We officially arrived in Peru for the first time today, we actually had already been into Peru when we visited the Amazon but it's not so easy to get your passport stamped there. We spent over a month in Ecuador and again we enjoyed our stay there, for me it's not quite as good a place to travel as Colombia but that's largely due to it being considerably smaller and therefore the huge variety of geography etc in Colombia can't be matched. It would have been nice ...

For what seemed like the 20th day in a row we were up before 7 on Saturday morning to meet our Guide (Antonio) and the 2 Israeli guys and two Canadians we were off on our jungle tour with. We would probably normally avoid these types of tours but given we´re in the middle of the jungle we didn´t really have much choice. In the morning we travelled up the Amazon itself which is truly vast (10kms across and we´re 3,000 kms from the Atlantic) and visted Isla Mic...