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Some travel impressions from Brazil Tabatinga and Colombia Letitia.
Just a few pictures today. Life of a PT.
Flying in to Tabatinga from Manaus.
Tabatinga Airport.
A short look over the rivet to Peru. Did not had time to cross the boarder this time.
The Triple Frontier where Brazil, Colombia and Peru meet. Not really, but it is a homage to the area.
Lots of possibilities for adventure. A few years ago, I was the only foreigner. The police did even take a picture of my passport. A gringo at the Triple Frontier sounded fishy. Today the tourists have arrived.
Bar Restaurante Tierras Amazónicas
Bar Restaurante Tierras Amazónicas on the Colombian Side. Best food in Leticia.
Triple Frontier? Not here. Here is the Colombian Brazil Boarder. Make sure you get your passport stamped here or at the Colombian airport.
Leticia Airport.
Leaving to Bogota. Nothing but the Amazon below me.
It actually annoyed me to see tourists and I thought, where can I go next time? More adventure, no tourists? I looked at some places of the beaten track. Maybe Miraflores (Guaviare)?
It would be super difficult to get there. You would have to take a small plane from Bogota to some village in the Amazon and then take charter a plane from there.
In August 1998 a Colombian National Police Base was overrun by the FARC guerrillas and later rebuilt and reoccupied in February 2004.
It is super dangerous there. I doubt they have electricity, who knows if cell phones work there? The legal economy in the region is mostly based on logging and agriculture, and to a minor scale artisan fishing. And Cocaine, of course.
08/03/1998: In a series of related incidents, rebels belonging to the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) and the National Liberation Army (NLA) conducted at least 42 attacks throughout the country on August 3 and August 4, 1998, leaving 275 dead and many wounded. In this incident on August 3rd, twenty-two policemen and soldiers were kidnapped, and 10 died when the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) attacked the Miraflores counter-narcotics base in Guaviare Department of Colombia
A small, tiny village in the middle of the Colombian Amazon, where the inhabitants are poor and have nothing. It shows one thing. The futility of the war on drugs. Yes, you could project power there. Bring more soldiers, some tanks, helicopters and fly all supplies in with small planes. It is just 300-400 to Bogota. Even if you cough up the millions needed, the peasants just move 50 miles deeper into the jungle.
But good to know that there are still unexplored places. Decent chance I would be the first tourist there.