I’ve long maintained that I have the heart of an anthropologist, that had I taken anthropology for an elective freshman year instead of sociology, I might have had a different life; so, staying in the village of San Martin de Amacayacu with a few hundred Ticuna Indians was a pinnacle life experience.
No roads, no cars in the village or surrounding river communities, just a few hundred indigenous Amazonians living their lives in the jungle, some three miles up the Rio Amacayacu, selling arts and essentials to ecotourists, washing clothes in the river, playing soccer, and hanging out in the maloca.
We slept under mosquito netting in the Casa Gregorio ecolodge and took one last walk around the village before heading back to Leticia and the motorized world.
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