This is how you get to the Amazon Animal Orphanage & Pilpintuwasi Butterfly Farm

This toad kept jumping on my mosquito netting through the night.  I couldn't catch it to let it go.  He was too fast.  Soon I went to sleep.  Couldn't find the toad the next morning.

 Nice little room in my corner of San Pedro Lodge.  No electricity ... I came prepared.  Water in shower warmer in the evening, than the morning.  What a way to wake up.

 Breakfast was at 7am.  Good too.  My favorite was hot coffee, fresh squeezed fruit juice, Crepe with slices of banana and another crepe with maple syrup.

 By 8:30 AM your adventure would begin.  After a mile or more walk, (during the rainy season that will start soon, the river rises and the boats can make it all the way to the Lodge), your boat adventure begins.  Today, the Amazon Animal Orphanage & Pilpintuwasi Butterfly Farm.

 It took about an hour or more by boat to reach the Butterfly Farm.

 This is one of the boats you can take down or up river on 2 or 3 day cruises through the jungle on the Amazon.

 These boots were clean before the walk from the lodge to the boat.

 This gentleman is getting the nets ready to do a little fishing...

 The boat rides were very relaxing.  Jino was and is a very good Guide, too.  This is known as Gay Beach in Iquitos.

 The Iquitos water treatment plant.  The suction has sucked in and killed several kids trying to swim across the river.

 This is the new sewer plant for Iquitos built last year by a Chinese company.  The Iquitos people were upset that a company was chosen that was not familiar with building on rivers that rise and lower to such extremes as around here in Iquitos.  Sure enough with the El Nino Floods last year the plant collapsed.  Still no completed plant almost a year later.

 A cool passage the boat took to reach the Butterfly farm.

 We can finally see the trail that leads to the farm.

 Very cool walk through the jungle to Pilpintuwasi.

 This way, yeah!