After almost a month, we left Atalaya, filled with impressions and memories of lovely encounters with people and nature. It makes you want to build a house somewhere in the village, plant a banana and coconut tree, some cassava and sugarcane, and simply live naturally like the native Indians. Perhaps one day when we’re older. … Read more
It was raining cats and dogs and it didn’t seem to stop. We sat with Enrique under the roof of our missionary post in the Indian village of El Diamante, watched the kids playing and enjoying the rain, thinking only one thing: will we be able to get to Nuevo Progreso, which was the next … Read more
Many years ago, a villager was walking along the narrow jungle paths, not far from the Native American community by the Ucayali River. Suddenly, he saw a marvelous stone and realized that he found a diamond. He moved to Satipo, sold the diamond and reveled in his riches. That’s what the chieftess of a Native … Read more
Atalaya is a small town in the Ucayali Region of Peru. The town has 30,000 inhabitants, the half of them being Natives who moved here from small communities in the Amazon rainforest. Atalaya is the capital of the Atalaya Province and the Raymondi District. It is actually a port town by the Tambo River that, … Read more
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