Amazon - Day 1

We got to Leticia at about 3 in the afternoon and checked in to our hotel, the Hotel Anaconda. Leticia’s a small city of about 37,000 inhabitants but is still the biggest town/city in the Colombian \ Brazilian \ Peruvian area of the Amazon.

The hotel was OK, but the room looked a little too much like a hospital for my liking.

We had Pirarucú (Arapaima gigas) for dinner which you could easily mistake for chicken, I know it sounds completely clichéd but it really was. I’ve just found out why it’s so meaty, it’s one of the world’s largest freshwater fish and can grow up to 3 or 4 metres in length!

After dinner we had a walk around town, nothing very interesting to report here except for the number of motorbikes and scooters there are, everyone has one which makes crossing the road a bit like a game of Frogger.