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Originally Posted by pickypalla
other possibility could be heading to manaus and going by boat to leticia. but you will probably know leticia is a dead end city. you need to fly out from there.
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To get to Manus typically means riding BR-319, ~400 miles from Humaitá to the banks of the Amazon across from Manus. That's ~400 miles of mostly dirt or mud (depending on the time of year), without lodging or gas stations. A hard road for sure and one that is on my list.  There are other ways to get to Manus, but that's the one I dream about.
According to this website it is possible to find a boat from Iquitos to Yurimaguas 3 to 6 days. There are roads toward Lima from Yurimaguas, but the road could be hard to brutal. And the areas deep in the Peruvian Amazon are populated with a few cocoa farmers and they aren't tourist friendly.
http://www.go2peru.com/peru_guide/iquitos/how_to_arrive.htm
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