Peru (Amazonia)

Delfin II

Shopping For Lunch Ingredients: Lima, Peru

Inside the Farmer's Market on a food tour.

Limes For Pisco Sour. Lima, Peru

Farmer's Market.

Need a Chicken?

Farmer's Market. Lima, Peru

Fresh Fish For Sale. Lima, Peru

Farmer's Market.

Aaron, Our Food Tour Guide. Lima, Peru

Making the Peruvian (& Chilean) national drink...Pisco Sour. 1/3 Lime juice, 1/3 pisco, & some other stuff.

Making Ceviche`: Lima, Peru

Danmar, our food tour guide's mother, working in her kitchen.

Cooking Lunch For Us. Lima, Peru

Aaron, our food tour guide & Danmar, his mother, in their home kitchen.

Lunch Is Almost Ready. Lima, Peru

Danmar, Aaron's mother, preparing lomo saltado in her home. Lunch was very good.

Aaron, Our "Pisco Sour Expert" Making Drinks For Us.

Note: All Peruvians consider themselves experts at making the national drink. Aaron is.

Stuffed Avocado. Freshly prepared & ready to eat. Lima, Peru

Lunch Is On The Table. Lima, Peru

Lomo Saltado (beef with tomato & onion) , Ceviche`, & avocado stuffed with freshly-made mayonnaise & vegetables. We ate well.

Dennis, One of Our Three Peruvian Naturalists

Dennis was an encyclopedia of knowledge about Peru & the Amazonia Region.

Floating Restaurant: Iquitos, Peru

After flying from Lima to Iquitos, we took a ferry (I think the name of the ferry, was "I Hope You Can Swim") to a floating restaurant for lunch.

Our Cabin On The Delfin II Riverboat

Then we took a bus to Nauta, where we boarded the Delphin II. Our comfortable "home" for the next week, Note the huge picture window. We never tired of the view.

Another Photo Of Our Delfin II Cabin

One Of Three Skiffs On The Delfin II

Each day, we did between one & three river explorations in a skiff like this. Each had two, 60 horsepower outboard motors.

White Bird

We saw many of these white, heron-looking birds, standing along the river banks.

Local River People Fishing

About 30,000 people are resident along the Peruvian fresh-water rivers, East of the Andes. They live a hard, subsistence, life.

Skiff Almost Hidden Among River Grasses

The skiff driver or the naturalist has spotted a bird high in a tree. Now all will soon scramble to see it.

Cruising Along In a Skiff

Water behind & to the side of the skiff is part of the boat's wake.

Is The Water Really Brown?

Yes! Similar color to our own Colorado River during run-off. There are two "seasons"..1) dry land beyond the normal river banks, & 2) the jungle flooded for miles beyond. We were in Amazonia during the flooded jungle phase. The area rivers pick up mud, sticks, logs & other debris.

What Is He Thinking?

What does he make of us...we who are sitting in a 120 horsepower skiff wearing expensive sunglases...while he is in a home-made canoe with his mom?

Behind That Fish is a Big Smile

River child proudly showing us the fish that he caught.