Day Two Hundred Seventy-Six: Juane

We spent the day exploring some markets in Iquitos and then took to the water to explore a small portion of the Amazon and one of its tribitaries. Our tour included a lunch of a typical Amonzonian dish: juane. It consists of chicken, an egg, and an olive, hidden in a ball of rice and wrapped in some sort of leaf and then baked for hours. The taste was somewhat similar to a tamale, though of course, the texture was quite different. I thought it was really good, and it was made even better by the surroundings in which it was consumed!

Juane