I am well and as per usual there are dramas with travelling. My flight to Iquitos was cancelled today due to bad weather. I`m on another flight at 6pm tonight. I got in from Guayaquil (Ecuador) at 7 last night and had to be at the airport early, so left the hotel at 2:30am! Just to wait until 5:30am to find out the flight was cancelled. Mad rush to get hold of people to check what to do. Got email from Peru Jungel people to say that they will meet me at the airport tonight. The boat usually only goes to the lodge on Mondays, so maybe it was also delayed due to the weather?? Will find out when I get there. Also spoke to my travel insurance co as I thought I may miss out on the Jungle trip altogether. Spent about an hour sorting the paperwork in case I need to pay for accommodation tonight and my trip is cancelled. They will pay up to $200 for a hotel. (Ha! It costs about $50 for a VERY nice room here, may be living like a queen for one day of my trip...)
Today is Independance Day in Peru, so I`m not sure what is going on in Lima. I`m looking on the internet to see if the zoo is open today. One taxi driver said it will be like a madhouse as all the poor families with their screaming kids go there for the day as it`s a holiday today (actually, he didn`t really say that, I`m just paraphrasing into Ingles).
There is also a celebration at Plaza de Armas in historic downtown Lima, so I may go there. But it only starts at 11am and I don`t feel like being mugged today.
I`ll come back to the airport at 3pm. Spoke to another couple who missed their flight to Cusco. The plane left 50min early, while they were having a coffee yesterday.
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