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New Cusco to Iquitos Flight Announced
Travelers hoping to fit in an Amazon tour and a Machu Picchu trek within the same vacation will be pleased to hear that it just got a whole lot easier. Flight operator LAN has announced the opening of a new route from the isolated river city of Iquitos to Cusco, Peru’s ancient capital and the archeological center of South America.
Visiting an Amazon jungle lodge just got easier
This new route means that travelers can get between Cusco and Iquitos without having to fly through Lima – lowering both journey times and the cost of airfare. Currently, most visitors hoping to visit both locations choose to travel to Puerto Maldonado in Peru’s Southern Amazon, thanks to its close proximity to Cusco. This new flight will enable more people to visit the northern city of Iquitos, the only city in the world that cannot be accessed by road.
Iquitos’ remoteness is its principle attraction. Only accessible by air or river, the city has developed a unique frontier-style charm. Sitting on the banks of the Amazon River, Iquitos has all the bustle and activity of any major city. But the city limits are walled by the wild and largely unexplored rainforest.
The city has a permanently warm, tropical ambiance and is famous for the friendliness of the locals, its tantalizing cuisine of well-seasoned pork, the colossal paiche fish and fried balls of crushed platanos.
Iquitos’ main market is near the district of Belen, a neighborhood that floats on the surface of the muddy waters of the Amazon and which makes an interesting tour on hired motorboats. In the market, curious visitors can browse the incredible variety of produce that comes from the intensely fertile jungle and the indigenous communities that live there, from natural medicines and hallucinogenic potions to the brisk (but illegal) trade in turtle meat and live monkeys.
Both up and down-stream from Iquitos are a number of jungle lodges, from where travelers can venture out into the rainforest and explore the interior. The lodges are extremely comfortable, remote, and provide excellent excursions into the jungle itself.
An alternative way of exploring the river is on an Amazon River Cruise, which can last from between 4 and 8 days on board a luxurious cruiser.
All of these Amazon tour options can now be enjoyed with a short plane journey from the mountain city of Cusco. Contact a Peru For Less travel advisor for more details.
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