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Iquitos Slideshow
Iquitos
Travel Blogs from Iquitos, Peru
So Hot!
... to the back of motorcycles. It`s basically the most popular form of transportation here. In fact, the only cars I`ve yet to see in Iquitos were the taxis I`ve been in, provided by Muyuna. So I´ve just got time to kill, until 4 or so. Going to attempt ...
Marche et quartier de Belén
Nous partons tous vers 7h visiter le marche et le quartier de Belén. Tous d'abord, le marche est assez impressionnant. On y trouve de nombreux produits bizarres comme des tortues, du caïman, des escargots géant et plein d'animaux vivants (paresseux, ...
Belen Market & Floating City
One of the neighborhoods in Iquitos is called Belen and is famous for its market. But what is also interesting about Belen is that much of the city is situated on the Rio Itaya, one of the many Amazon tributaries, with the houses built on floats to ...
Bed Shaped
... weird things about the place is just how incredibly noisy it is. Because there are few cars (no road connects Iquitos to the rest of Peru), there's a profusion of "tuk-tuk" style motorcycle taxis (called "mosquitos") and thanks to their air-cooled ...
Hola Amazonía
... auf stelzen gebaut oder sind schwimmend, da zwischen april und august der wasserstand um mehrere meter steigt. in iquitos findet auch alljaehrlich ein dreitaegiger ruderwettbewerb statt, an dem ein meiner kollegen hier jaehrlich teilnimmt und sogar schon ...
Dinner on the Boulevard
After my first bad impression of Iquitos, I have to say I have grown to like this city somewhat. It's noisy and dirty...but the people are incredibly friendly and kind. And it feels like the kind of place it wouldn't take long to feel at ...
Heading into the Amazon Jungle
... in jungle leaves! On Wednesday we headed off into the jungle, and stayed at a lodge about an hours boat ride downriver from Iquitos. We first met Fransisco our guide who gave us a short tour of Iquitos (there arent enough sights to warrant a long tour ...
Pink dolphins
... in which people have died. In my naivety/ignorance I never imagined that this kind of politics would make it so far as the jungle but I guess there is no escape. Elections are coming soon in Peru so it will be interesting to witness the voting system ...
Huachuma Cactus & Mother Ayahuasca Ceremonies
... town and felt like new people in a whole new world. Huachuma Ceremony With Aeli & Yasmina Location: Botanical Gardens near Iquitos This day Nadine and i decided to go down different paths. The night before the boys Ik and Jamie ...
There is no escape from the Omnipotent
... mouths. If you want a greater example of the clash of civilisations read on. One does not need to look beyond the borders of Peru to see a clear case of two civilisations, so different, so diverse, living within the confines of one state. On our second ...
Amazon Safari
From Iquitos take a 4 day safari deep into the amazon jungle, a trip to remeber ...
The monkey ate my baby
After 4 mornings of early morning/late night dance music, boat metal adjustments that pinged every time someone walked over certain sections, suspected intentional wall banging on our cabin and the little faces that looked through our curtains ...
Jungle Boogie.. da da da da daaaa etc and so forth
... exactly like tuk-tuks, so all this gave it a very Asian feel and we were loving it. We had a pretty uneventful 2 days in Iquitos before we headed out to the jungle proper. We did do a city tour though which entailed going to an area called Belen where ...
4 days in the Amazon jungle
Whilst we were in Peru we decided to visit the Amazon, and took 2 hour plane ride to the city of Iquitos. It´s a city, isolated in the jungle. There are major roads there but the only way you can get in or out is by plane, or by boat. The boat ...
Welcome to the Jungle!
... overnight Jungle Trip to a remote part of the jungle - most of the lodges were near to Iquitos resembling "Jungle Theme Parks" with swimming pools and volleyball pitches! But we wanted a more authentic experience. ...
From Edmonton-Toronto-Lima, Peru-Iquitos (Amazon)
... The next day Guillermo again drove us amongst the crazy commuters of morning rush hour to the airport where we set off for Iquitos. Arriving in Iquitos, our tour operator had a car waiting for us as we made our way into the city. The humidity nearly ...
Muyuna Lodge, The Amazon
We had the choice of a 2 hour flight to Iquitos or 3 days on a boat experiencing the real jungle life with very little facilities and an abundance of mosquitoes. As we disembarked the plane the heat and humidity hit us immediately. We were met ...
Iquitos and the Heart of the Amazon Basin
Traveling from Guayaquil, Ecuador to Iquitos, Peru involved two flights covering a distance of 1,350 miles, and took all day. We left foggy Guayaquil before dawn, and stepped off the plane in the heart of the Amazon jungle after night fall. We were met at ...
Sep 23, 2010
Sweaty City on the Amazon River
... largest market in South America, where literally everything was on sale. We spent most of our time in an ecolodge downriver of Iquitos. The wildlife here wasn't as good as in Rurrenabaque, but the Amazon River was amazing. The river is up to a mile ...
Playing Footy In Belen - The Venice Of The Amazon
... (between Galvez and Libertad). They leave when they have four passengers and cost 10 soles for the ninety minute journey. Book Shop in Iquitos – SBS (Special Book Services), Calle Nauta 248, Iquitos, gpoclin@sbs.com.pe , Web: www.sbs.com.pe . ...
Gorman´s Jaunt Begins, Preparations in Iquitos
... and people are out and about all the time enjoying each others company. Pizza and chicken shops are very popular. Iquitos is apparently the flesh capital of Peru and many young girls are dating much older men here, it is very much a part of the culture ...
Ayahuasca, Sapo and Nu-Nu Medicine, Jungle People
... aid and i used the samll amount of saline solution that ni had in my pack to clean it. On returning to Iquitos we hit the Yellow Rose of Texas restaurant for breakfast where we all ate ourselves silly and relished the flavour sensations ...
6 days in the Amazon jungle
Will add correct entry later. I apologise I do not have much time to access the internet these days. Myself my partner Clint, and our mates Matt and Jasper took a chance with a local guide Miguel who offered us adventure and an very reasonable price. We ...
Motorcycle madness and mosquitos
... they just speak extremely fast and pronounce a lot of words differently. I had a lot of trouble understanding even basic phrases! Iquitos has an unusual kind of energy that grabs you, and it´s kind of intoxicating at first, but after one night, ...
Travelogue - Yurimaguas to Iquitos on a boat
... in the gringo section, which was just as well, as going it alone could have been very difficult.. And so off down the greatest river of them all. First stop will be Iquitos, which should take 2 days and 200000000000000 mosquitos and black flies ...
Amazonas mal ganz nah!
... einzeln durchkauen....aber nen paar Bilder anhängen ;-) Zurück in Lagunas haben wir am nächsten Abend ein Boot nach Iquitos genommen. Iquitos ist die größte Stadt der Welt die nicht mit dem Auto zu erreichen ist nur mit dem Boot oder dem ...