Iquitos Ranches - Reviews and Rates

We spent the last three days on Eduardo VIII, a cargo/passenger boat. We are on our way to Iquitos, a northeastern Peruvian city nestled in the Amazon rainforest and inaccessible by road. The boats run from a town called Yurimaguas, and down the Rio Maranon. This river later leads into the Amazon, to Iquitos, and then through Brazil and...

Maybe all ex-pats (people who have relocated to another country, for retirement/work/evading the law) are a little eccentric. After all, it is not the most common path in life to leave behind your home country and lay down roots in a totally different culture. What struck me about Iquitos was the interesting concentration of people from the Unit...

By Karl Sickafus Narvon, Pennsylvania What do you get when you take a boat, fill it with a couple dozen American tourists, strap their ankles with snake gaiters then set it on the Amazon river at Iquitos, Peru, and give it a nudge upstream towards the Pacaya Samiria Reserve? Well, you get a week full of experiences, images and memories that coul...

This series of posts should help answer some of the questions I get asked all the time. What is the exchange rate? How much for a gallon of gas in Iquitos Peru? How much does it cost to outfit a major Amazon expedition? How long does it take to get organized? How do you know how much pure water to stock? How much food? How much does your insuran...

After working sooo hard for sooo long I decided to get the hell outta town the second I could! Hmmmm, what could be far removed from civilization, an adventure, and relatively cheap? South America baby, here I came! I arrived in Lima at night and promptly fell asleep. The next mrning I went to a travel agent to book a flight to Iquitos. That´s a...

From Iquitos take a 4 day safari deep into the amazon jungle, a trip to remeber forever.