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 Day 5 (August 29, 2025) Amazon

Before      This will be our third and final day in the Amazon. In the morning, we'll enjoy activities such as sailing by the river in search of birds and monkeys, visiting an indigenous village, or kayaking on our own.   After lunch, we'll leave the lodge and head to Iquitos, where we'll be taken to the airport with plenty of time for our flight at 7:40 PM. We'll arrive at night and stay at the same hotel in Lima where we left our luggage.

After   Another day with an unusual schedule. At 6:30 AM we have breakfast, and at 7:15 AM we have what will be our last exploration outing on the Amazon. We navigate the same area where we watched the sunset yesterday, watching different birds.   Suddenly, our guide Alberto, surprises us by saying, "We're going to look for anacondas." We remember that yesterday he told us about cases where an anaconda had jumped out of the water and dragged people out of boats. And also that the largest ones, 15 to 20 meters long, don't even need to do that because they can "shoot" huge balls of water with force and knock you off the boat. That adds a layer of tension to the next hour.   The place to look for these terrifying snakes is a new and spectacular landscape where the river is completely covered with floating plants and, at first glance, doesn't seem like a place where you could sail.   We see several birds and a few small caimans, but to see anacondas in this landscape, we would need them to come out of the water.   We turn around and head back, spotting a flock of macaws flying off in another direction. Some capuchin monkeys also appear, but we can't get a picture as they're hidden behind the first layer of vegetation.   We sail back to the lodge at a leisurely pace, savoring our last moments with the guide as he shares fascinating facts about the local nature. But before leaving, we have one last activity on our schedule: visiting the local community where most of the lodge staff, including Alberto, live..   We enter through a side entrance where they're building a second soccer field and continue on, observing the various structures, including one where they're applying tar to a newly constructed canoe.   Then we pass by the school and afterwards go to the bar for refreshments.  As use to happen, our final stop is at the local craft shops, where we make a few small purchases.   From here on out, we just have to follow the schedule: we leave the bungalow at 11:30 AM and lunch is at 11:40 AM, which is so early because we have to make room for those arriving later on the boats we're going to use to return. That's at 1:00 PM.  After the river trip, it's time for the longest journey, the road trip. We get into the vans and arrive in Iquitos around 4:00 PM.   We leave our things at the office and do some shopping, since it's raining. We're being taken to the airport at 7:00 PM, so we have time and spend the last hour having a drink at Casa Fierro, a historic building on the Plaza Mayor.   While I sip my piña colada and eat my camu camu cheesecake, we watch the square's lights change as night falls.   At 7 PM they took us to the small airport, where we got our boarding passes, went through security, and killed time until boarding, which started shortly before 9 PM. The plane take off on schedule, and once in Lima, we are eager to get to bed, as we hadn't been awake this late in Peru yet. The taxi drops us off at the hotel after midnight.   We'd been freezing because we were wearing clothes meant for the tropical heat of Iquitos, which didn't suit the cool Lima night. We book a taxi to the bus station for tomorrow while we check in and go practically straight to bed.