Fodor's Expert Review Port Bellavista Nanay

About 3 km (1½ miles) north of downtown Iquitos, at the end of Avenida La Marina, is this muddy beehive of activity with a large open-air market where vendors sell everything from jungle fruits to grilled suri (palm grubs). Boats of all shapes and sizes populate the riverbank and seedy bars are perched over the water on wooden posts. You can hire a boat to take you to the Bora and Yagua Indian villages, near San Andrés, or the Pilpintuwasi Butterfly Farm.