More than half of Peru is Amazon rainforest — a green immensity of rivers, oxbow lakes and canopy that holds some of the greatest biodiversity on the planet. Two gateways open it up: the road-linked reserves of the south, and the great river city of Iquitos in the roadless north.
Manu and Tambopata in the south
From Puerto Maldonado, Madre de Dios gives access to the Manu and Tambopata reserves — canopy towers, oxbow-lake paddling, giant otters and macaw clay licks from comfortable jungle lodges.
Iquitos and the northern rivers
In Loreto, riverboat expeditions set out from Iquitos into the vast Pacaya-Samiria reserve, deep-forest lodges and Amazon tributaries reachable only by water. Open the Book here tab for dates.
