Iquitos Lodge

... a week at a language school and 5 days at an Amazon lodge, then off to Lima, Peru, and another 5 days at an Amazon Lodge. After that, I join an organised Tucan tour from Lima to Rio: http://www.tucantravel.com/tour/overview/coast-to-coast/sce/?wl=

... months salary for most people) drives the hunters to go out and capture more to sell in the market. There are many different lodge options around Iquitos and after much research we settled on a mid-range one in terms of price that was quite a way from ...

... . Again new bird species and our local squirrel monkey troupe were once again playing in the trees. On our way back to Iquitos we stopped at Monkey Island, another sanctuary, but this time were bombarded by over 30 monkeys of 8 different species. This ...

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, ...

... 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 ...

... Lima on the friday night and then found myself back at the airport on Saturday morning at 4am! I had an early flight out to Iquitos, which is a small town on the banks of the Amazon River. The Amazon river is immense; you just cant believe its width. I ...

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 ...

... loss of habitat. On the down side, the river banks are populated with villages the entire 100 kilometer distance between Iquitos and Otorongo Lodge, and these all grow domestic crops, including corn, sugar cane and rice. Cattle graze in grassland that is ...

... those, but we didn´t have time. Then there were the tours like the one we picked - in a rustic jungle lodge on an Amazon tributary about 100kms from Iquitos, lots of protected forest around, treks into the jungle 3 or 4 times a day, led by a guide in a ...

... Graeme on Myles' Ipod touch through Skype using free airport wifi and talked to them for ten minutes before boarding the plane to Iquitos. Unfortunately it was too early to call my dad. The plane ride was really neat because you could see the blanket of ...

Flew into Iquitos from Lima, Iquitos is the largest most isolated city in the world and you can only get there by boat or by plane, there is no road connecting it to the outside world. The weather is hot and humid, though not quite as hot as Chs in the ...