5-Day Amazon Jungle Tour from Iquitos with Camping and Survival
From €673 per person
See availability →A 5-day Amazon jungle tour from Iquitos with a local guide: dolphins, caimans, sloths, survival lessons, a camping night and a visit to a native community.
The 5-day Amazon jungle tour from Iquitos starts with a ride to Nauta, said to be the region's oldest city, and a boat trip on the Marañón and Ucayali to the spot where the Amazon is born. It is a good place to see pink and grey dolphins. At the lodge, lunch may be juane, fresh fish or tacacho with cecina, and in the afternoon a wooden boat slips into the creeks for monkeys, sloths, toucans, macaws and herons.
The days that follow mix learning and adventure. An ethnobotanical walk covers medicinal plants and orientation, with survival practice such as finding water and collecting chonta. You swim beside dolphins, take a mineral mud bath on the riverbank and search for caimans, snakes and anacondas on night walks. Dawn canoe rides look for macaws and toucans, and you fish for piranha.
- Survival training and camping
- Harpoon or bow fishing, then a catch cooked and smoked over wood
- Monkey Island and the giant Victoria amazonica water lily
The last day visits a native community to see homes, farming and crafts, then heads back to Iquitos, partly by water and partly by minivan. The guide is local. Non-swimmers, visitors allergic to insects and those with mobility impairments should pick another tour. Travel insurance, tips and personal expenses are extra.