2-Day Amazon Lodge Tour from Iquitos with Piranha Fishing

Fishing sets this 2-day Amazon lodge tour from Iquitos apart: on day two you try for piranhas and other local fish, and can have your catch for lunch. The first day comes before that: after hotel or airport pickup you leave from the Bellavista Nanay port, where you discover local cuisine such as suri, the palm weevil larvae, and then sail the Nanay River to where it meets the Amazon, a good place for pink and grey dolphins.

You learn the traditions and dances of the Yagua tribe and visit Monkey Island. After lunch at the lodge you meet local wildlife at the animal rescue center, and as evening falls you sample Amazonian aphrodisiac cocktails before dinner and a nighttime wildlife excursion.

Day two starts at dawn with birdwatching, then breakfast, fishing and a swim in the Amazon. After lunch the boat heads back to Iquitos and the tour ends at the operator's main office.

• Local guide in your chosen language and jungle accommodation
• Entrance tickets, river and land transport, meals on excursion days
• Rubber boots are not included