In three days to Peru

It´s already a week ago, but I had an awesome boat ride between Leticia (Colombia) and Iquitos (Peru). There are two ferries to Iquitos. The fast one that arrives in 8 hours, with a good seat and costs 75 dollars or the slow one that takes two days and three nights and costs 30 dollars all inclusive. Of course I took the slow one, because it´s an amazing tour on the Amazon river, with pink dolphins, beautiful sunsets, lot´s of birds and small villages on the side.
They told me the food was very bad and the toilets very dirty, but I had a great boat with two transvestites, who did some good but simple cooking and they cleaned the boat all the time. The water they use for taking a shower and the toilets is from the river, that works super. The boat is loaded with Peruvians and Colombians and some tourist (2 Russians and a French guy) all sleeping in hammocks, like a hundred each deck. I slept on the second deck, which was more open, with a view on the river...and slept like a baby after my seven day course of sleeping in a hammock in the jungle.
I brought my chaquiras (beads), to make some bracelets. The whole time during the boat trip there were at least three man and some kids looking at me working on a loom (weefgetouw). Asking me how much they cost. When I told them they were not for sale, some of them stayed and begged me to make one for them. Two persons told me their name, to make one for them with their name, another girl wanted to exchange her bracelet from Ecuador for mine and a the girl in the next hammock asked me ten time "please make this one a present for me". It was impossible to please them all, so I didn´t give or sell one.
Instead on the second day I gave one girl who was at my side for hours some beads and thread and in no time there were 6 other girls making necklaces and bracelets of the beads. When a little brother of a girl wanted to join in, he was prohibited by the girl "boys don´t make beads". So I gave him some beads and thread, which he brought to his mother to make him a necklace. After 3 hours of non stop workshop, they used all my thread and almost all my beads, but I was a bag of bananas, a peanut bar, popcorn, lots of smiles of the kids and their mum´s richer. It was a great way to pass time on a boat.

One big women with one tooth left in her mouth and a big smile, selling peanuts on the boat was sitting next to me, watching me work and asking me a ton of questions. Where I lived, if I had kids, how Amsterdam looked like, if I had a husband, how old I was.... When I told her 37, she said "then you are from ´73 like me" and she made a bigger smile hit me a few time on my ass and told me that she looked like an "abuela" (grandmother) in comparison to me. Hit me again and said it was because I didn´t had so many kids and gave me some peanuts,leaving the boat with a big smile