Avatar Amazon Lodge

Amazon Basin


Avatar makes no claims to guarantee you the best wildlife sightings: instead, in pleasant secondary jungle you can stay in comfort in well-appointed bungalows, monkey around on the superb canopy tower, whoosh through the trees on ziplines or splash about in a lovely pool. The lodge is under an hour's boat journey downriver from Iquitos; the office is in Iquitos.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Amazon Basin attractions

1. Historical Ships Museum

13.28 MILES

Moored below Plaza Castilla is the diverting Historical Ships Museum, on a 1906 Amazon riverboat, the gorgeously restored three-deck Ayapua. The…

2. Pilpintuwasi Butterfly Farm

13.47 MILES

Ostensibly, the Pilpintuwasi Butterfly Farm is a conservation and breeding center for Amazonian butterflies. Butterflies aplenty there certainly are,…

3. Malecón

13.48 MILES

The sight of Iquitos' sophisticated riverside walkway, edged by swanky bars and restaurants and yet cut off from the rest of the world by hundreds of…

4. Casa de Fierro

13.56 MILES

Every guidebook mentions the ‘majestic’ Casa de Fierro (Iron House), designed by Gustave Eiffel (of Eiffel Tower fame). It was made in Paris in 1860 and…

6. Museum of Indigenous Amazon Cultures

13.66 MILES

This intuitively presented museum takes you through the traits, traditions and beliefs of the tribes of the Amazon Basin, with a focus on the Peruvian…

7. Belén Mercado

14.21 MILES

At the southeast end of town is the floating shantytown of Belén, consisting of scores of huts, built on rafts, which rise and fall with the river. During…

8. Laguna Quistacocha

21.13 MILES

This lake, 15km south of Iquitos, is served by minibus (S2) several times an hour from near Plaza 28 de Julio (corner of Bermúdez and Moore), as well as…