My apologies for the lull in entries, I guess you could say things have been a bit slow lately. We had a malaria scare with Cameron, my travel mate, but luckily they only diagnosed kidney infection. Phew! He´s doing good now though, so we plan to giddyup into the jungle at 7:30 tomorrow morning. Here´s a little summary of the pictures and generally what we´ve been doing. After Mancora and the beach, we bussed to Tarapoto where we caught a beaten down toyota truck to take to yurimaguas. The first picture was taken after I dropped my camera, that might be why it´s all off center, but we´re waiting in the bed for departure, which came an hour later and with about ten more people. Three of those people turned out to be thieves, and unlucky Cameron got 170 soles stolen, but that´s a long story. And the bad guys get away, so you probably don´t want to hear it. Once in Yurimaguas, it was all aboard the Eduardo III, sleeping in hammocks for two days on the Rio Marañon until we arrived in Iquitos, where we are now. The last three pictures are from today, we were planning on renting some mopeds to cruise around in, but we both missed the essential education of how to drive a manual moped, so we rented a canoe in the Belen market. Belen is a huge slum basically, and during the high tide season (which we missed by a few weeks), all the houses and stores are floating, like a poor man´s venice. So today, most of it was on stilts, but there were houses that float year round that we passed by on our way home. we decided to just paddle all the way home, so there´s me paddling upstream at the junction with the amazon. it started to rain, but the sunset still had a eerie coolness hidden behind clouds and trees. So as I said, I dropped my camera, and most pictures turn out a little blurry now, but Cameron broke his too, so we might just buy a new one to share, in which case you´ll be able to enjoy the wonders of the jungle in full enchanting clarity. Until then..