Floating City of Belen Tours

You will start your tour in downtown Iquitos, then you will visit the 28 de Julio Square, a recreational area that exhibits in its center the old locomotive that pulled Iquitos first train. Next, you will visit the local Palace of Justice and then you will go to the main market that supplies the city with a great variety of Amazonian fruit, fresh water fish and local products, a feast of colors, smells and tates. Then you wll go to the Iron House, located on the Main Square, designed by Gustave Eiffel. It is an old structure built in 1887, considered the first prefabricated house in the Americas, which shows the economic splendor during the Rubber Boom. You will finally visit the Belén riparian hamlet, a community of Iquitos in which the wooden houses built on beams and columns are elevated some meters above the ground during the dry season, while in the rainy season they seem to float and its inhabitants have to cross theflooded street in canoes.

Iquitos is better-known for being the entrance to the Peruvian Amazon. However, with this guided Belén neighborhood tour, you can see a different side to the popular port city. Pass through the local marketplace with your private guide, before venturing to the Itaya River to see the labyrinthine, floating neighborhood known as La Venecia Loretana.

Holidays only for one day in Iquitos? Are you looking for an experiential tour with total security but do not have much time? Meet the reality of a city that forms on the river. Live the true Amazon adventure with us!

We will walk to the populous Bethlehem Market where you can find the most varied products, from fresh fish, to passing meals, raccoons or cigars, lucky charms, love lotions, medicinal preparations and many exotic drinks of them with curious names that honor their aphrodisiac properties, do you dare to try them?!. Then we will go to the neighborhood of Belén Bajo, a spicy and populous neighborhood where you will live the deep Iquitos, we will travel its streets until we reach the banks of the Itaya River where we will navigate between the famous floating houses or rafts. Which in times of rising of the river float forming the so-called Venice Loretana. Feel totally calm and safe, our specialized guides will give you the best experience in this sabrosón neighborhood bathed by the Itaya River.

This private, full-day cruise on the Amazon River and Itaya River takes you where cars can't go. Admire views from a stunning vista point, hike into the rain forest, visit two traditional communities that still live along the banks of the rivers, and more. Breakfast and lunch are included to fuel a full day.