
Voyzo runs 10 tours in Iquitos, covering 5 top attractions. A private tour means your own guide, driver, and vehicle and an itinerary built around your group rather than a fixed bus schedule.
Private Tours
A private tour of the Belén Market, one of the most important markets in the Peruvian Amazon selling local food and traditional medicine, followed by a boat ride into the Floating City, where entire neighborhoods are built on the water.
Private Tours
A private sunset boat ride navigating the Itaya River to its meeting point with the Amazon River, with panoramic views of the Tarapacá Boardwalk and the city of Iquitos from the water as the sun sets over the Loreto region.
Private Tours
A 3-day private jungle tour into the Iquitos Amazon, with a boat and captain exclusively for your own group weaving through Amazonian rivers, staying at a lodge owned and run by the local native community so you see their way of life firsthand alongside real jungle wildlife.
Private Tours
A private 4-day jungle tour from Iquitos with a 100% customizable itinerary, staying at a community-owned eco-lodge and covering piranha fishing, night walks, boat tours, and hiking, with a guide always on hand to point out pink dolphins, caimans, and other wildlife.
Private Tours
A private excursion led by an expert English-speaking local guide, beginning at the Pilpintuwasi Butterfly House and Animal Rescue Center, continuing by boat to the real confluence of the Amazon, Nanay, and Itaya Rivers, and ending at a 250-year-old Lupuna tree considered the spiritual heart of the jungle.
Private Tours
A tour visiting the Kukama, an indigenous community living near the Nanay River, followed by a stop at the Pilpintuwasi butterfly garden and wildlife rescue center, then an afternoon of sport piranha fishing on the Amazon's tributaries.
Private Tours
A private full-day excursion with private transportation to the geographic point where the Marañón and Ucayali Rivers meet to form the Amazon River itself, combined with wildlife watching for pink and gray dolphins and recreational piranha fishing inside Pacaya Samiria National Reserve.
Active & Outdoor
A private multi-day survival expedition in the Peruvian Amazon led by a local guide with over two decades of jungle experience and a background in the Peruvian Army, teaching real ancestral and military survival techniques including obtaining water and food, building shelters, making fire, and jungle navigation.
Active & Outdoor
A multi-day guided sport fishing expedition into the remote village of San Regis just outside Pacaya Samiria National Reserve, casting for peacock bass, piranha, arapaima and other prized Amazon species, with overnight camping under the stars between fishing days.
Active & Outdoor
A private, fully customizable bird watching day trip to the best birding spots within an hour of Iquitos, where more than 900 species have been recorded, with gear available to borrow and an electric vehicle for comfortable, low-impact pickup.
Private tours in Iquitos are matched to your party size — here's the fleet we draw from for this region.
| Vehicle | Model | Capacity | Best For |
|---|---|---|---|
| Private Car / SUV | Toyota Land Cruiser Prado or similar | Up to 5 guests | A private car and driver for couples or small families — comfortable on Lima's streets and capable on the mountain roads to Arequipa, Colca Canyon, and the Sacred Valley. |
| Toyota Hiace Van | Toyota Hiace, air-conditioned | Up to 8 guests | The standard vehicle for private multi-day tours across Peru — comfortable and air-conditioned for the long stretches between Lima, Arequipa, Puno, and Cusco. |
| Mini-Coach | Mercedes-Benz Sprinter or equivalent | Up to 20 guests | For larger groups touring together — a full-size mini-coach with one driver and one itinerary for the whole party. |
Popular stops our guides build into Iquitos itineraries — tap any attraction to learn more.
Belén Market & Floating City
Iquitos
Iquitos' most important traditional market and the adjoining neighborhood of houses built directly on the Amazon's floodwaters, rising and falling with the river's seasonal levels.
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Pilpintuwasi Butterfly House and Animal Rescue Center
Iquitos
A sanctuary near Iquitos dedicated to exotic Amazonian butterflies and rescued local wildlife, including rehabilitated monkeys, sloths, and other animals that could not return to the wild.
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The Confluence of the Amazon, Nanay & Itaya Rivers
Iquitos
The real geographic point near Iquitos where the Amazon, Nanay, and Itaya Rivers meet, visibly marked by the different colors of their waters mixing together — and a favored spot for watching pink river dolphins.
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Pacaya Samiria National Reserve
Iquitos
One of Peru's largest protected areas, spanning more than 2 million hectares of Amazon floodplain forest, home to pink river dolphins, giant river otters, and the massive paiche (arapaima), the largest freshwater fish in the Amazon.
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Casa de Fierro (Iron House)
Iquitos
A prefabricated iron building in downtown Iquitos, long said to have been designed by Gustave Eiffel's firm and shipped to the Amazon during the city's rubber boom era, now one of its most distinctive landmarks.
Iquitos is the largest city in the world with no road connection to the rest of its country, so every tour here involves river boats for at least part of the itinerary.
Lightweight, breathable, quick-dry clothing, a hat, and strong insect repellent make a real difference in the Amazon's heat and humidity.
The Amazon's water level shifts dramatically through the year — roughly December to May is high water, June to November is low water — which changes what's accessible by boat and how dramatic the Floating City looks.
Because most Amazon lodges near Iquitos have no road access, Voyzo's private multi-day tours here include a private boat transfer instead of the usual vehicle pickup.
Check current yellow fever vaccination recommendations for the Peruvian Amazon with a travel clinic well before your trip.
Card acceptance is limited once you're away from larger hotels and tour operators — bring Peruvian soles in cash for markets and smaller vendors.
Iquitos is the largest city in the world with no road access to the outside world, reachable only by boat or plane deep in the Peruvian Amazon. Founded as a Jesuit mission in the 17th century, it grew into a wealthy port during the late 19th and early 20th-century rubber boom, when European-imported architecture — including the famous Casa de Fierro iron building — arrived by river alongside rubber barons who briefly made it one of South America's richest cities.
Today, Iquitos is best known as the gateway to the Peruvian Amazon, where the Amazon, Nanay, and Itaya Rivers meet, and where the Belén Market and its adjoining Floating City offer a direct look at life built around the river's seasonal flood cycle. Voyzo's tours here run differently from a typical city — with boat transfers standing in for road pickups and jungle lodges reached only by river — matching the real, boat-based rhythm of life in the Amazon rather than forcing a car-based itinerary onto a place that simply doesn't have one.
Tell us your group size and dates — we'll take care of the rest.