Here are a few photos...on the way to the butterfly farm, at the butterfly farm with Jr., the monkey on my shoulder, this morning in Belen, the poorest area of Iquitos nicknamed "Venecia (ie Venice) de Peru" beacuse of the floating houses lifted up on stilts and the ´river canals´ie: when the river is high it covers the roads and streets, but the river is pretty low at the moment. We also went to the market in Belen this morning, which is huge and has anything and everything you never wanted to buy in an open air market. Watched a great surgery on Friday where a 8 cm tumor was removed from outside an man´s orbital cavity, and it had alreay eaten away his eye. It had been growing for at least 8 months or so, and he lives in the jungle, some 2 or 3 weeks away from Iquitos by regular boat. Stuff you would never see in the states, so it´s quite interesting.
Here are a few photos...on the way to the butterfly farm, at the butterfly farm with Jr., the monkey on my shoulder, this morning in Belen, the poorest area of Iquitos nicknamed "Venecia (ie Venice) de Peru" beacuse of the floating houses lifted up on stilts and the ´river canals´ie: when the river is high it covers the roads and streets, but the river is pretty low at the moment. We also went to the market in Belen this morning, which is huge and has anything and everything you never wanted to buy in an open air market. Watched a great surgery on Friday where a 8 cm tumor was removed from outside an man´s orbital cavity, and it had alreay eaten away his eye. It had been growing for at least 8 months or so, and he lives in the jungle, some 2 or 3 weeks away from Iquitos by regular boat. Stuff you would never see in the states, so it´s quite interesting.
2 comments:
The picture of you and Jr. is just so YOU!!!! I love it. It's my new screensaver.
Love,
Mom
Jill and a monkey. ha! kind of makes our zoo trip seem silly :)
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