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Lima - Cruise in the Peruvian Amazon - Iquitos.
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| Suggested Itinerary Includes: | Domestic flights within Peru
2 nights in Lima
6 nights cruising in the Peruvian Amazon with full board
1 night in Iquitos
Breakfast daily (most hotels)
Hotel taxes
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| Lima City (24 Hotels options in Lima City) |  | The once-called City of Kings, founded in 1535, is the gateway to Peru's main tourist attractions. It is a city of fine museums and magnificent pre-Columbian collections, such as the Gold Museum, the National Archaeology and Anthropology Museum, the Amaro Museum, Museo de la Nacion etc. It is the gastronomic capital of South America with outstanding restaurants. Peruvian cuisine is world-renowned. Shopping for locally crafted textle items such as sweaters, rugs, etc is a pleasure. |
| Iquitos - Amazon (11 Hotels options in Iquitos - Amazon) |  | Located on the banks of the Amazon River, Iquitos is now the starting point for cruises down river and trips to the numerous lodges. There are few roads here and the Amazon and its tributaries is the region's lifeline. As it happens in other jungle areas, tourist packages normally include hikes in the rainforest, fishing for piranha, bird watching, visits to native farmers and Indian communities, and night canoe trips in search of alligators. |
| Amazon Cruise |  | Iquitos biggest attraction is the great River Amazon on whose banks the city rises. Perhaps nowhere in the whole of Peru is there a place that provides visitors with a view that can match the one from riverside Malecon Grau with its old tile-hung homes. Thanks to the rubber boom, in 1880 Iquitos began to progress. There are still traces of that era in the Portuguese tiles features in many of the buildings. Dating from this period is the famous Iron House located on the main square. lt is the first prefabricated home to have reached Peru. Designed
and built by Eiffel, the building was acquired by a millionaire who undertook to bring it to Iquitos from Europe, complete with nuts and bolts. A number of Iquitos streets have markets and dry-goods stores offering everything from pretty artificial flowers made from vegetable fiber, to beautiful woven bags and furniture
of cedar or mahogany.
The dense jungle of Peru owes its name to the world's longest and largest river, the Amazon, creator of life, illusions and legends. Navigating its waters is getting in direct contact with the nature and lore of the natives that live there, it is watching the sun setting behind the treetops and marveling at the endless greenery.
The Amazon is an immense slow moving river, at times almost like an ocean, as at certain points it can reach up to 4,000 meters in width. This plus its location in the tropics, make the Peruvian Amazon particularly fertile, holding over 70% of the living species on the planet. This infinity of species of flora and
fauna, many of which are not found anywhere else, live together in totally unique diversity. There are few roads here and the Amazon and its tributaries is the region's lifeline. |
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