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The 地図/計画する that follows puts our trip in 状況... and gives you an idea of the size of the アマゾン. The small green rectangle on the first 地図/計画する more than 含む/封じ込めるd our whole two weeks. This might be the place to について言及する an amazing statistic: Between where we were and the 大西洋, which is a distance of about 2300 miles, the land 落ちるs only 55 feet. See why the river meanders?!
Below the 地図/計画する, the annotated 空中の photo gives you an 輪郭(を描く) of our trip, but see the text below it, to understand what the numbers 示す....
Our trip started in Lima (not shown), where we spent a day. (Most people arrived late on the 24th of February, 2007. The Swisshotel took very good care of us.) From there, 早期に on the 29th, we flew to Iquitos (示すd 1 on the 地図/計画する), and (機の)カム into the excellent care of the Explorama group. We visited the eponymous 宿泊する, but all our 夜通し stays were at other "Explo-" bases.
Our party of 26 (除外するing Explorama and ジャングル 探検隊/遠征隊s staff) boarded two small, 急速な/放蕩な (35mph), covered boats in Iquitos, and 始める,決める off downriver, turning north at "2" into the Napo River, ending up at "3", the Explornapo (軍の)野営地,陣営, which was our base until March 4th.
Then we went 支援する to "1", again passing by "2" on the way, with an 夜通し stop in the luxurious Ceiba 最高の,を越すs 訴える手段/行楽地, which is between "1" and "2".
支援する in Iquitos ("1"), on Sunday, March 4th, we 移転d to the care of the also excellent ジャングル 探検隊/遠征隊s, and boarded their splendid Amatista, our home for the 残り/休憩(する) of our ジャングル time, setting off upriver just before noon. (The Amatista carried several small boats with her for 接近ing 支流 waters, and general chores.)
We sailed to the confluence of the Maranon and Ucayali rivers, "4", which is where the Peruvians say "the アマゾン" starts. (Brazil (人命などを)奪う,主張するs another confluence as the start. Guess where it lies?)
At "4", we turned west, and went up the Maranon to about "5".
We then retraced our steps to the confluence ("4"), and went up the Ucayali. On the 7th, we had, in the small boats, a 広大な/多数の/重要な, 6 hour... it didn't seem so long... 探検隊/遠征隊 into the Pacaya-Samiria reserve, which is shown on more 詳細(に述べる)d 地図/計画するs. The pale rectangle around "6" shows the area covered by the more 詳細(に述べる)d 地図/計画するs. We had lunch at the 特別奇襲隊員's 駅/配置する at "6", our most south-westerly point on the 旅行.
(All told, 含むing the 新たな展開s and turns of the river, our 旅行 on the Aramisa covered about 700 miles.)
All good things come to an end... after reaching "6", we sailed 支援する downriver, past "4", 支援する to Iquitos. On the 10th, we had an 早期に breakfast on Amatista, took a morning flight to Lima, did some "touristing" in the town, and then (late on the 10th) flew onward to our さまざまな homes after a joyous evening "end of trip" 祝賀 party at the Lima Swisshotel, where we'd had day rooms.
Here's a rather nicer 地図/計画する of where we were... I hope the copyright 支えるもの/所有者 can 許す me? (I don't know where it (機の)カム from, or I'd ask him/ her... yes, I know....)