For one serene hour, we were human cargo in a world of pink. The sky was Persian rose; the river, reflecting it, ran ruby as it flowed as smooth as glass. We forgot the world as we stood on the roof ...

The Irish Times’ Sorcha Pollak talks with presenter Fionn Davenport about her formative gap year, which she spent in the Peruvian Amazon. There are times in life when a two-week holiday is not enough.

Iquitos, Peru – Late afternoon is the busiest time in the muddy harbour of Iquitos in the Amazon basin, in the northeast of Peru. Men haul stacks of bottled soda and kilos of rice on their backs, ...