Loreto: Ancient Magic in the Amazon

Duration: 5D/4N

Iquitos - Pebas

5D/4N

Difficulty: Easy

Minimum 2 people

Iquitos - Pebas

5D/4N

Dificultad Easy

Minimum 2 people

Description

Route Iquitos/Pebas/ Pucaurquillo/Pebas/Iquitos

Discover the Amazon from Iquitos to the Community of Pucaurquillo in 5 days and 4 nights!

Taking care of nature is taking care of your health, through this reconnection trip in the Amazon, you will have the opportunity to reconnect with you heart, mind, body and nature, just 5 hours from the city of Iquitos on the way you will observe the wonder of the natural world like the Amazon River and all its nature that surrounds it. You will learn from a sustainable experience in the Community of Pucaurquillo about its ancestral culture of ethnic gruopus such as the Murui-Huitoto and Boras, meeting the chambira weavers and the artist in LLanchama. You will receive a singing welcome, ancestral dance and flower necklaces in the community “maloca”. Each traveler shares with a local family who teaches them to live different experiences from how to fish, bathe in the Ampiyacu River, watch the dolphins, hug the tress among other ancestral activities. At the end, you take an ancestral gift handmade by a local entrepreneur.

Important: This trip with purpose in the community of Pucaurquillo in Loreto. It is intended to generate fair work for the families of the Murui-Huitotos and Boras ethnic groups, having the opportunity to learn about the ancestral culture, customs; as well as the Chambira palm tree and at the same time how the women of the area make use of it to develop utilitarian products and market them in the city, having an additional income for the well-being of their families.

Climate

Warm, humid and rainy, with a minimum annual average temperature of 22 ºC and a maximum of 32 ºC, varying exceptionally to a minimum of 17 ºC some days between June and July, and a maximum of 36 ºC between October and January.

Purchase with purpose

10% contributes to socio-environmental projects run by our NGO Red Ecovoluntariado Nassf Latinoamérica.

Itinerary

Reception and transfer to the city of Iquitos. Opportunity to visit the city and learn about the economic boom of rubber exploitation at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th. The legacy of the rubber era can still be appreciated in the city’s architecture and its elegant mansions, including the extravagant Iron House, designed by Eiffel. Accommodation in the city of Iquitos.

Breakfast

Free morning to learn more about the city of Iquitos.

15:00 Transfer to the embarkation port to continue by boat to the district of Pebas (frequency Monday and Wednesday).

17:00 Departure to the district of Pebas. On the way you will observe nature. Opportunity to photograph the Amazon River as a Natural Wonder of the World.

22:00 Arrival at the Port of Pebas and welcome by an indigenous person to continue by motorcycle taxi for about 25 minutes to the Community of Pucaurquillo. Reception and welcome by the Boras ethnic groups. Accommodation in houses of indigenous families.

Breakfast.

Walk around the community of Pucaurquillo to identify flora and collection (optional boat fishing, bathing in the Ampiyacu River). Lunch with the indigenous family.

In the afternoon, knowing the llanchama (bark of the tree) and the art with natural dyes. Meeting in the Maloca (communal place) with the Murui and Boras indigenous women to carry out the experiential workshop “Knowing the Chambira”.Dinner and accommodation in a family home.

4:00 am. Farewall with ancestral songs and transfer to the boarding point in Pebas to continue by boat to Iquitos.

10:00 am. Arrival to the city of Iquitos and transfer to your accommodation.

Breakfast

Opcional: Visit to a Rescue Center for endangered species.

End of our services

Includes:

Reception and transfer from the airport (round trip).
Transfer to the port of departure by boat.
Accommodation in Iquitos.
River transportation Iquitos – Pebas – Iquitos.
River transportation Pebas – Pucaurquillo – Pebas.
Experiential workshops with the use of the Chambira.
Assistance by a local resident in the community of Pucaurquillo (Spanish).
Professional guide in English.
Accommodation in local homes in the Pucaurquillo Community.
Full meals in the Pucaurquillo Community (breakfast, lunch and dinner with local supplies).
2 bottles of water per day.
Handmade ancestral gift.

Not included:

Air tickets Lima- Iquitos – Lima.
Food and beverages not mentioned
Tips.
Additional costs.

Tips for the trip:

Who is suitable to make this trip?

Eco-responsible traveler who likes to learn about ancestral culture and nature.

Aimed at: Couples, families with children over 5 years old, researchers, among others.

Maximum temperature: (36 °C)

Maximum altitude: 106 m.s.n.m.

What to bring:

Identity document

Flashlight

Insect repellent

Comfortable clothes

Long pants

Raincoats

Sunscreen

Gallery

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Why buy with us?

SOCIAL

Opportunity for empowerment and leadership in indigenous and / or vulnerable communities.

ENVIRONMENT

You contribute to the care of nature with a project for the preservation of the environment.

ECONOMIC

You generate fair trade and job opportunities for local people, mostly women from indigenous communities.

PURPOSE

Every time you buy, between 5% to 10% is invested in socio-environmental projects directed by our NGO Red Ecovoluntariado Nassf Latinoamerica.

EMPOWERMENT

Development of the solid waste management project. Rescue of core skills and talents. Community leadership and shared responsibility in sustainable tourism.

ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Delivery of materials for the development of prototypes for your ventures. It is managed and monitored for the creation of formal entrepreneurship and development of responsible tourism in its community.