Iquitos Hostels - Reviews and Rates

Aug 17 Monday
This must be the year of the flies as far as the jungle is concerned because we woke up to no mosquitoes and a zillion big super-sized flies buzzing around. By the number of flies around, you’d think something big must have died nearby, but the locals didn’t seem to notice them.
After whopper pancakes for ...

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 motorbikes and mototaxis making it very noisy. It´s very hot and humid - occasionally the heat...

The cosmic joke today was the same thing happened with rain that happened yesterday. However, it stopped after half an hour so we got a half hour of birdwatching (hawks, falcons, vultures, parrots, mascaws) before it started to rain again and we were driven back to the lodge (the birds hide from the rain, we had our raincoats). Then it really st...

This data for Iquitos Peru is from the NASA Langley Atmospheric Science Data Research Center. Latitude: Minus 3.75 degrees south of the equator. The altitude above sea level is approximately 350 feet. The Coordinated Universal Time of Peru is UTC-5, the same as Florida and New York, Eastern Standard Time. The time difference between the longest ...

We spent the morning relaxing and talking to the other passengers. Erin became friends with Rosemary (the bookkeeper), who is 24 years old and works on the Eduardo boats most days of the week. She gave Erin her dolphin ring to remember Peru by and in return Erin gave her her cheap temporary wedding ring. We arrived in Iquitos at 4:00 and found a...

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 several monkeys, a tapir, an ant-eater and a jaguar. The preserve is run by an Austrian woman tha...

Adam here,well where to begin. Best start where we left off in Iquitos. We went to Belen Market which is a very old place in Iquitos.All the buildings are on stilts cos the area floods every year but right now its dry. :D Its a dirty smelly place but good fun. We had heard that you could get monkey to eat here, so we tried to find some. A guy to...

Buenos, April 23, 2005 I write you from Iquitos once again. Or as we like to call it "Icky Toes", which actually describes the city quite nicely. I am having a wonderful time and I keep viewing reminders of where I am on this Earth. I realize how lucky I am to be here. I don´t always feel so removed because in the cities their are internet cafes...