The Adventures of Rob & Lauren

After landing in Iquitos we took a motocarro to a hotel in our guidebook. We checked in, but our stuff away, and decided to go for a walk. We strolled to the end of the street we were on, and found ourselves looking out over the Amazon River. That’s the kind of mind blowing nature of Iquitos that has had us hardly even believing what we’ve seen here. 

The architecture and colors of the buildings here are a photographers dream. I loved the way these two motocarros were propped up, with this stunning green building as a backdrop. If you’re curious, this is how they make repairs to their vehicles!

The river rises an incredible amount each year, and as such a lot of houses close to the water are built on stilts. It makes for such an exotic feel to the area.  

Our very first night here provided us with a sunset to remember. These images have had very little done to them in post-processing and yet they have a HDR feel to them. That’s because everything looked like a HDR photo in real life! The green became so vibrant half-way during the sunset and provided a very surreal look that you see in these images.  

It then finished up with some amazing colors in the sky. We have yet to see another like this and have been here for nearly a week.  

We finished up the evening at Chez Maggy for dinner. We actually ate there our very first night in Cuzco! They have four locations throughout Peru I believe and we stumbled into two of them! One little “game” we have played a couple times during dinner was to order the largest item on the menu and share it between the three of us. Even then, we’ve yet to finish it as the portion sizes here are just enormous! This was a bunch of different types of grilled meat, and was mind-blowingly good. (If you’re wondering about that weird light on the meat, that was Rob ever so kindly hooking me up with a little light from the iPhone! It’s truly multi-purpose :)

 Stay tuned because we’ll be posting our shots from our time in the jungle soon, and that will be super duper cool!