Stemming from the heaving "lungs of our planet," there is a small city that sits at the confluence of the Amazon and the Nanay River. Iquitos, a remote outpost encased by thick jungle foliage ...

The Treehouse Lodge, located south of Iquitos, Peru, on a tributary of the Amazon River called the Yarapa River, is a network of 12 tree houses connected by wood bridges with foot and hand cables ...

Yet, Iquitos is the main transport hub of the jungle, from here people and goods travel to communities along the river banks in the Amazon forests. It takes nine days of travel upstream on the ...

The bridge is part of a federal highway project to connect Iquitos, in Peru's northeast ... over the Nanay River, a tributary of the Amazon River. Indigenous leaders say the communities along ...

IQUITOS, Peru — We have to get our entrance stamp for ... It’s basically a row of wooden shacks with corrugated iron roofs by the Amazon River. Workers load kilos and kilos of fish into a container ...

There are also a number of tours along the river and into ... Wildlife in the Amazon includes monkeys, dolphins, sloths, toucans, turtles, frogs and piranhas. Iquitos has a tropical rainforest ...

You're more likely to pass a canoe laden with yucca on its way to nearby Nauta or Iquitos ... the river appears to consume the jungle, it also creates new routes from which to see it. The Amazon ...