The Iquitos News

and Iquitos Travel Guide

The Iquitos News and Travel Guide is an up to date survival guide that fills a niche that other travel guides such as the Rough Guide and Lonely Planet fail to fill.   The Iquitos Travel Guide provides trekkers with up to date information, weather forecasts, street maps of Iquitos and geographic maps of the surrounding area.  We provide unbiased information that gives visitors the ability to plan their own trip without paying for the services of an Iquitos tourist guide.  Using the tips included in the Iquitos News, the traveler can visit areas not normally seen by tourists who use the services of an Iquitos tour guide or agency.  For example to visit native Amazonian tribes, it is best to deal directly with the indigenous people in order to avoid their being exploited by tour guides.  For more tips and information on Amazon native tribes, visit www.amazon-indians.org. 

Use the Iquitos News to learn about Iquitos, its natives, and the Amazon Rainforest.  Included are articles on the history of Iquitos, the Belen Street Market, Pasaje Paquito (medicinal plant market), Amazon legends (e.g. the legends of the pink dolphin and the victoria regia), myths, and the plants and animals of the Amazon Rainforest (e.g. the hoatzin and capybara).   Check out the Traveler's Information page to answer basic questions on Iquitos and learn tips on surviving in Iquitos.  In addition, the Iquitos Travel Guide includes Iquitos tourist information on money exchange, food, health, shopping, and security.  Additional information on the rural areas surrounding Iquitos may be found in the In and Around Iquitos webpage.  Furthermore, this webpage provides excellent advice on exploring the City of Iquitos and its various attractions, museums, and galleries.  

If you are not familiar with the local cuisine in Iquitos, you are in for a real treat.   The Iquitos Travel Guide article on the Ten Best Restaurants in Iquitos reveals hidden gems where you can have a world class meal for about $2.  Amazonian food is unique in that it is an exotic blend with origins from Peru, Brazil and Colombia.  In addition, please check out our new hotel guide for Iquitos giving you tips on the best places to stay in the City of Iquitos. 

Want to find out how the current weather is in Iquitos?  Then check out our new Iquitos Weather Forecast Page.  Here you will find a 7-day forecast for Iquitos, Peru, including predicted high and low temperatures, probabilities of precipitation, cloud cover and wind conditions.  This current weather report is updated every 30 minutes.  To complement our Iquitos Weather Forecast Webpage, we have added the Iquitos News Environmental Newsfeed.  Like the weather forecast page, this dynamic RSS newsfeed is constantly updated, bringing up-to-the-minute news that focuses on environmental issues affecting the Amazon and the world. 

A good place to learn about native plants and animals of the Amazon jungle is the Quistococha Zoo.  In addition, please read our articles on plants and animals of the Amazon Rain Forest.  If you are a sportsman, check out the Fishing in the Amazon webpage for information on peacock bass (tucanaré) fishing.

In order to assist travelers in South America who are taking the lesser traveled routes to Iquitos, we will soon feature articles on how to get to Iquitos from Ecuador via the Napo River.  For traveling in Ecuador on your way to Iquitos, please check out the "Night Bus to Coca" article to learn just how adventurous traveling with the local Amazonian people can be. 

To find Iquitos tourist information on Amazon native tribes, please visit www.amazon-indians.org.  Here you will find  a source of  videos and photos of the native people of Iquitos and the Amazon Rainforest.  Amazon-Indians is an educational resource on the indigenous people of the Amazon River Basin.  Included are geographic maps, tribal legends, indigenous ceremonies, and descriptions of various Amazon tribes.  Diverse Amazon tribes are included, specifically the Matis, Ticuna, Matsés (Mayoruna), Shipibo, Bora, Marubo, Huaorani, and Yagua native Amazonian tribes.