Iquitos

The city of Iquitos is located on the bank of Amazon, in the centre of the Peruvian jungle. Various tourist routes on a selva from here begin: foot walks accompanied by the guide, supervision over birds, monkeys, butterflies and other representatives of local fauna; travel by a boat, fishing, and as visiting of communities of wood Indians.

Iquitos is the centre of Amazonian medicine. Tropical woods surrounding a city - the present pantry of herbs. On their basis produce many modern medicines proved the efficiency.

In Iquitos there are some centres of national medicine where treat such heavy diseases as a cancer, a hepatitis With, a diabetes. Medical grasses flown down from all Peruvian Amazonia are on sale in specialised numbers of the local market. Here it is possible to get, and to take with itself the ready preparations applied to treatment of the majority of known illnesses.

Sights of the city of Iquitos and окресностей

Малекон Тарапака It is located on border of Iquitos, on the bank of the river of Amazon
The quay constructed in blossoming of a rubber epoch. The excellent panoramic kind of Amazon and port Bethlehem therefrom opens.

Museum Амазонико In a museum the collection of 80 sculptures of various tribes of the Peruvian Amazon, and also Brazil and Venezuela full-scale is exposed. In being in museum territory the Historical National Museum выставленны 40 photos of Iquitos of the beginning of the last century.

The national reserve Alpauajo – Мишана is located all in 20 km from Iquitos, where there is the greatest quantity of various trees on hectare (nearby 300), the greatest quantity of reptiles (140 kinds). Besides, here it is possible to meet 28 kinds of animals on the verge of destruction, such as, a nutria, a predatory eagle, a beautiful red monkey, a black peacock and a huge battleship.

River port Nauta is in 100 km on the south from Iquitos. Here at a short distance it is possible to see merge of two big rivers Maranon and Ucayali, a place of origin of the majestic river of Amazon, the deepest in the world which proceeds throughout 6 788 km and runs into Atlantic ocean.

The national reserve Pakaja - Самириа is opposite to port Nauta. In its territory of 2 million hectares of lakes and small lagoons, bogs and damp soil. Here it is possible to meet ламантинов (a sea cow), a pink dolphin, small черепашек (тортуга чарапа) and an anaconda. It is the biggest flooded wood of Amazonia