Thanks to a friend i got some contacts about people in the Park Pacaya Samiria. Indeed you can’t visit it without a credited agency. But... i did it.
How to go to Nauta.
From Iquitos there is company (Agencia Jaén) doing this trip Iquitos-Nauta. A van leaves approximately every hours, more exactly when they are full. To find the place, paradero de Jaen, ask a moto taxi. The trip to Nauta takes a little bit less than 2h.
When i arrived i asked another moto taxi for cheap hospedaje... 15soles, but crapy, close to the porto.
What was my surprised, close to the hostel, also close to the port, there were many, maybe 10, intervention police cars, like swat. I discovered they were waiting for a prisoner transfer arriving by boat.
Also this day I saw a big march for some political party. Impressive, there were some dancers, music, a lot of people and all with the same t-shirt “1000”. Yes that was the party name.
All the parties used really simple iconography, simple symbols: a roster, a K, epis de blé, etc. The goal is to make it simple for the people to recognize.
At the port I met Julio but its small company is called Lorenzo. We agreed on a price and we also tried to get more tourist on this tour to lower my price. I asked other guys arriving but they all had already some planes. So unsuccessful :(
Nevertheless, the day after I went for the tour. It was his brother and his family that were coming with me. The brother was also guide and decided to show his wife were he was bringing all the tourist. Not all actually, because the boy was really young like 4years. So sometimes they waited on the boat.
We passed by the point where the Amazon river starts. It was funny I was there the following day of the discovery anniversary, the 27 August 2018.
“El descubrimiento del río Amazonas se realizó entre el 4 de febrero y el 26 de agosto de 1542 por la expedición liderada por el español Francisco de Orellana.”
Wikipedia
In the forest he show me many medicinal plantes. I am certainly not able to recognize them now, unfortunately.
Catabua veneno para sarbacana
Capinuri para úlceras tipo goma amarilla
Arbolo caminante
Cumaceba viagra natural
Ayaumbo se almiento los monos pero no los humanos
Yarin planta para los techos
Sashajo huele a ajo
Palmito lo de las salsas :)
También los ramos llenos de agua.
When returning back we saw one boat from gap adventure ... they were having lunch on the river shore with a really fake fake indigenous dance (where they are no indigenous! Not anymore since 50years at least)
To finish I passed the last night at the guide house with his family. They were seeing a really stupid popular show on the TV. Popular because I already saw many places where the show was on tv and stupid just because it was like something just entertain: competition sportive between teams but with complaints, insults all the basic “colibron”.
The house as he said was “humilde”. The tv was half broken, only half of the picture but still they were sharing it with the neighbor that had none. It had only few furniture. No running water, they to take it from a tape on the street. The bathroom was only the “sanita” without walls, only plastics to hide yourself from neighbors.
Lorenzo guia