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Iquitos Slideshow
Iquitos
Travel Blogs from Iquitos, Peru
Muyuna (140km deep into the Amazon)
... Our flight path took us over miles after mile of Amazon jungle. The vastness of the place was immediately apparent with Iquitos a small dot from the planes vantage point. Once on land we walked from the plane towards the small terminal, across ...
Half a Million People: No Road Out
Iquitos is the worlds largest city that has no road access in or out. The nearest road is in Yurimagus a 48 hour float down the river (obviously longer going upriver). The city's existence dates back to the rubber trees grown deep in the jungle and ...
Road Trip Iquitos Peru
... of iquitos is quite loud from all the mototaxis and motorcycles and its hot here. Like 90 degrees all the time. Everything here is little more expensive than lima because I believe most things are imported because iquitos is and island. Great ...
Iquitos
Iquitos is a neat city located on the Amazon River in Peru. It is the biggest city in the world without a road connection, to get there you have to fly or take a boat. Boats from the Atlantic can make it all the way up to Iquitos, which is pretty ...
El Mercado MAYHEM!
... a motorcycle, to the left 2 chickens tied to a motorcycle. We had only a short time in Nauta before we headed back to Iquitos so I wandered into the market hoping to get some good photos. Not surprised, I discovered things I never imagined! Monkey meat, ...
Welcome to the jungle
... half the size it used to be and it isn't even that much fresher but at least ants don't get stuck in it anymore! Iquitos really feels like a jungle city especially when you look out over the river. We made friends with a small parakeet that lives in the ...
Welcome to the Jungle
Upon arrival at our hostel on a balmy morning in Iquitos we quickly became acquainted with the realities of life in the jungle. Mad Mick, a raging English expat running a three-dollar-a-night flophouse, is the editor of the English language ...
Saturday Night´s Alright for Playing with Pagans
... I was hoping to sample both of these substances out in the wild in a Matses village, my ongoing ayahuasca rituals outside of Iquitos prevent me from going anywhere for at least the next week. What is more, Jhonny has worked as an assistant for ...
It´s jungle time!
We´re in the middle of the amazonian jungle at last! We have been staying in a town called Iquitos which is the largest city in the world with no roads out - it´s linked by waterways and air only. Consequently there are very few cars here, mostly small ...
Dawn on the Amazon
... ; a very good idea. Of course the question is...is there a market? Few people come to these villages and even in Iquitos there are not hordes of tourists waiting to buy. And there are already so many vendors there! As I left there, ...
Boat Trip down the Amazon
... trip, mostly punctuated by reading, lots of jungle watching, and just admiring the river. After 3 days, we arrived in Iquitos. The city was surprisingly clean and organized, but is overrun with the Motocarros, the three wheel taxis. They´re ...
Iquitos, die Jungelmetropole
... tagsüber hitzig-verschlafene Stadt, die sich, sobald es kühler wurde, in einen Ameisenbau verwandelte. Einst war Iquitos das Zentrum des Kautschukanbaus, und die vielen verwetterten Häuser mit Portugiesischen Fliesen geben der Stadt einen Hauch von ...
Jun 17, 2010
Sweltering
... had some chicken stir fry thing, which was good, and am proud to say that I`ve kept it down! My stomach must be feeling a little bit better. Thank god. I hope. I so can`t wait to get back in Lima; Canadians just aren`t designed for the heat of ...
Rumble in the Jungle
... masses by a very friendly taxi man/rep for a hostel we were being winged through the streets of the surprisingly large and bustling Iquitos. Our hostel was called La Golondora and even sported a swimming pool. Not too bad for 15 soles each. ...
Us & Them
... to 'save the reputation of the local women'. This was in response to an article which had named the women of Iquitos as the 'easiest in Peru'. Predictably this poorly thought policy was not popular with the youths or those in the entertainment or tourism ...
Headed to the Amazon
June 13, 2006 Just wanted to let everyone know that we have arrived safely in Iquitos. Our day started out in Lima and was very low key. We went for a walk along the Pacific Ocean and then ate lunch. We had cebiche and soup--very good seafood. We ...
Welcome to the Jungle
... the rubber out to transport was a lot easier! But in those 30 years, a lot changed for the region. The little village of Iquitos became one of the richest cities in the world, even inspiring some slightly mad Frenchman to ship out an entire house made of ...
A gringo in Iquitos
... and wondered where the bloody hell I was - Then the memory banks fired up the little bulb in me head and I remembered I was in Iquitos... I managed to get here intact with all my luggage, which had spent the day at Lima airport - The tossers at ...
Snaking down Earth's pulmonary arteries
... nice day and left when the rain stopped. I've probably just been added to his group of "typical tourists, always rude". Peru 1 : Me Nil. I arrived in Iquitos and selected what I thought was the best tour company in town for a tour to the jungle. While ...
Welcome to the Jungle
Travels to the jungle were via twin 150Hp Evenrude engines 100km downstream from Iquitos. Iquitos is the worlds largest city disconnected from anywhere by road. (pop. 600,000). People bring in monkeys, sloths and all kinds of bird to market for ...
Weekend in a jungle city
After an amazing boat journey through Amazonia, we arrived in Iquitos less than a week after we set off from Quito. We were actually on time and everything was going to plan. Unbelievable! Having been dropped off on the ...
mukokutane Leishmaniose ?
hmmm....haette ja eigtl schon 3 tage nach ende der klinischen behandlung in lima sein sollen, UM ZU TESTEN OBS AUCH WIRKLICH WEG IST. Hab ich nocht getan...jetzt hab ich auf der rechten Wange einen Fleck der die selbe Farbe hat wie der auf dem Ruecken. ...
The majestic week
... we lay for 3 days sipping on rum watching the beautiful amazon pass us by while laying in hammocks. Unbeliable. We arrive into iquitos and was offered a hostel for 3 bucks. It was horrible, but cheap. We made reservations with a tour company to ...
The Amazon
... easily again and felt full of energy. We had good flights from La Paz to Iquitos with a transit in Lima airport. Iquitos is in northeast Peru and can only be reached by air or boat. It is generally considered the most populous city in the world ...
Iquitos
... es super laut.Trotzdem...lustige Stadt und ich bin froh da gewesen zu sein....sehr nette lebenslustige Leute leben dort.... Von Iquitos aus wollten wir den Amazonas flussaufwärts nach Ecuador mit nem Frachtboot fahren....macht so gut wie keiner und ...
Alles fliesst
Hmmm...here i am, back again. Ueberraschenderweise nicht in Lima, wie geplant, sondern in Iquitos, nahe Brasilien. Eine ganz besondere Stadt. 400000 Einwohner aber keine Strasse zu anderen Staedten. Dafuer taegliche Schiffe nach Brasilien, Pucallpa und ...
Welcome to the jungle
... Amazon river and a deviation on the Yanayacu river (an affluent of the Amazon) we reached our lodge, 140 Km far from the main town, Iquitos, the only city in the world you can only access either by plane or by boat (at least this is what they say and we ...
Excursion dans la jungle, 1er jour
A 7h, nous prenons la route pour Nauta d'où nous embarquons sur un pecpec, le bateau typique couvert de feuilles de palmier et pousse par une petite hélice reliée a un moteur de tondeuse par une longue tige de 2m. Nous descendons ensuite le Marañon ...