Iquitos!

So we wandered around Lima yesterday, accidentally running into a vegetarian restaurant. There is another one we missed that we can hit on the way back. Then last night we landed in Iquitos, Peru, in las Amazonas. It is a really safe town, the worst that could happen is that you get cheated a bit. But you would never get robbed outright, so I would say it is safer than home. They have coca leaf as a medicinal herb. If you want the alertness effect, you have to take it with something like baking soda to release. And then it is like coffee, without the jitters.

They have different words for simple things like aguacate/avocado (something that starts with a p, I forgot). My Spanish is not so great here, like it was a t work. But I can get by. I love it. And it is HOT. In Lima it is Winter, but here it is always hot.