Made it to the rain forest!

Finally made it here, and you know what? It's all right, in fact it's lovely! Barbara Milchak, you were right all along, you knew I'd love it! For some reason I thouight it would be dark, covering up the sky, but there is plenty of sky!  O frabjus day!

I took one more picture after I wrote last evening, though I'd included it but apparently not. If, by chance I did, you can't be reminded too much--

The perfect way to end a day--pisco sour and a great book!

Noww for today: Up at 6:00, bags out, breakfast, bus at 7:15, drive to airport, check in (that was looong), wait, wait and wait (flight was late), then flight to Iquitos! We were met by Roberto in a 16 passenger bus and driven through the edge of the city, which is quite old. There are tens of thousands of these moto-taxis, front a motorcycle, rear for passengers. Here you can see for yourselves:

They are somewhat larger than the tuk-tuks we saw the other day.

The markets open every day but close around 2:00 when we were passing through. Still there were plenty:

A few buildings have Portuguese tiles from long ago:

Looking down the streets toward the river, remember this is the edge of the old city:

Then off in our speedboat-goodness, did we fly! Sttill it took a long time to get here. When we left Iquitos, the river and rainforest looked like this:

That little strip of forest is very tall,, but the river is very wide!

Now at the lodge, here is the forest. The presence of the sky is a great comfort to me:

covered walkway, my building on the left.

What are these? Maybe I'll find out tomorrow.

It's very dense away from the lodge's clearing.

So that's all folks, I've got a pisco sour waiting for me!  We going for a walk in the dark later, I'll tell you about it, but don't count on pictures.

Whew! What a relief! I'm finally here and it's great!