Colombia / Brazil / Peru in Amazonas – triborder

🇨🇴 🇧🇷 🇵🇪 Triborder in Amazonas – Colombia, Brazil and Peru. How cool is that. We have been on a boat on the river where the triborder is and almost caught it in the NomadMania app 😉 We had the most fun and unauthorized border crossings – Brazil to Peru we walked the way in the pictures here of small pathways between peoples houses and never saw even a sign. We followed on maps.me of course. Colombia- Brazil, we just followed the road under a sign. Peru – Colombia we crossed sailing the river. 🩵🇨🇴 🇧🇷 🇵🇪

In the small town of Leticia in the rainforrest, we can cross the border between Colombia and Brazil just like that. No control. Just a big sign across the street 🙂 Peru is just at the other side of the amazon river.

The strange borders have a history, as always. The Colombian border we’re north along the river that would have given a straight border. Tribes from Brazil and Peru came into Colombia for hunting.

Colombia started a war to get this area to protect its own population north, and then also get access to the river system.

Today they all three have this access and the Colombian part is the one with the most likely city, the most resorts in the rainforrest, and most flights in the airport.

I could not find any hotels on booking.com etc in neither the Brazilian nor the Peruvian parts.

Finally three hotels seemed to be in the Brazilian city of Tabatinga. No one answered for days. When we found them, they were clean and with good breakfast, though more for Navy / defence than travelers.

In Peru only one place appealet to cross the amazon river and stay in the Peruvian part of the amazon. The Marasha Explorer. No English at all, so I got good at Google translate, but where there is a will there is a way, an we managed to find each other at the harbour without knowing each other, with no photos and no internet. 🛜

Quite a lot of military in the Brazilian part of the triborder – a community of 6.000 incl. families with their own schools and an airport with maybe one flight a day.

Independent travel – no fixers or friends. Sweetest people though.

Note all the NomadMania maps and the three regions here 🍀