Missed the Boat

Well, I guess it had to happen eventually - things didn´t quite go according to plan, and as a result, we missed the boat. Thus, we are now stuck here in Colombia, wondering what exactly we´re going to do next....

From Iquitos, we took a fast boat this morning down the river to the triple frontier, where Colombia, Peru and Brasil all converge on the Amazon river. It was a long, hot and tiring day, flying along at about 50kph, in what were not the most comfortable seats on the amazon. Leaving half an hour late (important!) at 6:30am, we arrived at the Peruvian frontier at Santa Rosa at 5:30pm. Knowing we were pushing it, we rushed through peruvian immigration as fast you can do these things, then ran back to the river and jumped in the first little motor boat taxi that there was. Unfortunately, we choose poorly - it was a "peki-peki", not the fastest type of boat in the amazon. We then had a frustratingly slow crossing of the amazon first to Leticia in Colombia, and then on to Tabatinga in Brasil - three countries in fifteen minutes! A fast taxi through town took us to the Brasil federal police to get our entrance visas into Brasil, and for once, something in Sth America was precisely on time - we arrived at 6:01pm, to find them shut, and refusing to deal with us. Bugger.

So, we are now stuck here at the triple frontier, unable to continue further into Brasil until tomorrow morning. However, the problem is that its two days in a boat to our next stop, Tefe, in Brasil, where we have to be on Tuesday morning for a jungle tour that we have booked. And the next boat out of here doesn´t leave until Wednesday. What to do, what to do.....?