Comments (0) Almost every city in South America has an outdoor market where you can buy almost everything. 
Clothes, bread, meat, fish, spices, veggies, and anything else a normal person uses. The Belen market is the best in all of south America. Yeah, it’s a bold call, but it’s true.
On the edge of Iquitos, on the edge of the Amazon river, is the Belen district. Actually, it extends well 
into the river. This neighborhood starts in the river floodplain, where the lower floor of every building is flooded each wet season, and extends into the river itself in rows of floating houses. This portion of the Amazon actually rises up to 15 meters each rainy season, so everything is adapted to this huge change. The schools, churches, and public buildings are all on stilts, and there are two floating bars. There are also restaurant boats, a floating gas station, and the equivalent of a floating mini-mart. The only downside is that each house, or row of houses, has its own floating bathroom, so everyone is shitting in the river next to where they catch fish and wash their clothes.
One of my goals for this trip was to see the Amazon Jungle. I wanted to travel by boat, carry a
machete, see the wildlife. I wanted the total National Geographic experience. Well, we got what we were looking for.
There are only two ways to travel into the Peruvian Amazon: fly or catch a ride downriver on a cargo 
ship from Pucallpa. If you’ve got the time to take the boat here’s what you do:
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