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Iquitos Slideshow
Iquitos
Travel Blogs from Iquitos, Peru
Spanish practices
... , we´ve tested our new knowledge with restaurants, taxis, bus station, hotels, and an elderly cabellero on the plane (quien conoce Iquitos y cuanto cuesta un taxi al centro). This has been a good decision. People here rarely speak English, and why ...
Welcome to Iquitos?
... no small part due to the logistics and costs of transporting the rubber 5000 Km. to down the Amazon. I walked around Iquitos a bit taking in the sights... Like most Latin American towns and cities, there is a central Plaza, the Plaza ...
Headed to the JUNGLE!!
Cánt write much! Flight to Iquitos this morning...into the jungle! I´ve bathed in 100% deet!! Roommate is cool, very cool, she´s a doctor from Wisconsin. If I get sick, I´m in good hands!! I went out last night with the group which happens to be much ...
CZ z Coca do Iquitos ( Noemova archa)
... dost kruty…. Nakonec bylo aji trochu smutny opoustet lod ktera byla nasim domovem na 5 noci a kterou Peta v pulce proklinala. V Iquitos jsme se ubytovali v peknem hotelu s teplou vodou :- ) a velice pomalym internetem. V sobotu vyrazime na 2 noci ...
Iquitos
... action against mozzies/malaria or if an infestation of misc jungle creatures has taken place. If I'm brutal there isn't much to Iquitos other than its unique/peculiar location. It is near to the Amazon and the jungle. It is the largest town ...
Iquitos, Peru: tourist destination in the jungle
... . There are some pavillions and it is very popular with the local youth, who come to swim, play football and volleyball. In Iquitos itself, the ‘floating city’ of Belén is definitely worth a visit. Because of the rising water levels, the ...
Arrivee a Iquitos
... l'appel des cuisines : une série de coups sur la tuyauterie indiquant que le repas est près. Vers 10h, nous arrivons a Iquitos (130 m, 4 degrés de l'équateur) qui parait gigantesque. Le port est un immense bordel de barques, de pirogues, de lanchas et ...
Its a Jungle out there
After a bit of shopping around and hard bartering we booked ourself onto a 3day jungle tour, with a company called Loving Light. There were only 4 of us which was good and we knew the other two from our previous boat trip. First there was a 3hour ...
Welcome to The Jungle
... set off about 5m before calling it quits and hailing a moto, it was at least 200m and the heat was brutal. The flying dog in Iquitos is the latest establishment of this chain, only 6 months old, 30s a night and I had a dorm all to myself. The kitchen at ...
Deep in the Amazon
... over 120 hummingbirds alone. The third largest number of mammals species found throughout the world come from Peru, most from the Peruvian Amazon. Around 20% of the world's known butterflies reside in the Peruvian Amazon. ...
The Jungle City
... been repossessed and he was having a bad day. Thankfully, they only finished half their meal and left. Iquitos is also apparently the "flesh capital" of Peru and due to the heat and humidity, scantily-dressed girls are the order of the day, very similar ...
In search of the "underwear ripper" on the Amazon
... Expeditions (www.junglex.com) of Iquitos, Peru, teamed up to expedite our week in the Amazon basin. We boarded our boat in Iquitos, Peru full of excitement, anticipation and curiosity, as to what the week ahead might hold. Most of us knew nothing of the ...
The intention behind Human Sacrifices
... 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 ...
Allpahuayo Mishana Reserve: it ain't Disneyland!
... tribe that used to live in this area and from which Iquitos got its name. The lady told us about the Legend of Iquitos. Her granddaughter translated her story into Spanish. In short, it is the ancient story about how the Iquito natives were chased from ...
EN Coca to Iquitos on river Napo
... from Coca to Rocafuerte (10hours) than try to organise small boat to Patoja (1hour) and from Pantoja to catch big boat to Iquitos (4 days). We found out straight away that boat from Coca leaves every morning at 7 and also that the big boat to Iquitos ...
Amazon Rainforest
Going up to the Peruvian Amazon was a last minute decision. After Paul had persuaded Nicola to go we booked the flights and "Great Amazon Adventure" from Cuzco. That was it no going back and we're so glad we went - it was amazing. Even Nicola thought it ...
A Trip Into the Pacaya Samiria Reserve
... spent! Ricardo picked me up at nine and soon we were on our way to Nauta, a small town 100 kilometres (about 65 miles) from Iquitos. I was surprised at the excellent quality of the road. It only took two hours to get there. In Nauta, our boat ...
Finally in Peru
... amazon jungle at immigration, and they´ve taken our passports. Which they gave back by the way. So, anyway, we reached Iquitos and found ourselves a hotel. Couldn´t possibly stay in a hostel after Manaus and Tabatinga - we just wanted some luxury ...
Into the depths of the Amazon jungle
... surprising they just keep old vehicles going rather than getting new ones. Also its isolation makes the cost of living in Iquitos higher than anywhere else in Peru. We boarded a huge old river boat for our trip up the river, but there were only about 10 ...
Iquitos... The Amazon Jungle
From Lima we flew to Peru´s Amazonian capital... Iquitos. From there we left for a jungle lodge on the Amazon river.... name: Cumaceba Lodge. Even though the place could hold nearly 80 people we had the ENTIRE lodge to ourselves!!! Twas just McGarry, ...
Welcome to the Jungle
... the resident mouse indicated that the class had faded from the building. Next day we had a little explore round Iquitos. Felt very different to Andean Peru, and the hundreds of tuk tuks made it seem what we imagined Asia seems like. Very hot and muggy ...
All things hammock
... day I followed his advise and too a two sole motocarro to puerto pescadores, which is an absolute toilet, actually, all the ports in Iquitos are smelly, polluted toilets. I only had to ask one guy which boats are going to leticia, he pointed to the Carlos ...
Ayahuasca
Over the past few years a small cottage industry has developed in Iquitos, catering to Westerners who want to experience Ayahuasca, a medicinal brew prepared from a jungle vine found in the tropical regions of South America. Before coming ...
En el reino de los delfines rosados
... and I had two tickets, one to Lima (to avoid wasting 21 hours in the bus), and an incredibly cheap return ticket between Lima and Iquitos! Two trouble-free flights later and I found myself in Iquitos. I really don't know why I do that to myself. I can't ...
Welcome to the Jungle
Hey Everyone, Well, after a really difficult goodbye to Ashley and an amazing flight 3 hours north of Lima, I am in Iquitos, Peru. Iquitos is actually the world's largest city that cannot be accessed by a road. That's right... only boats and planes ...
Northern Highlands and into the Jungle
... at the community for two or three days, but I ended up staying for almost a week before going back to Iquitos, my last destination in Peru. Peru has quietly crept up to become the country in which I've spent the most time (although that will soon change ...
