ikitos.com Tourism Pages

Welcome to Iquitos!

Let ikitos.com be your guide to the Amazon Rainforest’s best kept secret!

Visitors who rent a boat to travel to destinations like Pilpintuwasi, Monkey Island and the Caiman Farm, are sometimes unknowingly taken to one of the illegal serpentarios instead. The owners of these places pay handsome commissions to the boatmen, to whom you just paid a handsome fee as well, while the owners of Pilpintuwasi, Monkey Island and the Caiman Farm do not.

Apart from being illegal operations that exploit animals -you can read about it here- they also grossly overcharge visitors. A visit to Quistococha costs just 3 soles, the Caiman Farm charges 5 soles.

Carmelita01

Carmelita, a baby wooley monkey that was confiscated recently by INRENA.

Read about it here!

But serpentarios like Las Boas are known to charge tourists as much as 50 soles per person.

Avoid being ripped off, disappointed and frustrated, as well as cheated out of the visit you really wanted. Avoid supporting crimes against nature with your money. It is always wise to travel with a reliable, knowledgable guide, who knows where to go, whose services to use and how much things cost. But in any case, tell your boatman; “NO serpentarios! NO Las Boas!”