11th November 2006 - Ways to travel

So, I love to travel.
By boat and plane.
Not by bus.
I have done all three in the past few days and the first two top the lot.

The flight from Iquitos to Lima was beautiful. We took off at 5:30pm as the sun was setting, casting pastel colours on to the clouds. Then, as we flew over the vast Amazon, the river appear as a stream of liquid gold slinking it's way around the trees to the indefinite horizon.

Also, I saw a proper Ox Bow Lake. One of those things you hear about in geography but rarely see in England. This was rather impressive. See? I did learn something, Miss Slater!

Oh yeah, and I threw up after 20 hours on a bus from Lima to Arequipa.
It was impressive enough that we covered the whole length of the country in 24 hours!