Amazon Basin - Lonely Planetmedia.lonelyplanet.com/shop/pdfs/peru-9-amazon-basin... · 2016. 2....
2
ELEV 0-1800M Best Places to Eat ¨ Burgos’s Restaurante (p444) ¨ Al Frio y al Fuego (p480) ¨ Amazon Bistro (p481) ¨ Belén Mercado (p480) Best Places to Stay ¨ Hacienda Concepción (p454) ¨ Manu Paradise Lodge (p459) ¨ Carolina Egg Gasthaus (p466) ¨ La Casa Fitzcarraldo (p479) ¨ Samiria Ecolodge (p487) When to Go Jan Rising tem- peratures and water levels; a perfect time to visit the waterfalls near La Merced. Apr & May Rains subside, heralding courtship season for many birds. Jun The rainy season ends: cue the jungle’s best parties, like debauched San Juan in Iquitos. -10/14 F D N O S A J J M A M J Iquitos °C/°F Temp Rainfall inches/mm 10/50 0/32 30/86 40/104 20/68 0 4/100 8/200 12/300 Amazon Basin Why Go? The best-protected tract of the world’s most biodiverse forest, the strange, sweltering, seductive country-with- in-a-country that is Peru’s Amazon Basin, is changing. Its sheer vastness and impenetrability has long protected its indigenous communities and wildlife from external eyes. Tribes exist here that have never had contact with outside civilization. More plant types flourish in one rainforest hec- tare than in any European country, and fauna is so fantastic it defies the most imaginative sci-fi comic. But as the 21st century encroaches on this expanse of wilderness, exploitation of the forest’s abundant natural re- sources threatens to irreversibly damage it. Sure, the Peruvi- an Amazon offers phenomenal wildlife-spotting, forays into untamed forest from the jungle’s best lodges and raucous city life, but it also begs for protection. Remember that as, forging through it by rough road and raging river, you’ll feel like the explorers who first brought attention to this region. Includes ¨ Puerto Maldonado .....440 Parque Nacional Manu ..........................460 La Merced & San Ramón ................ 462 Pucallpa ..................... 466 Yurimaguas ................. 471 Reserva Nacional Pacaya-Samiria.......... 473 Iquitos ........................ 473 ©Lonely Planet Publications Pty Ltd
Transcript of Amazon Basin - Lonely Planetmedia.lonelyplanet.com/shop/pdfs/peru-9-amazon-basin... · 2016. 2....
-
ELEV 0-1800M
Best Places to Eat
¨ Burgos’s Restaurante (p444)
¨ Al Frio y al Fuego (p480)
¨ Amazon Bistro (p481)
¨ Belén Mercado (p480)
Best Places to Stay
¨ Hacienda Concepción (p454)
¨ Manu Paradise Lodge (p459)
¨ Carolina Egg Gasthaus (p466)
¨ La Casa Fitzcarraldo (p479)
¨ Samiria Ecolodge (p487)
When to Go
Jan Rising tem-peratures and water levels; a perfect time to visit the waterfalls near La Merced.
Apr & May Rains subside, heralding courtship season for many birds.
Jun The rainy season ends: cue the jungle’s best parties, like debauched San Juan in Iquitos.
-10/14F DNOSAJJMAMJ
Iquitos°C/°F Temp Rainfall inches/mm
10/50
0/32
30/86
40/104
20/68
0
4/100
8/200
12/300
Amazon BasinWhy Go?The best-protected tract of the world’s most biodiverse forest, the strange, sweltering, seductive country-with-in-a-country that is Peru’s Amazon Basin, is changing. Its sheer vastness and impenetrability has long protected its indigenous communities and wildlife from external eyes. Tribes exist here that have never had contact with outside civilization. More plant types flourish in one rain forest hec-tare than in any European country, and fauna is so fantastic it defies the most imaginative sci-fi comic.
But as the 21st century encroaches on this expanse of wilderness, exploitation of the forest’s abundant natural re-sources threatens to irreversibly damage it. Sure, the Peruvi-an Amazon offers phenomenal wildlife-spotting, forays into untamed forest from the jungle’s best lodges and raucous city life, but it also begs for protection. Remember that as, forging through it by rough road and raging river, you’ll feel like the explorers who first brought attention to this region.
Includes ¨Puerto Maldonado .....440Parque Nacional Manu ..........................460La Merced & San Ramón ................462Pucallpa .....................466Yurimaguas .................471Reserva Nacional Pacaya-Samiria .......... 473Iquitos ........................ 473
©Lonely Planet Publications Pty Ltd
-
AmA
zon
BAsin Am
Azo
n BAsin
AmA
zon
BAsin A
MA
zo
N B
AS
IN H
IgH
LIgH
TS
439
AmazonasRíoonasazAmRío
Rio Juruá
DE DIOSMADRE
PUNOICA
LORETO
SAN MARTÍN
UCAYALI
APURÍMACAYACUCHO
CUZCO
HUANCAVELICA
JUNÍN
LIMA
PASCO
HUÁNUCO
Puerto Bermúdez
PascoCerro de
Cruzeiro do Sul
Boca Manu
MaldonadoPuerto
LIMA Huancayo
AbancayCuzco
Ica
Ayacucho
Huancavelica
Junín
Huánuco
Moyobamba
Puerto Ocopa
Mazamari
Orellana
Zungaro
Ciudad Constitución
LeticiaTabatinga
Paracas
Santa Rosa
Caballococha
Contamaná
Requena
Nauta
Lagunas
Bellavista
LamasRioja
Tarapoto
Juanjuí
Iberia
IñapariSepahua
Miraflores
Quinua
Chilca
Tocache Nuevo
Cajatambo
Chiquián
Aguaytía
Atalaya
Satipo
La Merced
Tarma
ShintuyaQuillabamba
Pisco
Santo Tomás
Yarinacocha
BreuPuerto
IncaPuerto
de SisaSan José
ConstantBenjamin
Tingo María
RamónSan
BrasilAssis
PicchuMachu
ChemillénYanachaga-
Parque Nacional
Bahuaja-SoneneParque Nacional
(6384m)AusangateNevado
yaliU
ca
Río
Huallaga
Río
Ucaya
li
Río
ónañMarRí
oRío
Yavar
i
BOLIVIA
PERU
COLOMBIA
BRAZIL
BR364
28
326
16
5
16
5
324
20
1
Reserva Nacional
Pucallpa
Iquitos
Pozuzo
Pevas
Yurimaguas
Oxapampa
Tambopata
Pacaya-SamiriaNacionalReserva
ManuNacionalParque
0 200 km0 100 miles
1 Traveling overland through a smorgasbord of Peruvian scenery via mountains, cloud forest and jungle to Parque Nacional Manu (p460). 2 Spotting animals and birds at the upper echelons of the Río Tambopata (p447) and the Reserva Nacional Pacaya-Samiria (p473).
3 Discovering the central Amazon’s thriving german heritage in Oxapampa (p465) and nearby Pozuzo (p465). 4 Swinging in a hammock on a riverboat trip from Pucallpa (p466) or Yurimaguas (p471) to Iquitos (p473). 5 Rising early for a trip to Peru’s premier jungle market
in the floating district of Belén (p476) in Iquitos.
6 Tucking into the wondrous and often downright weird eating scene of Iquitos (p480).
7 Admiring world-class art in the remote rainforest at the gallery of Francisco grippa in Pevas (p486).
Amazon Basin Highlights
