Iquitos Peru and the Belen Market

Iquitos Peru is surrounded by grand rivers and lush rainforest. This charming city has been my home port for adventure cruises on the magnificent Amazon River for three years. Iquitos has no roads connecting to other cities making it the largest, most isolated city on any continent. Please allow me to share my love for this frontier town with you.

The best way to experience the most picturesque area in Iquitos, the Barrio de Belen, is from a boat during the high water season. The houses are built on balsa rafts and float up and down as the water level changes. The floating houses are laid out in streets of water.

This area is known as the Venice of the Amazon. Everyone has a canoe or llevo-llevo with a peque-peque motor. We like to cruise through slow and easy watching life being lived in a different way. One of my boats was built here so I know the neighborhood very well. This is one of the most interesting places I have ever been and I think you would love it to.

To read more about Iquitos and Belen you could click these links;

Welcome to Iquitos Peru

Or

You Could Love Iquitos Peru

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Captains Blog

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Dawn on the Amazon Tours and Cruises

Thank you for your interest in my photography and my home port of Iquitos Peru.

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items are from between 29 Nov 2005 & 06 Apr 2007.