Our jungle lodge

Welcome to the jungle...

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September 20th 2008
With hardly any time to recover from our trekking we flew to Iquitos, in the Peruvian jungle. Iquitos is the largest city in the world which is not accessible by road, and we spent a day or so there before heading up the river to our jungle lodge which was inside Pacaya-Samiria national park at the point where the Amazon river is born. Iquitos itself is a bit manic, with thousands of tuc-tucs ( ... read more

South America » Peru » Loreto » Iquitos » Amazon Rainforest

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Ancient Peru was the seat of several prominent Andean civilizations, most notably that of the Incas whose empire was captured by the Spanish conquistadors in 1533. Peruvian independence was declared in 1821, and remaining Spanish forces defeated in 1... ... read more