Whenever I thought of the Amazon, I imagined green thick jungle intersected by brown snakelike rivers and indigenous tribes. Iquitos is the other Amazon that travelers are not aware of but that is also a part of the Amazonian experience. Iquitos is the largest city in the world that is not reachable by road, it is only accessible by boat (couple of days from the nearest road linked city) or by plane.
We took the plane option and the contrast could not have been bigger. A flight from Lima with a stopover in Pucallpa brought us from concrete jungle to real jungle within 2 hours. Read More