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Visit the floating neighborhood of Belen

Belén sits on the banks of the Amazon River. Its the floating suburb of Iquitos.

Residents have built their houses on wooden stilts or tethered rafts

In times when the river rises, mooring cables keep the rafts from floating away and everyone moves upstairs. Most people in Belen fish for a living, but when the river falls they use the surrounding flood plain to grow crops.

All year round the river remains the main means of transport. People get around in boats or canoes.
The market is the main attraction, a center for jungle food, medicines and bizarre herbal remedies, where you can buy a piranha for lunch or sample an exotic potion brewed by a shaman.

After wandering through the stalls canoes can take you on a tour of the canals, for a glimpse of a life lived on the waters of the Amazon.

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