{"id":8962,"date":"2018-07-14T09:45:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-14T15:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/?p=8962"},"modified":"2018-07-12T17:49:14","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T23:49:14","slug":"peru-amazon-solo-dream-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/2018\/07\/14\/peru-amazon-solo-dream-adventure\/","title":{"rendered":"One Month In the Peruvian Amazon: One Woman\u2019s Solo Dream Adventure Come True"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple years ago, an adventurous solo female AWR traveler, Tracey, went to the Peruvian Amazon with AWR for a week and stayed in Iquitos at the Muyuna Lodge<\/a>. This year, she came back to us asking to put together a special customized package for her; she wanted to return to the Peruvian Amazon<\/a> for a month and do a homestay this time. Read on to hear about Tracey\u2019s month-long homestay in the Amazon!<\/p>\n

\u201cWow!\u00a0 Peru was amazing!\u00a0 My experience there and with AWR was a definite 10!<\/em><\/p>\n

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Tracey in the cloud forest<\/p><\/div>\n

During my trip everyone met me at the airports and stayed with me until I got checked in etc.\u00a0 I kicked them out of the airport a couple of times ? the service was great but not always necessary ?<\/em><\/p>\n

The hotels were nice in Lima and Arequipa.<\/em><\/p>\n

THE JUNGLE\/CLOUD FOREST:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Making friends with local families<\/p><\/div>\n

Sooo, I flew to Jaen.\u00a0 1 gate open air airport in the middle of nowhere.\u00a0 No problem. ? I would stay in Chachapoyas for the week.\u00a0 I had been doing so much traveling etc. I wanted to relax and I had plenty of time for the forest.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Local Market in Chachapoyas<\/p><\/div>\n

My first day there I found a language school a block away from the hotel, signed up for Spanish Class and found a tour company on the square to book some tours.\u00a0 I fell in love with Chachapoyas!\u00a0 It is a destination for Peruvians!\u00a0 I met very few Americans, just the way I like it!\u00a0 Their sights have just started opening up to tourism in the past 15 years.\u00a0 My first tour, I met a Peruvian family with 3 boys, the oldest spoke English.\u00a0 What a wonderful family!\u00a0 I spent another day with them on another tour, so fun!\u00a0 The hotel staff was wonderful to me as well as the tour people.\u00a0 I had a lot of down time and I met amazing people!\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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View from homestay house<\/p><\/div>\n

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Hosts at homestay<\/p><\/div>\n

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Tracey helping in the kitchen<\/p><\/div>\n

The next Monday, Vicky another daughter of the family whose homestay I would be at, brought me to the bus station to go to Bagua Grande to meet Leyda.\u00a0 We drove maybe 45min – 1 hour into the mountains.\u00a0 Then hiked 1.5-2 hours into the forest in mud and pouring rain, arrived at her parents house after dark\u2026. I loved it!\u00a0 Soooo amazing!\u00a0 They raised 6 girls in this house, they walked an hour each way to go to school.\u00a0 5 years ago they put in some hydroelectric lights and solar for hot water for the shower.\u00a0 I always had a flash light in my pocket ?. The house is in the clouds, 6,000 ft.\u00a0 Cloudy and rainy every day and soooooo amazing!\u00a0 Saw the sun a few times for a little while.\u00a0 It really is beautiful.\u00a0 I was there for 8 days, a group of 5 came up to study birds for 5 days.\u00a0 2 were from Florida doing their PHD and 1 guy from Colombia, 1 guy from Peru and Vicky the younger daughter of the family who owned the house.\u00a0 They were in the field during the day, so it was very peaceful, I read 2 books.\u00a0 I went into the pasture and tried to milk the cows, (not very successfully) I made cheese 1 day and Vicky and I taught each other English and Spanish!\u00a0\u00a0 There are beautiful water falls on their property.\u00a0 It is just a magical place.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Waterfalls on the property<\/p><\/div>\n

I really went without expectations\u2026and I would go back in a heartbeat!\u00a0 I guess it reminded me what is needed for happiness, obviously not much\u2026In general Peruvians there don\u2019t have much and don\u2019t need much to be happy warm people.\u00a0 I came home and cleaned my house out of stuff, because that is all it is \u201cstuff\u201d.\u00a0 And right now, it is hard to hang onto the magic I felt there, now being in this society that puts so much importance on the wrong things.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Homestay in the clouds<\/p><\/div>\n

I left the cloud forest and went back to Chachapoyas for the last couple of days before returning to Lima.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Thank you so much for making this happen for me!\u00a0 It was an experience of a lifetime!\u00a0 I will always recommend AWR!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

For more information on this homestay, please contact us or visit their website HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Want to plan your next dream adventure<\/a>? Contact us to make it happen!<\/p>\n

Your friendly Peru expert,<\/p>\n

Gretchen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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