Whenever I thought of the Amazon, I imagined green thick jungle intersected by brown snakelike rivers and indigenous tribes. Iquitos is the other Amazon that travelers are not aware of but that is also a part of the Amazonian experience. Iquitos is the largest city in the world that is not reachable by road, it is only accessible by boat (couple of days from the nearest road linked city) or by plane.
We took the plane option and the contrast could not have been bigger. A flight from Lima with a stopover in Pucallpa brought us from concrete jungle to real jungle within 2 hours. Read More
After several weeks in China, seeing many Chinese cities and towns, it was a breath of fresh air (literally) to be wandering around the Chinese countryside. We decided to base ourselves in a converted Chinese farmhouse 4km outside of Yangshuo (Guilin). The location could not have been better as we were amongst rice paddies, lush greenery and swaying bamboo trees. Everywhere we looked, we were surrounded by karst mountain peaks in all sizes and shapes. Right across from the farmhouse, we ended every hot day with a swim in one of the two natural swimming holes. 
