A border town that you can only reach by plane or riverboat, Iquitos is the gateway to Peru's Amazonian wilderness and/or the gateway to the outside world, depending on which way you're traveling.

Shortly after finishing my second year of medical school I have come to Iquitos, Peru. With a population of nearly half a million, it is the world's largest city inaccessible by road. Iquitos is ...

Iquitos, Peru – Late afternoon is the busiest time in the muddy harbour of Iquitos in the Amazon basin, in the northeast of Peru. Men haul stacks of bottled soda and kilos of rice on their backs, ...

Vendors and moto-taxi drivers gather near an unfinished portion of a federal highway project on the Nanay bridge in Iquitos, Peru, Sunday, May 26, 2024. The project in an untouched area of the ...

IQUITOS, Peru -The first thing most visitors notice is the buzzing. Just about every street in this Amazon port city is filled with the noise of motocars. A cross between a motorcycle and a rickshaw, ...

The humidity outside the airport in Iquitos had already slapped me like I was a newborn when the buzz of the city’s activity hit me like a left-right combination on the receiving end of a boxing match ...

For one serene hour, we were human cargo in a world of pink. The sky was Persian rose; the river, reflecting it, ran ruby as it flowed as smooth as glass. We forgot the world as we stood on the roof ...