164 kilometres from Tarapoto, in the Peruvian Amazon, there is another Palestine. Children swim in its Jordan River, on their way to Jerusalem.
164 kilometres from Tarapoto, in the Peruvian Amazon, there is another Palestine. Children swim in its Jordan River on their way to the next village, Jerusalem. It is summer, the plants are bearing fruit, and it is New Year. The story goes that in the 1970s a Palestinian man bought land here and left to fetch his family; by the time he returned, others had settled it. His name is forgotten. The name he gave the place is not.
