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Iquitos, with a population of roughly a half-million people, is the largest city in the world not accessible by road.
Located in northeast Peru, the Amazon rainforest makes the cost of
building a road too prohibitive. You either have to fly in or take a
week-long river-boat ride. Since there is really nowhere to drive, save
a 100-K section of paved road connecting Iquitos to the smaller town of
Nauta, and given Iquitos' generally poor economy, there are relatively
few cars in the city. So omnibuses like these are a major mode of transportation for the locals. This bus, which usually goes from the airport to the town's Belén district, was chartered to get the group I was with out of the jungle and back to town (that's the soon-to-be-famous, fiction writer Moriah Cleveland waving in the window). We were pulled over twice by the cops who we would have had to bribe if we didn't have the correct papers...we had the correct papers.
Kyle, a friend and writing colleague, dug the font they used for the lettering on this bus. As a magazine guy, he knows a great font when he sees it. He also has a great blog about media and publishing, along with some great photos of his own. Check it out at www.bigandsharp.com.
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