Iquitos, Peru – Late afternoon is the busiest time in the muddy harbour of Iquitos in the Amazon basin, in the northeast of Peru. Men haul stacks of bottled soda and kilos of rice on their backs, ...

A beautiful city that lies in the middle of a jungle is the largest in the world without road access. Iquitos in Peru is in the heart of the South American Amazon with a huge population of 420,000.

A border town that you can only reach by plane or riverboat, Iquitos is the gateway to Peru's Amazonian wilderness and/or the gateway to the outside world, depending on which way you're traveling.

Before we begin, a disclaimer: In Iquitos, Peru, your correspondent did not consume the shamanic hallucinogen ayahuasca. You may be forgiven for thinking I did when I describe candy-coloured carriages ...

The only synagogue in Iquitos, housed in a mattress shop, has become the last bastion for the Jews who remain as hundreds abandon the town for Israel The sudden barrage of a tropical downpour on a tin ...