At 8 am, we boarded a slow boat back to Yurimaguas. Jefe did not come with us this time, he was apparently helping the police to stop poachers (!) and couldn’t make it. The boat was traveling against the current this time, so we spent a pleasant lazy 22 hours in hammocks watching the river go by, and the sun set, and the moon rise, and the flat front of the boat glide like a flying carpet under the stars. Our fellow passengers were people,and chickens, and one rabbit.

I saw two dolphins as we got underway. One gray dolphin, and one bufeo.

We got into Yurimaguas at around 6 am. We showered at a hotel, then caught a collectivo back to Tarapoto. We flew back to Lima, where we were to spend two days, and then return to San Francisco.

– The Private Eye