last week i went on a boat trip on what is the biggest river in south america, the Amazon. If there was one word to describe the Amazon, it would have to be BIG. noo..wait..wiiiiiiiiddeeeee. Yes, at times the river looked like it could be a lake, and that´s not all....it´s not even flood season.
The reason we went was for this rice project where were getting some rice form the rice fields along the amazon and selling it back in iquitos so we can make some money for People of Peru. We loaded about 14 tones of rice on the People of Peru boat and each bag was about 50 kilos! it was relaly heavy, and amazing when i saw men half my size lift it above their shoulders. Aside from loading rice on the boat, we got to just relax on our hammocks on the deck and soak in our nice books. I read the Ted Dekker series of the Circle, which is a good series. We left 4 Am in the morning of Tuesday and came back Thursdday.
We saw some fish jump out in the river and some dolphins on the last night during sunset. By the way, i got some really nice shots of sunrise and sunsets on the amazon river. We hit one setback though while on our ways to the rice fields, we hit a sand bank and got stuck in the middle of the Amazon. This was because the waters at some places were pretty shallow because it´s a little dried up and not flood season, so we all had to get off the boat and push. Good thing it wasn´t on our way back when we had 14 tones of rice. Cruising on the amazon river intot he jungles was quite the experience. You can take a look at some pictures of the rice fields, the amazon river, and our boat at my albums of Amazon River Cruise.
