This is a Mototaxi it is basically a motorcycle with 2 wheels in the back which help to take 3 passangers on it. They charge very cheap to go everyhere in the city for one or 2 dollars you can go anywhere which in soles it would be 3 to 6.

Iquuitos Celebrating the Carnaval Festivities

Every single year is a tradition for every street in Iquitos to go get the highest palm tree from the jungle and bring it to the city to put it on the street with a bunch of gifts or presents like money, dishes diapers,etc and all of these are hanging on the tree. Then on Sunday afternoon the 15. People have like a little ritual where they dance around the tree with an axe that every round that they have one person cuts it until is about to fall down. Then after a few cuts the tree falls down and a bunch of people comes to get the stuffs on the tree. They fight for it.

In one of pistures on top shows some people with masks. Thsese people dress up like this for midtnight. they go in every tree to dance for a few minutes and then they leave. it is a tradition to do it.

This was my tired face

I was very tired when we arrived to Lima Peru and then we had to fly to Iquitos City. Total hours travelled from Salt Lake City to Iquitos Peru 20 hours. We made it and that was the most important thing.

Iquitos a Marvelous city

In Iquitos we have one 5 star hotel which is in downtown by the Plaza de Armas. Around this area there are some restaurants and also pizza. we have Aris Burguers which they sell american humburguers and also typical food from the area. Also next to it there is a restaurant called el pollon which is a chicken> they sell basically everything with chicken. It is very cheap to go around the city with only 2 to 3 soles you can go anywhere in the city which is one dollar.

My City of Iquitos in Peru

Let me explained to you a little bit about my city. Iquitos is a city that is located it in the north part of Peru by the Amazon River. Iquitos is basically an Island, there are 3 rivers that surrounded it which are the Amazon, Nanay and Itaya river. Iquitos does not have any other connections with other cities so people have to fly or go by boat to the other cities, if you fly to go to Lima it will be hour and a half and if you go by boat will take you a week to get to the Lima capital, it is 4 to 5 days in boat and then a day in bus to get there to lima. Most of the people go by boat because it is very expensive to fly. Flying cost around 120 dollars per person and then by boat it only 40 dollars, this is why people like to go by boat. If you go by the river you will see a lot of small villages and most of the villeges have not electricity, clinics or very good schools but they still go to school and learn what they can. People down the villleges on the Amazon they work on the fields all day long planting rice, vegatbles, bananas. Also they go fishing and hunt for a living. They are very nice people.
Besides that there are a lot of vegetations, everything is green and you can find a lot of places to visit. you can go ot the lodges on the amazon river which they took you to see things in the jungle, also they take you to go fishing piranas and some other amazing stuff like swimming in the Amazon river. When I did it, it was way cool yopu can feel the little fishes touching y0u while you are in the water. Also pink dalphins will come to jump. It is a cool experience. You will love it if you go downthere. Last Month on February 2010 went back home in Iquitos after a couple years. My trip was great. I was able to be with family and also a little bit with friends. Iquitos is changing for the better. The airport is being remodeled. It was very hot around 100 Fahrenheit. In most of the houses there are not air condition as we have here in the States.
Iquitos has a population about half million people. People are very friendly there, when they see a foreigner walking on the street, they will come to talk to you to be your friend. Most of the jobs that people do over there are self sufficient jobs for example they sell stuff on the market. They could sell anything on the Belen Market. Also there are a lot of Mototaxis which is basically a tricycle. A few years when i left my city for the first time there was 1000 Mototaxis and now there are over 20,000 and the reason why is that is because that is the most easy jobs that they can do becasue is very hard to get a job.
Tourism is another thing that brings some income to the city.