Leaving La Amatista

My hero awakens me at 4:30 A.M. so that I'll have time to dress and pack my toiletries before the luggage is collected. Breakfast is consumed with dispatch since we must depart at 6 A.M. Back on the bus to Iquitos and a torturous wait in line at the LAN counter - well over an hour - which is followed by a blessedly short flight to Lima. We go to Pura Peru for a huge ass buffet and score a pisco sour. Yikes - those things can lay you low on an empty stomach. To our rooms at the Swissotel where we are getting to know the staff a little too well. At 10 P.M. we head for the airport - our 6th and final time. A bit before 2 A.M. we fly homeward. There's nothing like it!