats to 180°. Doesn't that sound like a dream night bus ride? Oh no, we soon realized that it wasn't....

We originally planned to stay for only four weeks. However, unnoticed, those four weeks turned into eight.... We are glad to have started our journey here, with David and his...

By bus from Màncora to Chiclayo. In Chiclayo, we had booked a hostel for the same night as we were supposed to arrive at 3:45 am. However, since the bus was delayed and left...

After 4 days in the big City Rio, we needed to go back to the Nature. What is better than the Amazon. We flyed to Manaus, in the middle of the Amazon. There we drove with a Boot...

Leticia, a small airport right on the Amazon. We got off the plane, walked across the runway, and there we were. I like airports like this. We went to get some money, had a...

Kuelap was a fortress and village of the Chachapoya culture, whose culture existed approximately from 900 to 1400 AD. The fortress sits high on a mountain, over 3000 meters...

After an adventurous journey, we finally reached the Ecuadorian-Peruvian border. There was something new for us there. The two countries were actually separated by a barrier and...

Slowly we made our way from the deep Amazon towards the Andes. Chachapoyas was our destination. A small town surrounded by high peaks that served as a vacation spot for...

Dear ones, I owe you the last adventures for a week now ... in the jungle we unfortunately had no reception, then we were knocked down by an infection and in the last few days...

Day two naturally started a bit later than scheduled - as always in Brazil ✌🏼 The jungle hike was a bit spoiled by heavy rain, but that's the risk during the rainy season ......

We have already demonstrated the incredible fish richness of the Amazon basin in Manaus and at our lodge. But we were also able to catch a small dinner from the water ourselves....

During a 2-hour jungle hike, we learn a lot about the use of trees and other plants by indigenous people. Some tribes still live completely cut off from the outside world in...

What worked neither in 2 hotels nor at 2 airports worked in the Amazon rainforest: transferring photos😂. From Salvador we fly with a stop in Fortaleza, where we are greeted by...

The last day of our Amazon adventure started very early - partly because the noise level increased significantly, and partly because there was already a slight rumbling in our...

Before heading into the Amazon rainforest, we will witness a special natural phenomenon: the meeting of the Rio Negro and the Rio Solimoes=Amazonas. We will drive to the boat...

Somewhere in nowhere! Surrounded by the Amazon and the rainforest, Leticia is located at the tri-border area of Peru, Brazil, and Colombia. It is so far inland that it is...

We use the only rainy day to visit a village with locals. In addition to the church, school, shop, and medical station, we are also allowed to look into private homes, where one...