Travelling Peru's Rivers By Boat

On the eastern side of the Peruvian Andes, in the sweaty tropical jungles of the Amazon basin, slow moving, turgid waterways form the roads. Three decked cargo boats ferry people and goods between towns and isolated farms cut into the impenetrable forest.
While the hold of the boat is stocked with every thing from steel girders to refrigerators to bags of cement to motor scooters, the passengers while away the hours sleeping and swinging in hammocks. Though three meals a day are provided in the ticket price, entertainment is scarce. Few Peruvians read and many spend the hot, humid hours sleeping or watching the jungle slide silently by from bow to stern. The monotony is occasionally broken when the flat bow is driven on to the red earthed banks and cargo is unloaded. Occasionally the boat will pass one of the other ferries plying the routes between distant villages and towns and the passengers will call to one another as they hang from railings and windows. The pictures presented here are of two boat journeys in Peru. One was a four days from Pucallpa in central Peru to Iquitos (the largest city in world inaccessible by road) along the busy Rio Ucayali. The other was six days from Iquitos, along the Rio Napo, to the remote, military border town of Pantoja, close to Ecuador. The boats on this route are few and are between and passengers often hang their hammocks three deep.

On the eastern side of the Peruvian Andes, in the sweaty tropical jungles of the Amazon basin, slow moving, turgid waterways form the roads. Three decked cargo boats ferry people and goods between towns and isolated farms cut into the impenetrable forest.
While the hold of the boat is stocked with every thing from steel girders to refrigerators to bags of cement to motor scooters, the passengers while away the hours sleeping and swinging in hammocks. Though three meals a day are provided in the ticket price, entertainment is scarce. Few Peruvians read and many spend the hot, humid hours sleeping or watching the jungle slide silently by from bow to stern. The monotony is occasionally broken when the flat bow is driven on to the red earthed banks and cargo is unloaded. Occasionally the boat will pass one of the other ferries plying the routes between distant villages and towns and the passengers will call to one another as they hang from railings and windows. The pictures presented here are of two boat journeys in Peru. One was a four days from Pucallpa in central Peru to Iquitos (the largest city in world inaccessible by road) along the busy Rio Ucayali. The other was six days from Iquitos, along the Rio Napo, to the remote, military border town of Pantoja, close to Ecuador. The boats on this route are few and are between and passengers often hang their hammocks three deep.

On the eastern side of the Peruvian Andes, in the sweaty tropical jungles of the Amazon basin, slow moving, turgid waterways form the roads. Three decked cargo boats ferry people and goods between towns and isolated farms cut into the impenetrable forest.
While the hold of the boat is stocked with every thing from steel girders to refrigerators to bags of cement to motor scooters, the passengers while away the hours sleeping and swinging in hammocks. Though three meals a day are provided in the ticket price, entertainment is scarce. Few Peruvians read and many spend the hot, humid hours sleeping or watching the jungle slide silently by from bow to stern. The monotony is occasionally broken when the flat bow is driven on to the red earthed banks and cargo is unloaded. Occasionally the boat will pass one of the other ferries plying the routes between distant villages and towns and the passengers will call to one another as they hang from railings and windows. The pictures presented here are of two boat journeys in Peru. One was a four days from Pucallpa in central Peru to Iquitos (the largest city in world inaccessible by road) along the busy Rio Ucayali. The other was six days from Iquitos, along the Rio Napo, to the remote, military border town of Pantoja, close to Ecuador. The boats on this route are few and are between and passengers often hang their hammocks three deep.

On the eastern side of the Peruvian Andes, in the sweaty tropical jungles of the Amazon basin, slow moving, turgid waterways form the roads. Three decked cargo boats ferry people and goods between towns and isolated farms cut into the impenetrable forest.
While the hold of the boat is stocked with every thing from steel girders to refrigerators to bags of cement to motor scooters, the passengers while away the hours sleeping and swinging in hammocks. Though three meals a day are provided in the ticket price, entertainment is scarce. Few Peruvians read and many spend the hot, humid hours sleeping or watching the jungle slide silently by from bow to stern. The monotony is occasionally broken when the flat bow is driven on to the red earthed banks and cargo is unloaded. Occasionally the boat will pass one of the other ferries plying the routes between distant villages and towns and the passengers will call to one another as they hang from railings and windows. The pictures presented here are of two boat journeys in Peru. One was a four days from Pucallpa in central Peru to Iquitos (the largest city in world inaccessible by road) along the busy Rio Ucayali. The other was six days from Iquitos, along the Rio Napo, to the remote, military border town of Pantoja, close to Ecuador. The boats on this route are few and are between and passengers often hang their hammocks three deep.

On the eastern side of the Peruvian Andes, in the sweaty tropical jungles of the Amazon basin, slow moving, turgid waterways form the roads. Three decked cargo boats ferry people and goods between towns and isolated farms cut into the impenetrable forest.
While the hold of the boat is stocked with every thing from steel girders to refrigerators to bags of cement to motor scooters, the passengers while away the hours sleeping and swinging in hammocks. Though three meals a day are provided in the ticket price, entertainment is scarce. Few Peruvians read and many spend the hot, humid hours sleeping or watching the jungle slide silently by from bow to stern. The monotony is occasionally broken when the flat bow is driven on to the red earthed banks and cargo is unloaded. Occasionally the boat will pass one of the other ferries plying the routes between distant villages and towns and the passengers will call to one another as they hang from railings and windows. The pictures presented here are of two boat journeys in Peru. One was a four days from Pucallpa in central Peru to Iquitos (the largest city in world inaccessible by road) along the busy Rio Ucayali. The other was six days from Iquitos, along the Rio Napo, to the remote, military border town of Pantoja, close to Ecuador. The boats on this route are few and are between and passengers often hang their hammocks three deep.

On the eastern side of the Peruvian Andes, in the sweaty tropical jungles of the Amazon basin, slow moving, turgid waterways form the roads. Three decked cargo boats ferry people and goods between towns and isolated farms cut into the impenetrable forest.
While the hold of the boat is stocked with every thing from steel girders to refrigerators to bags of cement to motor scooters, the passengers while away the hours sleeping and swinging in hammocks. Though three meals a day are provided in the ticket price, entertainment is scarce. Few Peruvians read and many spend the hot, humid hours sleeping or watching the jungle slide silently by from bow to stern. The monotony is occasionally broken when the flat bow is driven on to the red earthed banks and cargo is unloaded. Occasionally the boat will pass one of the other ferries plying the routes between distant villages and towns and the passengers will call to one another as they hang from railings and windows. The pictures presented here are of two boat journeys in Peru. One was a four days from Pucallpa in central Peru to Iquitos (the largest city in world inaccessible by road) along the busy Rio Ucayali. The other was six days from Iquitos, along the Rio Napo, to the remote, military border town of Pantoja, close to Ecuador. The boats on this route are few and are between and passengers often hang their hammocks three deep.

On the eastern side of the Peruvian Andes, in the sweaty tropical jungles of the Amazon basin, slow moving, turgid waterways form the roads. Three decked cargo boats ferry people and goods between towns and isolated farms cut into the impenetrable forest.
While the hold of the boat is stocked with every thing from steel girders to refrigerators to bags of cement to motor scooters, the passengers while away the hours sleeping and swinging in hammocks. Though three meals a day are provided in the ticket price, entertainment is scarce. Few Peruvians read and many spend the hot, humid hours sleeping or watching the jungle slide silently by from bow to stern. The monotony is occasionally broken when the flat bow is driven on to the red earthed banks and cargo is unloaded. Occasionally the boat will pass one of the other ferries plying the routes between distant villages and towns and the passengers will call to one another as they hang from railings and windows. The pictures presented here are of two boat journeys in Peru. One was a four days from Pucallpa in central Peru to Iquitos (the largest city in world inaccessible by road) along the busy Rio Ucayali. The other was six days from Iquitos, along the Rio Napo, to the remote, military border town of Pantoja, close to Ecuador. The boats on this route are few and are between and passengers often hang their hammocks three deep.

On the eastern side of the Peruvian Andes, in the sweaty tropical jungles of the Amazon basin, slow moving, turgid waterways form the roads. Three decked cargo boats ferry people and goods between towns and isolated farms cut into the impenetrable forest.
While the hold of the boat is stocked with every thing from steel girders to refrigerators to bags of cement to motor scooters, the passengers while away the hours sleeping and swinging in hammocks. Though three meals a day are provided in the ticket price, entertainment is scarce. Few Peruvians read and many spend the hot, humid hours sleeping or watching the jungle slide silently by from bow to stern. The monotony is occasionally broken when the flat bow is driven on to the red earthed banks and cargo is unloaded. Occasionally the boat will pass one of the other ferries plying the routes between distant villages and towns and the passengers will call to one another as they hang from railings and windows. The pictures presented here are of two boat journeys in Peru. One was a four days from Pucallpa in central Peru to Iquitos (the largest city in world inaccessible by road) along the busy Rio Ucayali. The other was six days from Iquitos, along the Rio Napo, to the remote, military border town of Pantoja, close to Ecuador. The boats on this route are few and are between and passengers often hang their hammocks three deep.