To get to San Martín we took the Rápido (a fast motorboat) from Leticia up the Amazon river. After two hours - at the" intersection" of the Amazon and the Amacayacu river - we jumped off the Rápido into the boat of Lorenzo, Josés brother, who came to pick us up. Right in this moment a bunch of pink river dolphins started playing around us - it was magical, it was like the dolphins were welcoming us to most amazing days of our journey in the middle of the amazonian rainforest.
Josés family was great and showed us around in the community, his grandma Doña Mercedes explained us how to weave a basket, his younger brother Robinson took us for a 8 hours day and night (!) walk through virgin rainforest and every day before sunset we watched the daily soccer game in front of the school house. If it wasn't for the already booked flight to Manaus and the mosquitos that were eating us alive I think we would have stayed!
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| House in San Martín de Amacayacu |
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| Traveling upstream with the Rápido |
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| Peru |
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| On the Amacayacu river with Lorenzo |
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| Daily soccer game in San Martín |
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| Better off with rubber boots! |
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| Learning how to weave a typical ticuna basket... |
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| ... from Doña Mercedes |
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| José and Doña Mercedes |
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| Teamwork |
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| Traditional Ticuna mask used in spiritual rituals |
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| Paddles |
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| Relaxing |
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| Speacial bamboo cane used for hunting with poisonous arrows |
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| Port of San Martín |
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| Rini, a little Ticuna sunshine |
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| Local catholic church - missionaries were busy in this part of the world... |
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| In the middle of the night in the somewhere in the rainforest |
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| Without Robinson we would probably still be there looking for the way back |
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| On a canoe tour with José |
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| Berries and a spear - what else do you need for fishing?! |
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| Never without my rubber boots! :) |
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| Paddling through the rainforest |
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| View of San Martín |