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Once you begin scratching the surface, you discover there are so many things to do and see while waiting for your boat out of Leticia. Of course, there are tours into the jungle, visiting Parque Nacional Natural Amaracayu and Isla de los Monos. On the Brazilian and Peruvian sides of the rivers are jungle lodges where you can hang for a few days. You can canoe or drop a fishing line in the tributaries or at Lagos Yahuarcacas, where you can see the world’s largest water lily. In Leticia is Museo Etnográfico del Hombre Amazónico and free weekly movies at the university. On the road to Tarapacá are Serpentario Armero-Guayabal, AmaZOOnas and the Tikuna and Huitoto “kilometer” villages. Puerto Nariño and Lago Tarapoto, home of the pink dolphin, are just a few hours away.
Slinking through the dense underbrush, coiling around the boughs of trees, slithering through the rivers bathing roots are creatures whose ...
Dosel is the term used for the highest part of the tree canopy, usually about 35-40 meters (115-130 feet). At ...
Isla de los Micos (Island of the Monkeys) is a standard stop on tours of the Amazon. Thirty-five kilometers (21 ...
Parque Nacional Natural Amacayacu is one of the most easily (and safely) accessible jungle national parks. Its 293,500 hectares on ...
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