My Four-Day Trip To Peru To Try Ayahuasca
The sun was setting over the horizon, which meant the mosquitoes were getting ready for dinner. It was time to get inside. I was way out in the sticks, in a small jungle compound sitting next to a tributary of the river Amazon about a two hour’s boat ride from Iquitos, the nearest town and the world’s largest urban center unreachable by road. Together with my fellow travelers I’d come here to this remote part of the Peruvian Amazon to take part in an ayahuasca ritual. What is ayahuasca? Oh, only one of the most powerful hallucinogens known to man.
There was probably just over a dozen of us altogether, mostly Americans and Canadians but also a few Europeans (all gringos I know, but the locals do it too). Among them were a really nice German couple from Munich and a Canadian rock musician named Bruce. And then there were the support staff, on-hand to make sure we don’t do anything stupid like jump into the river while we were tripping off our…
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