in Iquitos

Mi Amigos, buenos noches

we are in iquitos, peru as of yesterday. we landed thursday night in Lima and we did not get to sleep until 3 am, then got up at 6am. I couldn´t sleep so it ws 38 hours before I got any sleep just because I had the micro hydro surveying stuff in my head. We met with the health minister first thing in the morning, and he said he will come to see the Governers in our area next week and tell them to do everything possible to help us in the future. He also said that in his meeting with the hydro electric people, of whom he is in charge of, he will tell them to find ways of financing some projects to build a factory here for us for things we are going to manufacture here. Following that we met with the minister of foreign affairs who gave us tons of valuable information, along with her cell phone numer to call us if we need ANYTHING while we are here. This woman is exactly the kind of person who can make things happen fast with any government agency in Puru.

Casey

More later with pictures.


Nice hotels with AIR CONDITIONING. It is very humid and warm, but no worse than Orlando, FL in my opinion. The food has been excellent. Iquitos, is the larges city in the world that cannot be accessed by roads. Once inside the city, 99.99% of people ride motorcycles or 3 wheeled motorcycle cabs. We are going to our first village today.