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Travel stories from Iquitos

Collection of 15 travel stories from Iquitos, Peru. Written by your friends on the road.

Picture from story Jungle Rule No. 2 - DO NOT touch the trees.  Spiders and snakes live there.

Jungle Rule No. 2 - DO NOT touch the trees. Spiders and snakes live there.
2009-10-31, Iquitos, Peru. By: dilleybug

Our second day we went Caiman hunting and caught a little baby. we drove around in the dark for nearly two hours when our guide gave some sort of inaudible signal to the boat driver. ... side note, ...

 
Picture from story Jungle Rule No. 1 - When in doubt. Run like Hell.

Jungle Rule No. 1 - When in doubt. Run like Hell.
2009-10-28, Iquitos, Peru. By: dilleybug

After an epic two week journey, about 30 hours of bus, combi and taxi time, 60 hours of river boat time, and numerous hours of waiting about, we arrived at our jungle lodge. Captains Log...´´The ...

 
Picture from story You will know it is me, because I speak English.

You will know it is me, because I speak English.
2009-10-27, Iquitos, Peru. By: dilleybug

We started from Yurimaguas and boarded a cruise type ship called Eduardo I. After a friend got his camera stolen i was a bit sketched out when stephen left to go to the bathroom on night 2. i told hi...

 
Traveler julieanna

Fresh from the Amazon jungle...
2009-07-07, Iquitos, Peru. By: julieanna

My outreach team and I have just returned to modern civilization after 8 days and nights in the Amazon. We visited 5 villages around the area where the Amazon river begins. The only way to access thes...

 
Traveler SurAmerica

Life in the jungle
2009-07-11, iquitos, Peru. By: SurAmerica

For the past eight days team South America has been visiting four different modern villages on the edge of the Amazon River. For a couple of the villages it was the first time they had ever had missio...

 
Picture from story The Remainder of Our Time in Iquitos

The Remainder of Our Time in Iquitos
2008-07-27, Iquitos, Peru. By: PMPeru

While we intended to get back to posting to this blog, that intention kind of died out over the course of our time in Peru. We could either spend time on the internet, or take in more sights....

 
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Our first 6 days in Iquitos
2008-07-24, Iquitos, Peru. By: PMPeru

Upon arrival in the most isolated town in the world on the 19th, only accessible by plane or boat, we were in desperate for fresh clothes, ordering a Taxi to the Lavanderia (Laundry Mat) to drop off o...

 
Traveler saradekker

Iquitos and Amazon
2008-05-22, Iquitos, Peru. By: saradekker

Iquitos, Peru Recap: Three weeks in Peru. Spent approximately two weeks in Iquitos and one week in the jungle/villages. Iquitos: Some people live in homes made of concrete walls and thatch...

 
Traveler chaveiro

Tarzan and Jane back from the jungle!
2007-05-12, Iquitos, Peru. By: chaveiro

Hola all of you who faithfully read this stuff, Iquitos is where we are now... still in Peru but a different place than Cuzco. We are in a hot and humid place in the jungle. I'm in an interne...

 
Traveler reinadios

Return from the Amazon
2007-05-12, Iquitos, Peru. By: reinadios

So we´ve just returned from our adventures in the Amazon jungle region here in Peru. I´d say we're all no worse for the wear, minus a few liters of blood from the hundreds of mosquito bites that we re...

 
Traveler hatzisp01

Jungle! and the last message
2006-08-04, Iquitos, Peru. By: hatzisp01

We have just come out from the jungle and have only just survived one and a half days on a cruise down an amazon tributary...we sunbathed the whole way and also played the most stupid card game ever w...

 
Traveler aw80sa

The Go! Team
2006-05-12, Iquitos, Peru. By: aw80sa

Here are just a few short bios to get you connected with the team. Pictures to come shortly. Katie "Ghost" Rider Katie Coley Rider is a 23 year old artist from the suburbs of Chigago. She loves ...

 
Picture from story Out of the Jungle

Out of the Jungle
2006-05-12, Iquitos, Peru. By: aw80sa

We made it! 2 weeks in the jungle was nothing! Bring on the Sahara Desert! I could recap all we did, but does anyone really care? You do? Well, too bad, I am too lazy to tell you everything. The boat ...

 
Traveler aw80sa

I lied
2006-04-27, Iquitos, Peru. By: aw80sa

Well, I lied again, we do get internet. It is hot here. Very hot. We saw the Amazon, its big. Uhh...we leave for a 30 hour boat ride up the river tonight. We're there for 16 days I think. Should be qu...

 
Picture from story A trip to the Amazon

A trip to the Amazon
2005-05-09, Iquitos, Peru. By: RooinPeru

Monday morning, and up at at em real early!!! Pickup at 5am, and a crazy crazy ride to the airport! Away safely, and upon arriving in Iquitos, it was hot hot hot! There was a man with a sign sayin...

 


 
 

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