Iquitos is the largest rain forest city in Peru and is home to about 371,000 people. Not a village, by any means. Even so, there are no roads to get you there. If you want to visit you'll have to choose between a boat or plane.
The average temperature hovers between 87 and 89 all year-round. The average rainfall is around 113 inches per year. No, that's not a mistake. 113 inches is correct and you don't even want to know what the humidity is like.
A typical dish would be fried plantain, about the same as our banana but not quite so sweet, which is mashed with fried pork fat with chorizo (spicy sausage) on the side. It's tasty, hot and spicy and called Tacacho.
Spanish is the normal language, although, I had no trouble using english. The other language spoken in the area is Quechua which is the language the Inca spoke but the language was spoken in the Andes long before the Inca arrived and it's still in wide use, in the Andes, today.
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