About WalterPedersen

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Peru: Moving to Iquitos/school/banks:

Welcome to Iquitos. As for banking, if you get an account in Bank of America in the US you can use the ATM of Scotia Bank, which has a large office here with plenty of ATMs, with NO CHARGE to take out dollars--but only from BoA. (Otherwise it gets expensive.) Then right near the bank outside there are money changers. I prefer the two women in front of Interbank across the street from Scotia Bank. They will give you very good rates to change the dollars to soles. Although I have an account here (have residency as retiree/rentista), am not sure I really needed a bank. As far as school, I suspect there are good private schools...maybe even bilingual in English...I would check into it. Or just get a really good tutor for the kids in the spare time to help them with Spanish. You probably want to talk to Migraciones about your status. I think technically you can only be here 183 days out of any year...but am not sure. We have a newspaper in English and Spanish called The Amazon River Monthly...you can see it on www.issuu.com/theamazonrivermonthly. Good luck!

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