I'm In the Jungle!

Where to start?  I know I mentioned Iquitos but it is one of the more interesting cities I've seen.  One of the guides said the town has more than 50,000 motor taxis (basically tuk-tuks).  Gambling is also legal and there are discotheques.  Yes, discotheques complete with flashing lights and balloons and stuff.  Anyway, it's a very interesting place, but the Tahuayo Lodge is "chanatre".  That is supposed to be Spanish for really cool, awesome, splendid. . . You get it, but I may have misspelled it.  It's just amazing here.  We took a covered sort of ferry boat about two hours up the Amazon river which is enormously incredible, stopped in a little village called Esperanza where there were nice people and a band playing.  Then another two hours on the Tahuayo river to get here.  Already, I've seen and in some cases photographed, pygmy marmosets, squirrel monkeys, parrots and other birds of the jungle (I can't remember all their names).  It's beginning to get dark and I'm looking forward to the night sounds.  What a place! Oh, and the people are really nice too!  Today I met Cindy and Luke from Las Vegas and Ellis and Sara from Alberta.  Each of us has their own guide and mine is Jonathan who is 21 and a really knowledgeable person - and he makes monkey calls which is why I saw so many monkeys today.  Tonight we took a boat up river and looked for wildlife.  We saw Tahuayo birds which are called that because their call sounds like they're saying Tahuayo.  They glow in the dark!  There were fireflies and a caiman and some kind of night heron and we turned off our headlamps while floating in the river and listened to jungle sounds and looked at the stars and the river - magical!

Sorry - No pictures today, but some later.