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Iquitos Arrival Transfer
Please ensure you arrive in Iquitos before 9:00 AM today. Upon arrival, you will be greeted at the airport's arrivals lounge and transferred to the city. If you are already in Iquitos, we will arrange your pick-up from your hotel to our office. This time will also be used for any last-minute shopping and necessary coordination.
Transfer to Iquitos Amazon Lodge
Transfer to the port for a fast 3-hour boat ride upriver from Iquitos on the Amazon River. Upon arrival, get settled in to your lodge and enjoy lunch.
NOTE: Our boats leave Iquitos every day at 9:30 AM, arriving at the lodge at 12:30 PM.
Activities in the Amazon Jungle (
Go on the Leoncito Hike, where you appreciate the immense variety of flora around the lodge. On this walk, you can taste the water that Uncaria tomentosa (cat's claw) has within its vines - some say it can cure cancer and AIDS. You'll also be amazed at how huge the ceiba tree is.
In addition, you will see the world's smallest monkey, the pigmy marmoset, and the squirrel and tamarin monkeys. If you're lucky, you'll see the howler monkey, whose deafening roar can be heard many miles away. After watching a sunset over the forest of mirrors, head back to the lodge for dinner.
In the evening, take a boat ride to see caimans, nocturnal birds and mammals.
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Overnight in Iquitos Jungle Lodge
Spend the night in your jungle lodge.
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Activities in the Amazon Jungle
Have an early breakfast to charge your batteries for your boat trip to the Sapote lagoon and to Laguna Moena where lazy bears and monkeys are seen. Catch different kind of fish, including the famous piranha in the Corriente and Purura lagoons (being more difficult in March, April and May). This is an area that has many strangler vines, being the favourite spot of the bird "hoatzin" or shansho. This colourful bird looks like a prehistoric bird because it has three claws on the middle joint of the wing. Return to the lodge for a dinner buffet. At night, you do a night walk in search of huge frogs, anaconda's favourite food.
In addition to seeing tarantulas, it is worth clarifying that despite the bad reputation, they are not dangerous to humans. Once you catch any piranhas, we recommend you let them go. If you like, we will take the largest piranha you catch to the lodge so that the chef can prepare it for dinner. The rest are set free.
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Overnight in Iquitos Jungle Lodge
Spend the night in your jungle lodge.
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Activities in the Amazon Jungle
Enjoy breakfast and then cruise the Amazon River, where you will experience the most magical moment of your trip, which is to swim in the same river where the pink and grey dolphins live. You can see them, but don't expect to touch. On the way back to the lodge, you will see the biggest aquatic plant in the world, the famous Victoria Regia. It is also easy to see iguanas.
Enjoy lunch at the lodge before going on a boat trip to the lakes Purura and Corrientes to catch different kinds of fish, including the famous piranha (being more difficult in March, April and May). After lunch, spot wild animals before going on a night walk in search of huge frogs, anaconda's favourite food. In addition to seeing tarantulas, it is worth clarifying that despite their bad reputation, they are not dangerous to humans.
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Overnight in Iquitos Jungle Lodge
Spend the night in your jungle lodge.
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Activities in the Amazon Jungle
After breakfast, go for a boat trip to Lake Sapote to see different birds like parrots, jacanas, kingfishers, herons, panguanas, partridges, pigeons, cormorants, horned screamers, orneros and then move to the other end of the Moena lagoon to see sloths and monkeys, squirrels and dusky titi monkeys, etc.
Iquitos Drop-off
Your experience of the jungle comes to an end after lunch, and you will cruise three hours back to Iquitos and be dropped off at your hotel or the airport. Please plan to fly out of Iquitos after 6pm.