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Preparation, Preparation, Preparation The Final Countdown El Mercado Mira Flores La Selva Chipaota The First Leg: Chasuta to Yurimaguas Pacaya Samiria Reserve The way to Iquitos to Leticia The Slow Boat to Manaus Difficult Questions

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2009 Trans-Amazon Expedition

El Mercado Mira Flores

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Sep 15 2009, 08:17 PM

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Lima, Peru

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Lima is a strange place. It´s alive in the dirty, gritty kind of way that big cities are alive. The sidewalks are slick with rain and dirt and the people always look like they have someplace to go, even when standing still. All of this is not to say that it isn´t beautiful. In truth, Lima has the kind of honest beauty that I´ve only seen in South America; it´s the kind of beauty that is found in things earnestly at work in the way they were meant to be. We are only in Lima for a couple of days and we wanted to get know the people and the culture as quickly as possible, so we went to the market. You can tell a lot about people by how they eat and it´s no exception in Lima. The market was alive with vendors in stalls of every kind. It was a sprawling indoor city of winding aisles that wandered through stalls piled high with fresh fruit and vegetables, dried goods, beef, llama, chicken-- anything you could ever think of. It´s life as usual for the vendors, but to us it was exotic and intoxicating. Needless to say, everyone found it quite amusing when Tim started taking pictures of the food, and were even more delighted to have their own picture taken. Butchers held up their knives and mothers held up their children all for the chance to be captured by the bespectacled ¨fotografo americano.¨ We leave the smell of smog for the smell of rain in the morning. Tomorrow we will be in Tarapoto.

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	11. Difficult Questions Jan 26 2010, 03:26 PMSanta Fe, United States, New Mexico10 photos When people from home ask me about people from the river, I always tell them about the teacher's wife. We had been staying in Chipaota for the better half of a week, living and working with the men and women of the community and trying as best we could to assimilate ourselves...

	10. The Slow Boat to Manaus Nov 29 2009, 09:39 PMManaus, Brazil14 photos We had made it to Leticia, the end of our paddling leg, but we still had a long way to go to get to Manaus. Leticia is a Columbian town situated on the tri-border of Peru, Columbia and Brazil. As soon as we set foot on the banks of Leticia and climbed the wooden steps that led to the central...

	9. to Leticia Nov 17 2009, 09:21 PMLeticia, Colombia37 photos Paddling the final few meters into Porta Masusa in Iquitos was like stepping into another world. We rounded a bend in the river out of the ether a mass of lights and urban sprawl lay ahead of us. We spent four days surrounded by the concrete and grime of this lost city dropped in the middle of the...

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