https://bkpk.me Piggy-back ride with A&Z Sun, 26 Jun 2022 18:39:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 https://bkpk.me/tip-save-big-on-your-kindle-books/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tip-save-big-on-your-kindle-books https://bkpk.me/tip-save-big-on-your-kindle-books/#comments Tue, 30 Jul 2013 16:32:51 +0000 Ashray http://bkpk.me/?p=8877
This is a pretty interesting ‘price-hack’ that you can use to get your Kindle books really *really* cheap. Amazon has just launched the kindle store in India. However, as books in India are often cheaper than books in other countries, the prices on the Kindle store too reflect local expectations. ... more »]]> https://bkpk.me/tip-save-big-on-your-kindle-books/feed/ 14 https://bkpk.me/business-on-the-amazon-river/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=business-on-the-amazon-river https://bkpk.me/business-on-the-amazon-river/#comments Sun, 14 Jul 2013 10:40:26 +0000 Ashray http://bkpk.me/?p=8844
A lot of people think of the Amazon river as a water body snaking through the dense forest in solitude. However, with human settlements, villages, and cities in the middle of the Amazon, the river is transformed into a massive highway. Boats ply day and night and give birth to ... more »]]> https://bkpk.me/business-on-the-amazon-river/feed/ 0 https://bkpk.me/into-the-wild-our-amazon-trip-part-22-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=into-the-wild-our-amazon-trip-part-22-2 https://bkpk.me/into-the-wild-our-amazon-trip-part-22-2/#comments Thu, 07 Feb 2013 11:43:46 +0000 Zara http://bkpk.me/?p=6419
If our first day in the Amazon was exciting, the remaining time we enjoyed there wasn’t any less! And this video is a proof of that:     Day 2 Life in the Amazon starts at dawn: this applies whether you are a local or a visitor! With a 6AM ... more »]]> https://bkpk.me/into-the-wild-our-amazon-trip-part-22-2/feed/ 1 https://bkpk.me/a-window-in-the-jungle/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-window-in-the-jungle https://bkpk.me/a-window-in-the-jungle/#comments Wed, 06 Feb 2013 09:55:42 +0000 Zara http://bkpk.me/?p=6036
We never thought there would be cement buildings in the middle of the Amazon. That is certainly not the romanticized image of the jungle one gets from photos and movies. But when we actually went into the wild in Peru, we discovered that the Amazon is more than dense vegetation, tribes and exotic ... more »]]> https://bkpk.me/a-window-in-the-jungle/feed/ 1 https://bkpk.me/into-the-wild-our-amazon-trip-part-12/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=into-the-wild-our-amazon-trip-part-12 https://bkpk.me/into-the-wild-our-amazon-trip-part-12/#comments Wed, 06 Feb 2013 08:11:53 +0000 Zara http://bkpk.me/?p=6375
The beauty of traveling in Peru is that, within the same country, there are such diverse areas as the coast, the highlands (Andes) and the jungle (Amazon). Until last year, whenever I’d think of the Amazon, I’d immediately picture a region within Brazil. Although it is true that the vast ... more »]]> https://bkpk.me/into-the-wild-our-amazon-trip-part-12/feed/ 8 https://bkpk.me/amazonian-petrol-pump/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=amazonian-petrol-pump https://bkpk.me/amazonian-petrol-pump/#comments Sat, 05 Jan 2013 20:29:45 +0000 Zara http://bkpk.me/?p=6020
Riding a boat up the Amazon River, in the Peru side of it, we came across a fairly developed town that the locals call “distrito“. It is indeed a sort of capital town where the things that don’t exist in the villages scattered around the jungle are more likely available. ... more »]]> https://bkpk.me/amazonian-petrol-pump/feed/ 0 https://bkpk.me/la-casa-fiztcarraldo-sleeping-in-mick-jaggers-room/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=la-casa-fiztcarraldo-sleeping-in-mick-jaggers-room https://bkpk.me/la-casa-fiztcarraldo-sleeping-in-mick-jaggers-room/#comments Sat, 15 Dec 2012 11:52:04 +0000 Zara http://bkpk.me/?p=5432
To visit the Peruvian side of the Amazon, we arrived in the jungle city of Iquitos and spent some time in town before going into the wild. La Casa Fitzcarraldo was our base to explore the biggest city within the Amazon and we spent a few days, no more no ... more »]]> https://bkpk.me/la-casa-fiztcarraldo-sleeping-in-mick-jaggers-room/feed/ 3 https://bkpk.me/the-fishermans-daughter/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-fishermans-daughter https://bkpk.me/the-fishermans-daughter/#comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 05:42:04 +0000 Zara http://bkpk.me/?p=4687
We saw this little girl in the Amazon river. Her Dad was a fisherman which we met while he was catching some fish. We had to approach him to buy some petrol as we were running low in our little canoe and we were supposed to go back to our ... more »]]> https://bkpk.me/the-fishermans-daughter/feed/ 0 https://bkpk.me/catch-of-the-day/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=catch-of-the-day https://bkpk.me/catch-of-the-day/#comments Thu, 20 Sep 2012 00:15:47 +0000 Ashray http://bkpk.me/?p=4398
While canoeing in the Amazon river looking for pink dolphins our little motor ran out of fuel. Not being able to paddle upstream we stopped at this friendly fisherman’s boat. He and his family were busy netting their catch of the day. September 5th 2012 was an amazing day in ... more »]]> https://bkpk.me/catch-of-the-day/feed/ 1 https://bkpk.me/sunset-from-the-amazon-river/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sunset-from-the-amazon-river https://bkpk.me/sunset-from-the-amazon-river/#comments Thu, 13 Sep 2012 04:33:06 +0000 Ashray http://bkpk.me/?p=4301
The amazon river snakes along the belly of South America. Home to millions, if not billions of plants and animals also known as the lungs of the earth. This is a view from the middle of the amazon river, we were on a boat looking for pink dolphins and witnessed ... more »]]> https://bkpk.me/sunset-from-the-amazon-river/feed/ 5 https://bkpk.me/amazonian-girl/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=amazonian-girl https://bkpk.me/amazonian-girl/#comments Sun, 09 Sep 2012 23:33:14 +0000 Zara http://bkpk.me/?p=4236
She lives in a village in the middle of the Amazonian jungle, in Peru. Her hometown has 94 people and it’s strangely called “Centro America”. The people of Centro America live with a sense of community rare in the world now-a-days: Centro-americans have their own plantations, but everybody helps their ... more »]]> https://bkpk.me/amazonian-girl/feed/ 2 https://bkpk.me/the-grass-is-always-greener-on-the-other-side/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-grass-is-always-greener-on-the-other-side https://bkpk.me/the-grass-is-always-greener-on-the-other-side/#comments Tue, 21 Aug 2012 15:37:17 +0000 Zara http://bkpk.me/?p=3986
We met this fella in a monkey reserve in the Ecuadorian Amazon. As the cities around the Amazon extended, part of the Amazon was deforested and the animals found their natural habitat destroyed. Furthermore, electrical lines where placed in nearby towns and roads and monkeys didn’t instinctively understand that they ... more »]]> https://bkpk.me/the-grass-is-always-greener-on-the-other-side/feed/ 2 https://bkpk.me/the-amazonian-butterfly/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-amazonian-butterfly https://bkpk.me/the-amazonian-butterfly/#comments Sun, 29 Apr 2012 18:59:35 +0000 Ashray http://bkpk.me/?p=2074
The biodiversity in the Amazon will leave you spellbound! Here’s a beautiful butterfly with an extremely intricate design on it’s wings. Nature is so wonderful in the way it colors it’s creatures. Walking through the amazon, you’ll be subjected to a cocktail of colors, smells, and experiences. Lush green trees, ... more »]]> https://bkpk.me/the-amazonian-butterfly/feed/ 0 https://bkpk.me/green-dreams-at-eco-guesthouse-la-casa-verde/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=green-dreams-at-eco-guesthouse-la-casa-verde https://bkpk.me/green-dreams-at-eco-guesthouse-la-casa-verde/#comments Thu, 19 Apr 2012 20:50:14 +0000 Zara http://bkpk.me/?p=1957
When you travel long-term it is very important to every now and then settle in a place for a while and take a vacation from traveling. As silly as this might sound, sometimes you just feel like being at home. Not planning anything to see and not doing much more ... more »]]> https://bkpk.me/green-dreams-at-eco-guesthouse-la-casa-verde/feed/ 5 https://bkpk.me/looking-out-over-the-amazon/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=looking-out-over-the-amazon https://bkpk.me/looking-out-over-the-amazon/#comments Wed, 11 Apr 2012 05:30:17 +0000 Ashray http://bkpk.me/?p=1852
Zara looks out over the vast expanse of the Amazon rainforest, the lungs of the Earth. In a remote part of Ecuador, we climbed over 200 steps to get the top. The view was worth it!]]> https://bkpk.me/looking-out-over-the-amazon/feed/ 8