Now it happened to me. I was robbed. The whole thing is happening on the Flusscolectivo (boat) to Curiaca, the Comunidad where I wanted to spend the next 2 weeks. I know that the thief has punished my own stupidity. The backpack did not have to be stolen, if I have the advice that was given to me by colleagues and you are otherwise I ran in my life many times over the path would have followed. One should not place them in a country like Peru in just a pocket all his valuables and then this one may be even less supervision. If this happens then even at night, then a theft, the logical consequence. How could I still committing both errors, I do not know myself, but I know I've done it and I know that I device my camera, my GPS, my wallet with 200 soles (about 60 €) and my Peruvian identification document, my phone, my MP3 player, my sunglasses, my pocket knife, my 3 books, rain poncho and a little small stuff will never see again. Since I did not leave before I bother to take out baggage insurance, I'll get on this path no redress.
how everything has gone by rather than being, I now report in detail. On Wednesday afternoon I drove with my luggage, backpack just mentioned, a larger backpack with clothes, tent and sleeping mat, a bag with food for 2 weeks and a 20 liter water containers to the port and boarded the boat "Willian Alfredo" (The n is not a typo. In Peru, names are often written down by ear. So here is sometimes Maycol Michael, Brian Brayan, etc). At about 3:30 I lay in my hammock and waited for my colleagues Hillario, who arrived even a few minutes later. I put my backpack on a bench at the foot end of my hammock. Since I wanted to send a few sms and buy me something to eat, I took out my phone and my wallet from the backpack. A short time later I both tucked back in the bag and saw it as a slim, has large, about 22 years of Peruvians observed with a blue T-shirt and curly hair myself. Actually, this would have been ringing the alarm bells must but I had the backpack in place are just described. My colleague sat down below next to my backpack. The boat pulled away and slowly it began to get dark. The Peruvians with the blue shirt was lying with his head next to my backpack. I was dozing in my hammock, looking every now and then over to my backpack, whether he was still there. Night fell and I fell asleep, woke up again, and often had always seen my backpack in place. About 1 clock I got half asleep with, as my colleague was told to switch sides because the boat had a little list. He took his luggage and sat at my bedside. My backpack he had on my foot of stand alone so that it now stood. I did not react to the situation. A little later I went back to the toilet and saw my backpack in place. This should be the last chance to "save" it for when I woke up at about 4:30 clock had my backpack and the Peruvians with the blue T-shirt away. We were at this time at the pier of "Iparia. After conversations with various passengers and crew of the boat, we were able to determine fairly sure that the guy with my backpack, either in Galilee or Ahuaypa, about 2 hours, down the river got out. How should I respond
now? I did not have some money and my colleague did not properly deal with the situation. I would probably to get out in the darkness in which unknown to me, "Iparia" and to take the next boat down the river, but I decided that, until Curiaca to go to in order to take further steps. By 1 clock noon on Thursday we arrived at last. I called the AIDER office and was instructed to drive away in the same boat back and look in Galilee and Ahuaypa in my backpack.
I was previously at that time and even in the hours clear that the company had little meaning. I had "given away" my pack lightly and that I would never see him again, was the only just punishment. The investigation brought in the two Comunidades as expected nothing. My colleague Hollario had to accompany me and extend his boat must travel a further 24 hours. The arms.
I arrived on Friday afternoon after 48 hours on the river again in Pucallpa. My backpack with almost everything valuable I own here in Peru, is gone and I will never see him again.
I'm mainly because of the camera very sad. Although it sounds silly, but it is in recent years become in my travels a part of me. The photography was for me always a Mitgrund for travel. I am now facing the question of whether I still here in Peru is expected to grow a new camera. At the moment I can not decide. This is supported by that I mean an unfinished work, could vortsetzen a detailed photographic documentation of my weltwärts year. Speaking against, that I had to count also with the fact that I have a second camera was stolen. Perhaps it may even be a chance for me to explore this country with a new look. After all I have in recent years seen many situations, landscapes and images only through the lens of my Canon and thus may have missed the reality.
Everything else can be happy, relatively easily, though financially costly to address. A new phone I'll buy this week and I already have the obligatory display behind me, so I by the German Embassy get issued a new "Green Card".
I hope that I will watch not by this event in future better to my (value) terms. Since I was so far never really stolen anything, it was probably good that I was being shaken up in a relatively harmless way. Peru is a beautiful country, I have had an unforgettable experience and I will certainly have in the future, but we must not forget that there is a downside. This consists of high crime, corruption and poverty. This I have lately seems to be the hidden one time or another too often careless and am going through life here. I hope I last week for my future has learned.
how everything has gone by rather than being, I now report in detail. On Wednesday afternoon I drove with my luggage, backpack just mentioned, a larger backpack with clothes, tent and sleeping mat, a bag with food for 2 weeks and a 20 liter water containers to the port and boarded the boat "Willian Alfredo" (The n is not a typo. In Peru, names are often written down by ear. So here is sometimes Maycol Michael, Brian Brayan, etc). At about 3:30 I lay in my hammock and waited for my colleagues Hillario, who arrived even a few minutes later. I put my backpack on a bench at the foot end of my hammock. Since I wanted to send a few sms and buy me something to eat, I took out my phone and my wallet from the backpack. A short time later I both tucked back in the bag and saw it as a slim, has large, about 22 years of Peruvians observed with a blue T-shirt and curly hair myself. Actually, this would have been ringing the alarm bells must but I had the backpack in place are just described. My colleague sat down below next to my backpack. The boat pulled away and slowly it began to get dark. The Peruvians with the blue shirt was lying with his head next to my backpack. I was dozing in my hammock, looking every now and then over to my backpack, whether he was still there. Night fell and I fell asleep, woke up again, and often had always seen my backpack in place. About 1 clock I got half asleep with, as my colleague was told to switch sides because the boat had a little list. He took his luggage and sat at my bedside. My backpack he had on my foot of stand alone so that it now stood. I did not react to the situation. A little later I went back to the toilet and saw my backpack in place. This should be the last chance to "save" it for when I woke up at about 4:30 clock had my backpack and the Peruvians with the blue T-shirt away. We were at this time at the pier of "Iparia. After conversations with various passengers and crew of the boat, we were able to determine fairly sure that the guy with my backpack, either in Galilee or Ahuaypa, about 2 hours, down the river got out. How should I respond
now? I did not have some money and my colleague did not properly deal with the situation. I would probably to get out in the darkness in which unknown to me, "Iparia" and to take the next boat down the river, but I decided that, until Curiaca to go to in order to take further steps. By 1 clock noon on Thursday we arrived at last. I called the AIDER office and was instructed to drive away in the same boat back and look in Galilee and Ahuaypa in my backpack.
I was previously at that time and even in the hours clear that the company had little meaning. I had "given away" my pack lightly and that I would never see him again, was the only just punishment. The investigation brought in the two Comunidades as expected nothing. My colleague Hollario had to accompany me and extend his boat must travel a further 24 hours. The arms.
I arrived on Friday afternoon after 48 hours on the river again in Pucallpa. My backpack with almost everything valuable I own here in Peru, is gone and I will never see him again.
I'm mainly because of the camera very sad. Although it sounds silly, but it is in recent years become in my travels a part of me. The photography was for me always a Mitgrund for travel. I am now facing the question of whether I still here in Peru is expected to grow a new camera. At the moment I can not decide. This is supported by that I mean an unfinished work, could vortsetzen a detailed photographic documentation of my weltwärts year. Speaking against, that I had to count also with the fact that I have a second camera was stolen. Perhaps it may even be a chance for me to explore this country with a new look. After all I have in recent years seen many situations, landscapes and images only through the lens of my Canon and thus may have missed the reality.
Everything else can be happy, relatively easily, though financially costly to address. A new phone I'll buy this week and I already have the obligatory display behind me, so I by the German Embassy get issued a new "Green Card".
I hope that I will watch not by this event in future better to my (value) terms. Since I was so far never really stolen anything, it was probably good that I was being shaken up in a relatively harmless way. Peru is a beautiful country, I have had an unforgettable experience and I will certainly have in the future, but we must not forget that there is a downside. This consists of high crime, corruption and poverty. This I have lately seems to be the hidden one time or another too often careless and am going through life here. I hope I last week for my future has learned.
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