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.