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Iquitos, Upper Amazon

The Peruvian Amazon is one of the world’s most diverse ecosystems, and Iquitos is the world’s largest city that cannot be reached by road. Instead, people follow the living river into and out of this jungle metropolis, a colonial city surrounded by companies of parrots, armies of frogs and barrels of monkeys. Whether it’s the floating marketplace of Belén, the vibrant riverfront Malecón or the rubber-baron memorabilia in the Museum of Historic Ships aboard the 1906 riverboat Ayapua, Iquitos exists with the rise and fall of Amazon’s waters.