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Iquitos Slideshow
Top Hotels in Iquitos
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El Dorado Plaza Iquitos
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El Dorado Iquitos
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Victoria Regia Hotel Iquitos
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Hotel Acosta Iquitos
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Amazon Apart Hotel Iquitos
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Ambassador Iquitos
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Hotel Amazon Garden Iquitos
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Real Hotel Iquitos
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Rio Grande Hotel Iquitos
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Yanapuma Iquitos
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Amazonas Sinchicuy Lodge Iquitos
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Ecovagabond Lodge Iquitos
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Hotel Maranon Iquitos
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Hotel Golden Star Iquitos
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Heliconia Amazon River Lodge Iquitos
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Ayahuasca Camaranti Iquitos
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Hospedaje El Sitio Iquitos
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Hospedaje La Pascana Iquitos
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Hostal El Colibri Iquitos
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Hostal Jhuliana Iquitos
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Iquitos
Travel Blogs from Iquitos, Peru
Lost in the Amazon Basin
This is a top pick! ... an experience unique to this part of the world. I would do it all again in a heartbeat. Kristina returns to Peru tomorrow and will be meeting me here in Iquitos. From here, the two of us and some friends plan on getting a three day boat that will ...
Bald dogs and funny biscuits
This is a top pick! ... numerous British actors. Shame on you, Dame Judi. From Lima, I said a sad goodbye to Nick and Monica and flew to Iquitos in the north of Peru, allegedly the only major town in the world accessible just by air and boat. It's noisy, hot and steamy, 90% ...
Farewell Pisco, its been real!
This is a top pick! ... and I will be spending my Christmas on the amazon river swimming with pink dolphins. We will meet again on the 30th in Iquitos along with some other friends and head up the Amazon to Leticia, the jungle frontier town that borders Colombia, Peru and ...
The Shaman in the Amazon! - Day 93
This is a top pick! ... I started hallucinating. I saw my watch on the floor which I haven't worn for weeks, I knew it was in my big backpack in Iquitos, but I really believed it was my watch on the floor. Then the next thing a remember is the shaman throwing water over me and ...
The Slums of Belen
This is a top pick! I have arrived in Iquitos, a loud, hot, slightly crazy jungle town in Peru that boasts the title of the largest city in the world without road access... you can only arrive or leave by plane or boat. The half million inhabitants here all get around on ...
Snake Scarf
This is a top pick! ... one yet but I was hot on the trail. In fact all I had to do was go out to the 'Serpentario', a short boat ride from Iquitos. The whole serpentario was a little sad, as the animals were kept in small cages. This was ok for the small animals but not them ...
In the Amazon
This is a top pick! After touring the slums near Iquitos, I headed out to a small game preserve with some other backpackers from Canada and England. The game preserve is really quite small and just has a butterfly farm and some rescued animals from the region including ...
The intention behind Human Sacrifices
This is a top pick! ... those ancient civilizations. There were different levels of sacrifices done. For example, during the Chavin era in Peru, around 100 BC, hundreds of surrounding tribes were joining this spiritual center and offering the things that were the ...
Ayahuasca
This is a top pick! get the bus with Farah, Conner and Phil. I have a little sleep. Perfume ceremony more relaxing and sleep for me. Up just after 7pm, hungry! over to the ceremony. More ceremony, then drinking the stuff one at a time, I had half a cup to ...
Reaching enlightenment for an instant
This is a top pick! My higher consciousness journey consisted of an 8 days Ayahuasca shamanic retreat in the jungle of Peru, nearby Iquitos. This is a different type of shamanism I have been trained for as it involves the use of medicinal plants. These ceremonies ...
Iquitos
This is a top pick! ... around the place but is also decked out in loads of animal skins, furs and bones - not for animal lovers! Anyway I quite like Iquitos. The local square Plaza de Armas is very busy and there are quite a few restaurants etc. Then there is the river bank ...
Iquitos - Day 91-92
This is a top pick! ... glad to be in Peru after 2 months in dangerous and expensive Brazil. I really think I'm going to enjoy my time in Peru, I feel much more at ease already. Iquitos is the biggest city in the world with no roads in or out. The only way it's 500,000 ...
Arrival in Iquitos, Peru
This is a top pick! Iquitos, Peru Inspired by our trip in the jungle, when we arrived back in Cusco we decided to make a run for it to Iquitos to start our trip down the Amazon. We ran straight from one plane onto the next and changed in Lima sneaking through security to ...
Jungle Fever
This is a top pick! We finally made it to the jungle! It´s well humid and about the only thing to see in this town is the ramshackle market where you can snack on barbecued worms (no thanks, think I´ll wait for dinner) or taste the local saliva embellished brew... One ...
Rio Amazona
This is a top pick! ... to say about that ;o) and finally to achieve one of my great ambitions, to trek the Amazon Rainforest, this meant for me destination Iquitos, the worlds largest city with no road access. Situated in the heart of the Peruvian Amazon it's the launch pad for ...
Iquitos - The Twilight Zone
This is a top pick! After a few days in my retreat, someone called Iquitos the Twilight Zone, as it seems to combine so many different energies and events happening. I have spent today my first day here and I must say that this name is just perfect for this ...
Iquitos, Peru
This is a top pick! Iquitos, Peru Woke up in the freaky hobo hideout and wondered what the hell we were hiding from. More likely to be the land lady than anything else so we packed up and got the hell out of there ! After a dubious breakfast in Aris Burgers (wrong ...
In Silence - Merging with nature
This is a top pick! This week consisted of using a different medicinal plant called Berbinzana and retreat in silence in the jungle for one week. All I knew prior to this week was that Berbinzana had the faculty to open the heart, whatever that really meant. I ...
Machetes at the ready
This is a top pick! ... 't have much time for him to get settled into the idea of being in South America before our very early flight the next morning to Iquitos. The lack of this time to get used to it all was definitely a bad thing when we arrived in Iquitos - the noise and ...
Death on the Amazon
Almost a waste of paying for accommodation, we woke up at 2.15am for our boat to Iquitos. Being such great morning people we were very excited about this. We got a taxi to Tabatinga (Brazil) where it's possible to get a boat that early in the ...
Iquitos you and I both know
This is a top pick! ... to the nth degree and proved quite helpful for just S/.5 (AUD$2.50). As we drove into the city we saw the famous Iquitos motocarros, little three wheelered motorbikes that people sit in the back of. They are very similar to tuk tuks in Thailand, just as ...
Iquitos at last
So we are on the river, on our third night from Pucallpa to Iquitos, and it's around 11 at night, when all of a sudden there is all this commotion, and everyone starts running around and grabbing life jackets. Not a good sign, generally speaking. So I get ...
Une lancha dans la jungle
... de commerce pour ces communautés qui vendent leur production au gérant (bananes, oranges, porcs, poules...) qui ensuite les revendra a Iquitos. Aussi le bateau apporte des produits de 1ere nécessitée comme du riz, de l'huile... Chaque arrivée même ...
Iquitos!
Well, if we had any feeling that Peru felt sort of familiar, I´d say those are gone. We arrived in Iquitos today- a pretty amazing descent into the jungle- to be greeted by throngs of taxi and moto drivers rushing us like kids to an ice cream ...
Excursion dans la jungle, 2eme jour
Nous partons vers 6h, observer les singes et les oiseaux. Le matin aussi les singes hurleurs hurlent. Les guides tuent un serpent corail qui rodait près du lodge (l'un des plus dangereux au monde, mortel en 30 min). La brume matinale envahit encore la ...
from deepest darkest Peru !
... 9 to 10 hours. we watched it slowly turn on to a 10 hour, 11 hour, 12 hour, 13 hour ..... WE eventually got to Iquitos after 15 HOURS !!!! to be met by a swarm of highly persistent taxi drivers who wouldnt stop their banter even after you shouted at them ...
Journee tranquille a Iquitos
Nous faisons un tour par le marche de Belén. Dans la rue des shamans ou Lucie s'achète de l'Ajo Sacha, nous rencontrons Aline, l'anthropologue qui part demain pour sa communauté d'étude. Je passe l'après midi a me reposer a l'auberge. Le soir nous ...