Discover Iquitos

As the largest city in the world without road access, Iquitos can only be reached by plane or boat and has long served as the most important starting point for expeditions into the Peruvian Amazon rainforest.

Numerous eco-lodges along the Amazon and Napo rivers offer guided night walks, canoe trips and canopy walkways where caimans, pink river dolphins and an almost unimaginable variety of bird species can be observed.

The floating district of Belén, with its houses built on stilts and rafts, reflects the region's original river life, while the adjacent market offers exotic fruits, fish and traditional medicinal herbs from the rainforest.

The nearby butterfly and animal rescue center nurses rescued sloths, ocelots and tapirs and gives visitors a rare close encounter with Amazon wildlife in a protected setting.

Since no roads lead to the city, the airport is the only practical way to arrive; it is served several times daily from Lima with a flight time of around two hours.

As the largest city in the world without road access, Iquitos can only be reached by plane or boat and has long served as the most important starting point for expeditions into the Peruvian Amazon rainforest.

Numerous eco-lodges along the Amazon and Napo rivers offer guided night walks, canoe trips and canopy walkways where caimans, pink river dolphins and an almost unimaginable variety of bird species can be observed.

The floating district of Belén, with its houses built on stilts and rafts, reflects the region's original river life, while the adjacent market offers exotic fruits, fish and traditional medicinal herbs from the rainforest.