by Aucayacu | Mar 24, 2015 | Testimonials
A great, real Amazon experience! My girlfriend and I visited the Amazon with Ruber & his family in November. We had high expectations as it came highly recommended by some friends that had explored with Ruber and his family a year earlier. The tour was very well organised from picking us up at Iquitos airport & considering the remote location ran very smoothly up to dropping us back off a week later. Apparently Juan – Ruber’s father is the chief organiser & previously ran the tours himself. Only Ruber speaks English and I wish we could have spoken a bit more Spanish when we visited to chat with George & Juan as both seemed like great characters! The journey to the family home in their little village took 24 hours by cargo boat and then small canoe (an interesting experience with our big backpacks!) The reason it takes so long as we were not just going to the tourist camps on the edges of the Amazon we were going somewhere remote and beautiful! Our accommodation was more than comfortable in the cabins at the jungle home. We ate very fresh and tasty food that Juan’s wife Ladi would cook every morning and night. We normally did 2 or 3 different excursions a day including: – successful pirhana fishing! – day and night boat trips where we saw and got to play with. – sloths, snakes, caymans, monkeys, dolphins and heaps of interesting bird varieties – overnight camping with mosquito proof hammocks along the river – hiking to see lillypads, medicinal plants and native fruits – visit to...
by Aucayacu | Nov 15, 2013 | Photos, Testimonials
by Daniel Australia 08/06/2013 We recently went on a trip to the jungle with Ruber. It was an unforgettable journey, and a definite highlight of our trip to South America. Landing in Iquitos, we got beautiful views of jungle tributaries from within the aircraft cabin during our descent. We met Ruber outside the tiny complex, where a motokar (a motorised rickshaw) was waiting for us. Ruber, my girlfriend Véra, and I all jumped in with our two massive suitcases stuffed in the back, and set off. Zooming through Iquitos in the open seat of a motokar was the perfect introduction to our trip; it gave us an eye-opening cross section of the jungle, the colonial architecture, the colourful streets, and the hustle-bustle madness that makes up this charming river city. We arrived at the port, and a single man took both our suitcases down a narrow, rickety, wooden staircase to the triple-decked river barge that was waiting at the bottom. Ruber ushered us into the boat, and showed us to our cabin. On deck we met various members of Ruber’s large family, including his father, don Juan, and don Juan’s wife, Lady, who were to take excellent care of us over the course of our trip. We set off to Genaro Herrera soon after. The size of the Amazon river is truly awesome, and it was wonderful to drink in the scenery from our seats in the boat. It was also handy that we speak a bit of Spanish, as this allowed us to get to know the rest of his family a bit better. After nightfall we retired...
by Aucayacu | Mar 24, 2011 | Photos, Testimonials
When I first met Ruber at the airport, I was worried that the organization of the trip would be a bit chaotic, but this impression appeared to be wrong because from the day we went to the port to take the boat, I understood that everything was going to be very well handled and taken care of. Man, the port was already a cultural surprise, seeing this huge, steep slope leading to the boat and the locals carrying live animals and motorcycles on their back, carefully watching their step, while we were watching from our plastic chairs on the boat and being offered batteries, 40 sorts of food, toilet paper, magazines from the local vendors … and I’m forgetting the odd thing. Besides watching the human traffic going in and out, we kept chatting with Ruber and met the super friendly Sidaly and one of her nieces and got to know each other. Ruber briefed us for the expedition and told us we would walk around the camp because with only 5 days of forest, you can’t go far away. After what seemed like an hour and half, the boat finally left and we started to be really excited yet tired because we hadn’t slept the night before due to our last ayahuasca ceremony with Percy. So we went inside our cabin and slept a few hours, woke up to the sound of Ruber knocking on the door with plates of fried chicken and fried potatoes, which were more than welcome after the hardcore diet we had at Percy’s center. Ok, I’m being all dramatic about the diet, could...
by Aucayacu | Mar 23, 2011 | Testimonials
My trip to Peru was fantastic – a royal adventure, even dangerous at times. Fortunately, my son and I had trustworthy and competent guides who advised us well every step of the way, plus provided us with wonderful food, good water, comfortable accommodations and lots of exploration and adventures. We were often the only Gringos around, as it was off-season, and the river we went up to their camp was extraordinarily low, plus, we arrived in the dead of night, Ruber using a flashlight to watch for trees in the river that we could get hung up on. But each time I was uncertain, I simply had to look at the faces of Ruber, or his father, or Christian to know we were fine, that they knew what to do, were prepared for almost anything, and that we could rely on them over and over. Ruber and his family tailored our trip to our needs, giving us access to a remarkable shaman, as well as shuttling us around Iquitos at the beginning and end of the trip, letting us explore its finer points and attractions and experience life in the tropics, including ingesting giant worms cooked on sticks – amazingly tasty. The most amazing was being cut off from all communications, conveniences and normal things one relies on. We bathed in the river, fished for and ate piranha, drank delicious water from vines fresh cut in the jungle. We were treated special but also as family – it was share and share alike. My son and I both found the trip, its adventures, its moments that shone light into our...
by Aucayacu | Mar 6, 2011 | Photos, Testimonials
A client’s blog (in Dutch), with lots of great photos from an expedition to the Rio Galvez....
