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Iquitos' legendary market and the real floating neighborhood built on the Amazon.
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.
This tour is exclusively for your own group, including the boat used to reach the Floating City. Belén Market is a real working market, not a staged attraction, and your guide explains the traditional medicines and foods sold there before you head out onto the water.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Pickup from your Iquitos hotel; transfers are typically by tuk-tuk or vehicle given Iquitos' local roads.
Walk through Iquitos' most important traditional market, where Amazonian herbs, foods, and traditional medicine are sold.
See entire neighborhoods built on the water, with houses that rise and fall with the Amazon's seasonal flood levels.
Witness how residents of the Floating City live and work directly on the Amazon.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
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. This tour is exclusively for your own group, including the boat used to reach the Floating City. Belén Market is a real working market, not a staged attraction, and your guide explains the traditional medicines and foods sold there before you head out onto the water.
Iquitos is often described as the largest city in the world with no road connection to the outside; people and goods arrive by air or river. That is why Belén feels like the city's true front door. Goods come off the boats at the river's edge, and the market and the neighborhood that grew around it are shaped by the Amazon's rise and fall rather than by streets.
The Amazon here swings through a big seasonal range, so Belén is built to live with water. Much of the market stands on wooden stilts to stay above the high-water mark, and in the rainy season some of the lower neighborhood is flooded up to the second story, with families moving their belongings upstairs. Closer to the river, some homes are built on floats and simply rise and fall with the level.
That is the difference between the two halves of the tour. The market is the working commercial hub, with fruit, fish, herbs and traditional medicine, while the floating neighborhood shows how daily life runs on boats: fishing for food and income, boats as school buses and taxis, laundry done at the doorstep. Your guide can explain what you are looking at, which matters in a market this dense.
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