Landed in Satipo at 5am after an amazing trip via bus down into the jungle lowlands, through rock carved tunnels, past amazing waterfalls and watching the vegetation become more lush. Waited for a taxi to fill to our next stop Porto Ocopa for over an hour, then our 2 hour taxi ride took about 3. We were dropped at a tiny hamlet next to a river and found a hostel complete with mozzie net (thank goodness) and then explored the village for about 10 minutes (told you it was tiny). Played cards ‘til dark, then waited until 7pm when the generators got turned on and we got lights. No electricity in this town.
Laying in bed under our mozzie net we got to see our first firefly buzzing around flashing neon green, we watched it for a while until it flew over the wall into the next room. Oh yeah the walls don’t go the whole way up to save money and to help circulation and the windows are just holes in our walls.
