Colombia / Brazil / Peru triborder in Amazonas – Peru

Amazonas Peru 🇵🇪

We walked from Brasil and briefly through Columbia and then sailed to Peru this morning. All in the Amazon. How I love to be able to say that 😂

We sailed to the very centre of the triborder in the river and then crossed to Peru and sailed west. After 1/2 hours sailing in a fast motorboat, we came to a house in the middle of the river, build for people to change boats as if it being a bus station. We continued, still in motorboat with room for 10, and finally arrived at a small harbour on the river bench. This was the entrance to Marasha Explorer. Then we hiked some hours to the lake where we were to stay.

Such a cool hike! We saw sloth 🦥 in the wild. Monkeys in the trees. Birds. Centipedes. Lizards. A bamboo rat mother and its little one in a huge bamboo – they were cute.

We got to swing in the lianas.

We got to eat termites 🐜 straight from their ‘house’. Place a finger in the middle. Eat and get protein. We also used the on our hands 🙌🏼 as a natural mosquito 🦟 repellent! Sustainable and Healthy- what’s not to like 😂

While being in the Peruvian part of the Amazon rainforest we enjoyed sailing kayak… my first time ever to the surprise of my daughters. I sailed canoes plenty and sailboats, but not kayak as far as I remember. Sooo it took a deep breath and then relief and a sense of pride came as it was of course fun.

We went around to explore nature and stopped with the biggest tree of the forrest with the amazing stem and canopy.

Fishing 🎣… caught just some tiny fish that we fed to the species of the biggest fish of the rainforest.

Hammocks are always a good idea !

I so enjoyed being in travel speed and focus with daughters and here also outside mobile coverage.

During darkness we looked for caimans. Picked up two small ones to see and set them out again. Their eyes light in the dark when using a flashlight 🔦 over the water and plants on the sides.

Late night a huge 5 meter long black caiman came to the place we stayed. Amazing creature to experience in the wild this close.

This tiny lake was inhabited by caimans, piranhas, anacondas and electric eals… just to mention the most known and feared. Then the biggest fish that can become 3 meters. And all the tiny creatures, including the mosquitoes 🦟, cockroaches 🪳, ants 🐜 and spiders 🕷️

Eating the biggest fish, fried plantains, potato pancakes, chicken, rice with beans, bananas, papaya, pineapple, and having A wonderful supply of coffee and WARM milk for it. I like the coffee and this detail so much.

The red parrot here likes the food as much as us. It climbed descreetely up to breakfast buffet and started with the scrambled eggs and moved its way down to pineapple and is even able to drink from our cup of limonade.

Not to miss anything we have been listening a lot. The small room was a wooden shed with mosquito nets rather than Windows. It made the temperature perfect and allowed the sounds of the rainforest in.

At five am we were up and in a row boat on our small lake to listen to the sounds of monkeys, birds and bamboo rats and to see dark give way for light.

Sailing the canals show how much work it takes to keep a road or a canal free in the rainforrest that seen to be crowing as we look att it.