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Travetling to Selva central of Peru
by sopaseca - last update: Feb 11, 2004 |
Lima / La Merced via Ticlio
The best overland route is from Lima-Ticlio-Huancayo (310 km) up the Central Highway, crossing the Andes through the high mountain pass of Anticona (Ticlio) which takes around five-and-a-half hours by car
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Ticlio / Huancayo or La Merced
Train from Lima to Huancayo
The train ride is really one of the best things you can do to enrich your Peru travel experience. The spectacular ride takes you from sea level over Ticlio pass, at 4,815 meters, one of Peru's highest passes. No train on earth reaches a higher point than the train from Lima to Huancayo. The line winds 346 kilometers through some breathtaking sections of the Andes. There are 26 stations, 61 bridges and 67 tunnels blasting a path through the mountains. It is known as one of the most beautiful train journeys in the world. But our destination was La Merced, the train Lima / Huancvayo is not leaving every Sunday please contact to your adgency
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Hunting Insects & Butterflies by night |
Arriving to La Merced
The market town of LA MERCED some 10km further down the attractive valley is larger and busier than San Ramon, with more than twelve thousand inhabitants, a thriving market, and several hectic restaurants and bars crowded around the Plaza de Armas. The Hostal Rey on Calle Junin ( $20-30 ) is the best place to stay , while the Hotel Mercedes, on Jiron Tarma ( $5 - 10 ) one and a half blocks from the plaza, is basic but friendly. we arrived by night and start the camping and fix all the material for hunting Butterflies and Insects by night
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Recolecting the Butterflies & Insects
on my last trip to the Selva Central of Peru with a small group of Biologist from Stonia I discovered that my Land is a nice country and it can be one of the best and nicer country if doesn't exist bad people on the govermment , who they are there only for stollen all our money and give them self a better quality of live, After we spent the night in La Merced and have been caught many insects and butterflies we go on our trip to Oxapampa enjoying the nice mountains until Pozuzo
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Insects hunted the last night |
As You can se we spent most of our time camping the whole night hunting the butterflies ans Insects around this area of La merced
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Camping and making grocery
then we travelled to Oxapampa,
Pretty well off the beaten track, some 78km by road north of La Merced, lies the small settlement of OXAPAMPA , dependent for its survival on timber and coffee. Most of the forest immediately around the town has been cleared for cattle grazing, coffee plantations and timber, and the indigenous Amuesha Indians , disgruntled at being pushed off their land, are battling hard on local, national and international levels for their land rights. Strongly influenced in architecture, blood and temperament by the nearby Germanic settlement of Pozuzo, this is actually quite a pleasant frontier town in its own way, with a surprisingly good place to stay , the Hotel El Rey ($10-20). However, visits to Oxapampa and Pozuzo are not recommended for tourists; the South American Explorers' Club in Lima should have the very latest on the situation, or contact your embassy.
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Oxapampa: In the Plaza de Armas visit the Iglesia de Santa Rosa, an interesting pink church made of wood, which apart from the material, has a different location than other churches in Peru. A corner from this church, in Av. San Martín, near Av. Mariscal Castilla and Av. Bolognesi, there is a typical and restored house. Other houses can be seen in the city but aren't as well preserved as it is. 5 km SW of Oxapampa, there is the town of Chontabamba, famous for its drink made from sugar-cain, the Huarapo. Visit the Hacienda Huarapo and ask for an explanation of how they do it. In the middle of the empty Plaza of Chontabamba there is a Christ sculpture made of fine wood. Near to it, you can go to the Tunqui Cueva, an underground small cave where you must climb up some stairs to enter it. A good option for having a dinner here is in the restaurant Recreo "El Ripio", which by the way has a poor and unattended minizoo with some typical animals of the area (ronsoco and sajino, for example).
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buyin fruit for camping into the jungle |
If you want to visit the Yanachaga-Chemillén National Park, take the Av. San Martín (the main one with separated lanes) and walk until the "Quebrada Alberto". From here start walking always by the right side for about 6.3km up and then you will reach the guardaparques station. They will help you with possibilities of trekking and wildlife watching. Is preferable to have a tent, good boots and sleeping bag. Is possible to visit the park from Pozuzo, check lines below.
But before to og ot this park must to buy foods
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Oxapampa
by sopaseca - last update: Feb 11, 2004  |
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Buying Bananna for our next camping |
We are Still in Oxapampa
This National Park is situated in the department of Pasco, province Oxampampa, districts of Oxapampa, Villarica, Huancabamba and Pouzo on a chain of mountains to the east of the Andes. It has a surface of 122,000 hectares.
One of its main attractive is the innumerable amount of mosses, brackens, archids, cans, bushes it has. We can also find the ulcumano ( Podocarpus rospigliossi and Podocarpus glomeratus ), the Diablo fuerte tree (Podocarpus oleifolrus and Podocarpus utilior ), cedar ( Cedrela lilloi and Cedrela mountain ), walnut tree ( Juglans neotropica ), oak tree ( Lauraceas ) among others.
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Base Camp for hunting butterflies |
Butterflies
Resembling small flowers that fly hurriedly and flirtatiously, in their distinctive evolutions, these attractive creatures don't seem to have a final destination. Colorful and fragile, they zigzag through the wind in the most varied of natural situations. In sum butterflies are -for many- the most attractive and beautiful insects on the planet.
Butterflies belong to the group of "lepidopterons" and are found in most environments, although they prefer warm, tropical regions. During their lifetime they undergo a series of changes, better known as metamorphosis, a phenomenon that also includes diet variations.
Recent investigations have demonstrated that in Peru there are more than 3,700 species of butterfly, in other words, 20 percent of all the butterflies that exist in the world.
Thanks to this impressive variety of species of butterflies, Ecuador occupies the sixth place in the world, and the second amongst tropical countries, while Bolivia, occupies seventh place with 39 species.
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Around this place there are not many people, so we met a nice farm woman who helped us with water and cooking for us ,so she killed her chickens, ducks and cooked them for us
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Camion crossing the river, bridge is broken out |
Oxapampa / Pozuzo
After a nice days in Oxapampa ,
we decided to departure to POZUZO , a weird combination of European rusticism and native Peruvian culture, is all that's left of a unique eighteenth-century project to open up the Amazon using European peasants as settlers. Some 80km down the valley from Oxapampa, along a very rough road that crosses over two dozen rivers and streams, its wooded chalets with sloping Tyrolean roofs have endured ever since the first Austrian and German colonists arrived in the 1850s. As part of the grand plan to establish settlements deep in the jungle - brainchild of President Ramon Castilla's economic adviser, a German aristocrat - eighty families left Europe in 1857; seven emigrants died at sea and six more were killed by an avalanche, which caused another fifty to turn back only 35km from here. Many of this unusual town's present inhabitants still speak German, eat schitellsuppe and dance the polka. The Hostal Tyrol ($20-30) and Hotel Maldonado ($5-10) are the best places to stay . Trucks for Pozuzo leave every couple of days from opposite the Hotel Bolivar in Oxapampa.
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STROLL BY THE GERMANY PASSAGE
In Prusia, Huacamayo, Dolphin and other districts of our Locality exist modern old wood houses and, with beautiful orchards and gardens.?The Germany Passage is one of the pretty and attractive streets but of Prusia- Pozuzo, to the tourists it enchants to occur a stroll to them and to take photos.?A great variety of flowers and plants exist: gold cap badges, glass, jazm?n, lilies, chavelita, begonias, trepadora rose, pink two-color pencil, jazm?n end, gorgeous, pink simple, achira, balsam apple, croto, bothers rose, monjita, rain of silver, choclito of gold, laurel, ishanca multicolor (hortiga), peruanita, zorrito, dalia, eternita, cactus, orqu?deas, bad mother, asterl?n, ear of elephant, fern, crest of rooster and others.?The typical houses and this beautiful passage, make seem us to a village town of the Tirol or Germany.
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on our trip from Oxapampa / Pozuzo we have to stop for a few hours one of hte bridge who take us to the other point and go on to ouor trip was broken, so most of the camion , cars and buses have to make a big line waiting for the chance to cross the river by Chatas, typical big canoes who make this kind of trip, then we goo n our reoute and so are the route its better to travel around this area up May until first week of December
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Celebration of Cruces (May) costumbrista Celebration that is made from the colonial time with participation of butlers and its elencos of dances of the districts San Cristóbal Uliachin, Rosary of Yanachaga, San Juan Pampas, Huancapucro, Paragsha, through presentations in important churches, seats and places that finally they compete in an aid organized by the Municipality. Ecoturístico Festival – Ruraltur Huayllay (September) Celebration of confraternidad of visitors and comuneros is made the first Saturday and Sunday of September in the National Sanctuary of the Stone Forest of Huayllay: presentations folkloric of all the region are made, accompanied by orchestras and bands, there is supply of plates and typical drinks on the basis of meat of alpaca and ovine; trout and products like maca, Pope, chuño, etc. also are made long walks and sports of adventure in the circuits of the Forest. Other important celebrations: Tourist and archaeological festival “Chaupihuaranga 2000”–Yanahuanca (May), Ecoturístico Festival Central Forest of Communities Nativas and Rich Turistas–Villa (Julio), Cattle Festival Ecoturístico–Pozuzo (October
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Typical dress Pozuzoz girls |
One characterizes by the music and dances of the old colonos German like payrisshpolka, vals German and mazurca (in Pozuzo). Between the traditional dances they emphasize the chonguinada one, auki dance, the negritos (Vicco and Shelvy) mulisa cerreña, prancing, the old ones, charicamay, changanacuy and Santiago. Between typical plates they are: the Charquián, pachamanca, the sharp one of guinea pig, the broth of head, the green broth, the trout, the frog, the stew, locro of olluco, tocosh and mazamorras of chuño white, caya and cahui. The traditional drinks are: ponche of maca, the pebble in a brick, chicha of jora, among others.
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Travelling to Tarapoto & Yurimaguas
by sopaseca - last update: Feb 11, 2004 |
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View of hte Tarapoto city |
Lima / Tarapoto
We traveled by bus form Lima to Tarapoto by bus, Located in the High Amazon Jungle of Northeastern Peru, Tarapoto is the center of the regions economic activity. With it´s easy access to the jungle, tropical climate, spectacular scenery, and fascinating indigenous cultures,Tarapoto has
much to offer visiting tourists.
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Tarapoto / Yurimaguas
The rolling hills up into the mountains are called the high jungle and the Tarapoto region is called "the land of waterfalls". The mountains on either side of Tarapoto rise to an average of 8000 feet above sea level and quite quickly too. Almost everyday at mid morning, huge cloud banks would roll in and stick at the base of the mountains, sometimes enveloping and hiding the mountain range completely. I saw many waterfalls during my travels up and over the mountains and they were spectacular (however some were hard to climb up)!
After spend three days in Trapoto we decide go on to Yurimaguas, we wnet there by mini van and taxis, there are any public bus on this route
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on route Tarapoto / Yurimaguas |
Tarapoto / Yurimaguas
From Tarapoto it's 140km north along pretty but rough jungle tracks to the frontier town of YURIMAGUAS . In the dry season you can do this journey by one of the frequent colectivos ($10) in about five or six hours, but from November to March it's more likely to take between eight and ten hours. Try and travel this route by day if possible, because there's less risk of being robbed or encountering trouble on the road. The bustling little market town of Yurimaguas has little to recommend it, other than its three ports , giving access to the Río Huallaga. The most important is the downriver port of La Boca , where all the larger boats leave from, including those to Iquitos. The port is located some fifteen to twenty minutes' walk from the town centre, or $1 in a motorcycle rickshaw. The second, middle port, known as Puerto Garcilaso , is closer to the heart of Yurimaguas and mainly used by farmers bringing their produce into town from the nearby farms in smaller boats. The third, upper port, called Puerto Malecón Shanuse , is used primarily by fishermen.
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Yurimaguas / Santa Rosa, Pacaya Samiria
in Yurimaguas we didn't spend so much time after two days we decide to go to Pacaya Samiria National Park, From here self leave man yship Cargo transortation to Iquitos and take aproximaletly 24 hrs to 36 hrs, You have to overnight in HAMMOCKS,
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Port of Yurimaguas
Form this port leave daily ship cargos to Iquitos, Pucalla, all the ship cargo stop in small vilages to pick up and leave passngers is fro that reason the trip take more than one days, buy food to eat on board becouse the food the people sell is not good and can be sick
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Sleeping on Board
Its inside one of the ship cargo to Iquitos with a stop on Santa Rosa if You wanna go to PACAYA SAMIRIA, to get a place and put your HAMMOCK ,we recomend You go earlier and put Your Hammock on the best place to view the Sunset, be carfull with your personal things, the other transportation are smaller and faster have to booked all the boat
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Another ship cargo to Iquitos |
Advice travelling by Cargo to Iqyuitos
Boats to Amazon One of the trips more exciting than can be made to the interior of our territory is to sail by waters of the great Amazon. To do it to the local style is, without a doubt, all one ventures. For it we recommended to reserve to a passage in some of the boats or boats that carry out this route every two days. The trip Yurimaguas-Iquitos, a luck of "caleteo" through colorful ribereños towns, takes two days and one night, and allows to soon cross waters of the Huallaga until its confluence with the Marañón and those of this one until being united to the Ucayaliy to form the Amazon. The service and the comforts in the boats are basic, in it is much of the "adventure". You will share the boat, an old transport of load turned boat for passengers, with 100 to 200 people and products of all type: soda waters, bananas, yucca, motorcycles and almost everything what can imagine. The boat offers services to him of expendio of foods (generally, fished fried with banana and yucca), drunk, a simple bath and hammocks to spend the night in the great cover. Music, from tecnocumbia to lambada, is guaranteed throughout all the route. It is possible to both reserve some of staterooms of the boat, although we suggested to him to only make it to keep its articles from value, since the heat to the interior is, simply, hallucinating
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Tipìcal Raft to Iquitos
This typical transportation are used fro joung people transportation fruits such as Cocos, bananas, they take them from Yurimaguas to Iquitos ( 03 days trip ) during the day are over it by night go down the basmment and sleep
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Travelling from Yurimaguas to Pacaya Samiria
by sopaseca - last update: Feb 13, 2004 |
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Ready to Departure to Lagunas ( Pacaya Samiria ) |
Yurimaguas to Lagunas ( Pacaya Samiria )
Here we are preparing all the equipment to departure to Pacaya Samiria in the village of Lagunas, the journey take 06 hours
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Sunset Yurimaguas ( Huallaga River ) |
a nice sunset on our arrival to Lagunas
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Here we are sailing by the river Yurimaguas ( Huallaga ), the trip its very slow and long so when we arrived there Lagunas it was by night we were looking for a camping place and nice people allowed us to camping at their farms, many mosquitos but was ok at the end it was only for one night
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Accommodating our luggage in the load mule |
Travelling to the CAMP BASE of Pacaya Samiria
At Lagunas, where we slept the last night was confortable and nice people the next day in the morning we remained surprised to see that there were not transortation from Lagunas Camp Base of the INRENA CONTROL
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